Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris was set up “to fail” by President Joe Biden's refusal to clear the way for a Democratic primary and instead pass the torch to his vice president with just over 100 days to pitch herself to the American public, one expert said Friday night on "Overtime" with "Real Time" host Bill Maher.

“When Biden refused to step aside and not run again, he was supposed to be that bridge, he backed off on that promise due to arrogance and then he drops out after a catastrophic debate performance and they set Kamala Harris up to fail,” said Sarah Isgur, a senior editor at The Dispatch and former director of the Office of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Vice President Kamala Harris tried to buck up the spirits of dejected staffers in a post-election call this week — but it left many angry and even further disillusioned.

Axios reported the call with team members came after Harris delivered a powerful concession speech Wednesday, emphasizing her commitment to the peaceful transition of power in contrast to the January 6 plot four years previously.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is pointing fingers at President Joe Biden as Democrats look for someone to blame for Donald Trump winning the 2024 election.

Speaking to the New York Times Friday, Pelosi complained: “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race.”

Kamala Harris squandered the many chances she had on the campaign trail to distance herself from the unpopular incumbent president who she replaced on the Democratic ticket, and that calculation likely contributed to her bruising election night loss, a Washington Post columnist said Thursday.

“I think we will be litigating this and relitigating this for many years to come,” Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell told CNN’s Abby Phillip Thursday during an appearance on “NewsNight.”

A marketing professor at New York University who predicted the election would be a referendum on each party's "aspirational vision of masculinity" took a victory lap on CNN on Thursday night and said people like Elon Musk are the epitome of such.

Scott Galloway told anchor Anderson Cooper that Musk sends satellites to space, builds cars, and is "magnificently wealthy," "provocative" and "entertaining."

The chair of the Democratic National Committee has had it with the President Joe Biden blame game, he made clear Thursday.

"This is straight up BS," Jaime Harrison wrote on X Thursday afternoon. "Biden was the most-pro worker President of my lifetime."

The time has come to channel your inner Lysistrata, cat ladies, an enraged political analyst has declared.

Salon's Amanda Marcotte on Thursday issued a rallying cry to the woman scorned as "sociopaths" by Vice President-elect J.D. Vance (R-OH), arguing the time has come to stop having sex with his voters.

Recriminations are going on behind the scenes between aides to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, as they try to work out whether there is blame to be assigned for Donald Trump's victory on Tuesday night, CNN White House correspondent Kayla Tausche told Anderson Cooper.

In particular, she said, there are arguments over whether it was really the best move to force Biden out of the race in the summer, or whether it was in fact his unpopularity casting a shadow over the whole race to begin with.

A senior adviser to Donald Trump said Tuesday that while he sympathized with what Vice President Kamala Harris is “going through," he was disappointed that her concession speech didn’t include a pledge to work with the president-elect to achieve his “mandate for change.”

“This is a tough speech to give, I mean I can definitely feel for Kamala Harris and what she’s going through,” Jason Miller said on Fox News shortly after Harris delivered a powerful concession speech in Washington, D.C.

Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) broke down after listening to Vice President Kamala Harris' concession speech at Howard University on Wednesday afternoon.

The two women served in the Senate for a few years, and the elder stateswoman expressed her pride in the life that Harris came from and what she accomplished.

Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a powerful concession speech Wednesday afternoon as she pledged to honor the peaceful transition of power — even as she vowed never to concede the "fight that fueled this campaign."

Speaking in Washington, D.C., and dressed in all black, Harris delivered a 12-minute speech to a tearful audience that erupted into chants of "Ka-ma-la!"