Democrats have a problem that doesn’t appear to have an easy fix. That problem? Americans don’t like Vice President Kamala Harris. This personal distaste is reminiscent of that of Hillary Clinton, whose unlikability far exceeds any likability. In a recent YouGov poll, Harris finds herself under water by nearly 10 percentage points, with 49% of Americans having an unfavorable view of the president-in-waiting.

For the immediate future, it appears the Biden administration has elected to essentially keep Harris out of the spotlight, as evidenced by her continued absence from visiting the U.S. southern border even after being named “border czar” over two months ago. Evidently, the negative headlines about Harris being MIA are safer than actually having Harris out in public, maniacally cackling away at every interaction with a human.

National Review’s Charles Cooke hit the nail on the head when he observed, “That Harris is unpopular should come as no great surprise, given that she somehow manages to combine into a single package a transparent insincerity, an unvarnished authoritarianism, and a tendency toward precisely the sort of self-satisfied progressivism that helped the Republicans to limit their losses at the last general election. … The problem is that Harris is a phony.”

Another indicator that the dislike of Harris is deeper than mere public perception is the fact that she has a difficult time keeping staff. Even the Leftmedia rag The Atlantic grudgingly admits this reality: “Harris has been an elected official for 18 years straight, but she has only a few senior aides on staff who have worked for her for more than a few months.” Of course, The Atlantic still tries explaining this away as mere “turf battles.”

Harris also apparently keeps an “enemies list.” As The Atlantic story complains, “The vice president and her team tend to dismiss reporters. Trying to get her to take a few questions after events is treated as an act of impish aggression. And Harris herself tracks political players and reporters whom she thinks don’t fully understand her or appreciate her life experience.”

Jill Biden is no Harris fan either, at least not if we consider her reaction after an early Democrat primary debate in which Harris insinuated that Joe was racist. Jill was reported to have commented that Harris could “go f— yourself.” It was these personal animosities that made it surprising to some of us that Biden chose Harris as his running mate. Yet as our publisher, Mark Alexander, never tires of reminding us, he predicted her on the ticket because she “checked all the boxes” and was thus Biden’s only choice once he painted himself into a corner by promising to pick a “woman of color.” The choice sure wasn’t driven by likability or merit.

We’d say it’s hard to imagine Democrats having success by coalescing around the deeply unpopular Harris come 2024 — or sooner should the situation arise — but stranger political things have happened.