Kamala Harris’ Presidential campaign got off to the perfect start.
The sailing won’t be as smooth moving forward.
Now Kamala Harris is dealing with one ticking bomb that spells doom in November.
Internal tensions growing in Kamala Harris’ campaign
Vice President Kamala Harris had the dream start to her Presidential campaign after her late entrance into the race.
She had everything go her way for the first month of her campaign after an unprecedented propaganda effort from the media boosted her.
But things are going to get more challenging for her with the final sprint to Election Day.
Kamala has to navigate having the most unusual campaign setup in American history.
Normally, a Presidential candidate hires their staff and runs the campaign out of a location of their choosing.
But Kamala didn’t have time to build a national campaign from scratch with her late entrance into the Presidential race.
She had no choice but to use the campaign apparatus that President Joe Biden built for his re-election race.
Kamala is using the staffers that Biden hired.
And she’s running her campaign out of Wilmington, Delaware in Biden’s home state, because there was no time to pick up shop and move everything.
Kamala has the campaign team behind her she was stuck with, not necessarily the one she would have picked under normal circumstances.
And that’s leading to some tensions behind the scenes.
Various factions feuding in Kamala’s campaign
Kamala made some of her own hires from her failed 2020 Presidential campaign, like Ian Sams who was the White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations.
Democrat strategist David Plouffe, who served as former President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, was brought on as a senior advisor to the campaign.
Axios reported that the “good vibes” of Kamala’s campaign are hiding the tensions between the Biden faction, her advisors, and Obama alumni who were thrown together.
Kamala is running a “Frankenstein” campaign with multiple groups inside it competing for power.
Six people inside the campaign told Axios that it is “a large and at times unwieldy team” with “internal worries about cohesiveness when inevitable stumbles arise.”
Mike Donilon, who ran messaging for Biden’s campaign, bailed and went back to the White House after Kamala took over.
“The entanglement of these different entities has led to many people feeling a real lack of role clarity,” a Kamala campaign source said.
There’s a lack of leadership coming from the Vice President about who is in charge.
As a result, confusion has set in inside the campaign about who is calling the shots.
“Who is the first among equals with the vice president?” a campaign source wondered.
The Biden loyalists in the campaign thought the Obama staffers were critical of the work they had done.
Kamala’s campaign hopes that because of the short nature of the campaign, any internal dissension can be set aside.
But when the campaign deals with inevitable challenges, tensions could flare up from these competing power centers inside a powder keg waiting to explode.
