Liberal columnist pleads with Harris to break from 'toxic' Biden: 'A liability' to her campaign

Liberal New York Magazine columnist Jonathan Chait pleaded with Vice President Kamala Harris to break her ties to President Biden by directly rejecting his "unpopular" policies.

Chait cited a New York Times article in which Democrats described the challenge Harris faces in promoting herself as the "change" candidate during Tuesday's debate while remaining "loyal" to Biden and his current administration, which she is a part of.

"Why is this a struggle? Why not directly repudiate unpopular Biden positions?" Chait asked in his Monday column for NY Mag.

"Rather than trying to balance loyalty to Biden against catering to the desires of the electorate, Harris’s strategy should focus entirely on catering to the public with no attention whatsoever to Biden’s feelings," he urged.

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By refusing to challenge the historically unpopular president's policies, Harris was allowing Biden to drag her candidacy down, Chait claimed.

"And Biden is, on the whole, a liability for Harris. He has been deeply and consistently unpopular since relatively early in his administration," he argued.

"There are certainly issues where Biden has taken a popular stance or achieved something popular that Harris can take credit for," Chait conceded, such as the bipartisan infrastructure bill. However, that doesn't mean Harris needs to "own every action Biden has taken."

"She can even say that she disagreed with him. Her role as vice president was to give the president candid advice in private and support him in public, but now that she is running for his job, she can advocate her own ideas," he argued.

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