Ian Hatchett at Breitbart found NBC political analyst Chuck Todd is still showing up with hot takes on the campaign. In a deep dive into the NBC News Now streaming channel, on Wednesday’s edition MTP Now, Todd spun furiously that Kamala Harris benefits politically from the fact that “She doesn’t have that many fingerprints on the Biden administration” because “the Biden people did ice her out a lot, didn’t want her involved.”
It's bizarre to claim that you can't blame the sitting vice president for anything the president did, like she spent the whole term sitting in the VP mansion twiddling her fingers. Todd wouldn't try to argue that Mike Pence couldn't campaign in this cycle as "not having many fingerprints" in the Trump White House, but this is the DNC spin.
Current Meet the Press host Kristen Welker and Todd were discussing the "double hater" voters -- who disliked both Biden and Trump -- and talked up how the left-leaning double haters were warming up to Harris, just the way that NBC likes it.
TODD: I am getting more and more convinced than ever that we could actually be seeing essentially the mirror image of 2016, where Trump is the incumbent who’s not in office, just like Hillary was the incumbent who was not in office, and Harris is something new -- "we haven’t tried that." Trump was, oh, "we hadn’t tried that." And that, right now, I think is probably her best asset.
Neither Welker nor Todd discussed how Biden gave her major areas of responsbility, like being the Border Czar, where Chuck wants to say she was "iced out," just as Harris wants everybody to know she never wanted to be Border Czar -- but, ahem, she was.
Welker marveled at the concept, saying it's "fascinating that we're saying she's something new. She's the sitting Vice President, running as the Shiny New Object!"
Todd claimed her vice-presidency has been a "miserable experience" -- without suggesting that maybe Team Biden is racist and sexist:
TODD: This has been, I think, a fairly miserable experience for her as Vice President, because it’s pretty clear the Biden people did ice her out a lot, didn’t want her involved. It might be the best thing to happen to her candidacy. She doesn’t have that many fingerprints on the Biden administration. I think some of the public believes that! It’s why some of this polling shows they think she’s going to govern in a new direction, and it’s a fair assumption, because she really wasn’t brought into the inner circle. So many people tried to keep her out.
