Harris gets her cavalry: Top group plans to spend $10 million-plus to boost her

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glad to see this.
it is going to be an ugly election season IMHO.





Harris gets her cavalry: Top group plans to spend $10 million-plus to boost her

EMILY’s List has big plans to defend the vice president before the election.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/11/kamala-harris-emilys-list-pac-00101400


Kamala Harris boards Air Force Two.

The investment in support of a sitting vice president is politically unprecedented — and it reflects the lack of broader efforts that have been made to date to help bolster Kamala Harris. | Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

By Eugene Daniels

06/11/2023 07:00 AM EDT

One of the nation’s most powerful political groups tasked with helping female candidates is readying a massive investment to improve Kamala Harris’ public standing.

EMILY’s List, the political action committee whose aim is to elect female candidates supportive of abortion rights, says it will be spending “tens of millions of dollars” to defend and prop up the vice president during the 2024 election.

Such an investment in support of a sitting vice president is politically unprecedented. And it reflects the lack of broader efforts that have been made to date to help bolster the vice president amid persistently low approval ratings.

It also underscores the growing recognition that Harris may play an outsized role in what is sure to be a tough election. Republican presidential candidates have made it clear they will be using the specter of a Harris presidency as a way to hurt Joe Biden’s chances at reelection, particularly by raising questions about his age and capacity for the job.

“She is a boogeyman that Republicans can [and will] use when it comes to pushing their message,” a senior Republican strategist said, speaking anonymously to discuss election season strategy frankly. “A President Harris would be even worse than a President Biden because she campaigned as a progressive fighter and had to moderate herself when she became Biden’s running mate. And to be completely frank, she’s smart. She’s an accomplished prosecutor. She was a United States senator. And she does have the resume to match.”.........................