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This week marks one year since a court-ordered deadline for the FDA to take action, but addictive flavored vapes are still on the market. The FDA has missed deadline after deadline to protect our kids from nicotine-loaded flavored e-cigarettes. Drop us a line: Rachael Bade, Eugene Daniels, Ryan Lizza, Tara Palmeri.įDA misses deadlines as flavored e-cigs hook more kids. Whether a reset-but-not-a-reset can change that is unclear. The messaging problem, says Brazile, is this: “There’s this insatiable appetite to carry every conversation that Kamala is having into the press, but it’s never one that says, actually, what’s going on.” (The VP’s team declined to comment on what specifically has changed since Voles and Frankel joined, but officials have acknowledged in the past they are handling long-term planning and organizational development.) They have shared little about any internal changes, but a person close to Harris described Voles as “a calming influence” who has streamlined bottlenecks. Over the summer, the Biden administration brought in a pair of fixers - LORRAINE VOLES and ADAM FRANKEL - to assess the VP’s operation and institute changes. Harris, a relative newcomer to Washington, has been reluctant to forge relationships with members of the news media, and there has been little from her office in the way of proactively pitching stories about her - which just magnifies the impact of process pieces from mainstream press outlets and fierce criticism from right-wing outlets. “That goes back to the original discussion about how the team can construct the office in a way that helps meet those demands of the press corps in this press environment.” “There’s just a different level of scrutiny and a different level of coverage,” said one Democratic strategist aligned with the White House. But allies also push back on stories of discord as unfair characterizations of a historic VP who, they say, is being held to a different standard than her white male predecessors. “And those improvements are acknowledged by the people in her office and they are acknowledged by the people in the White House.”ĭONNA BRAZILE, the veteran Democratic strategist close to the White House and the VP’s office, said that the turnover is being overblown, but that this is also a “good opportunity” for Harris to “renew and repurpose.”Īfter nearly a year in office, White House aides concede they’ve been surprised by the level of scrutiny on the VP and the amount of bad press she’s received. “There are definitely some improvements that are widely acknowledged that need to be made in that office,” as one Democrat with ties to Biden world told us. I dig into that reality in a new story out this morning with Chris Cadelago, as top Democratic operatives and Harris advisers are split on whether the veep should embrace the concept of a reset, or if it simply feeds a media narrative of “Kamala in chaos.” It’s a debate currently roiling Harris’ orbit. But more aides in Harris’ office are eyeing the exits, according to people familiar with those conversations.Īll of which has led some of Harris’ closest confidantes to one conclusion: It’s a chance for a reset. Officials maintain those departures were long planned and are not evidence of turmoil. Headlines of dysfunction in her office have become the norm, and in recent weeks, four staffers have announced their upcoming departures, including senior adviser and chief spokesperson SYMONE SANDERS (who has arguably the highest profile of anyone in Harris’ office) and ASHLEY ETIENNE, the VP’s comms director. Harris’ net approval was -12 in the most recent POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. She has a difficult (some allies call it impossible) policy portfolio, including protecting voting rights and stemming immigration from Central America’s Northern Triangle countries - neither of which lend themselves to easy wins on uncontroversial issues. | Win McNamee/Getty Images DRIVING THE DAYįor months, VP KAMALA HARRIS has battled a perception that she’s floundering. Some of VP Kamala Harris’ closest confidantes have come to one conclusion: It’s a chance for a reset.
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