Kamala Harris’ allies hold crisis talks after bombshell reports of toxic office ‘where interns cry’ & sinking popularity

PROMINENT Democratic operatives dined together last month in an urgent effort to bolster Vice President Kamala Harris’s image amid bad press for her handling of the Southern border crisis and toxic office claims. 

The boldface names who reportedly dined at the private DC home to help Harris included former Obama White House communications director Jennifer Palmieri, former Bill and Hillary Clinton advisor Kiki McLean, Hillary Clinton campaign spokeswomen Karen Finney and Adrienne Elrod, Biden adviser Stephanie Cutter, and Harris trusted cohort Minyon Moore.

The Mega AgencyTop Democratic operatives dined together last month in an urgent effort to bolster Vice President Kamala Harris’s image[/caption]

GettyFormer Bill and Hillary Clinton advisor Kiki McLean (on the far left) reportedly attended last month’s dinner to help Vice President Harris who was getting bad press[/caption]

The other intent of the meal was to lend support to her chief of staff Tina Flournoy, according to Axios.

Nobody from Harris’ VP office attended the dinner, according to the report.

She also hasn’t weighed in or discussed the meal involving outside advisors dining to provide assistance.

“The point of it was how can this group be supportive from the outside,” a person who was familiar with the dinner said in an interview with Axios.

“It was less about how do you sort out the infrastructure [of Harris’ operation], and it was more how can this group contribute to make sure that not only is her team making the most of this moment – as the first woman of color in the White House – but how can we help from the outside?’” 

Another source stated that the women were unifying to hit back against “sexist overtones” against Harris.

“Many of us lived through the Clinton campaign and want to help curb some of the gendered dynamics in press coverage that impacted (Hillary Clinton),” the source told Axios.

“It was like: ‘We’ve seen this before.’ 

“It’s subtle. 

“But when things aren’t going well for a male politician, we ask very different questions, and they’re not held to account the way a woman leader is.”

PUSH PROSECUTOR PAST

Much of the chatter amongst the communications powerhouses was to try and amplify Harris’ experience as California attorney general and then her tenure as US senator.

The timing of the meal came as a flurry of bad headlines reported her faltering as the Border Czar as tens of thousands of migrants – many of them children – arrived into the US, according to Axios citing data from the Department of Homeland Security.

By the end of June, Harris traveled to the Southern Border, just as former President Donald Trump announced he would visit McAllen, Texas. 

Once there, she discussed the “root causes” of why so many abandon their country to head north.

‘PROGRESS’ AT THE BORDER

She also pointed the finger of blame over the unfolding crisis at the US-Mexico border at former President Donald Trump.

“We inherited a tough situation,” she explained and added that El Paso is where the controversial child separation policy started while Trump was in office. 

“In five months we’ve made progress.”

“Our administration – it is important to be clear – is working to build a fair and a functional and a humane immigration system.

“We have looked at a system where people have been housed in inhumane conditions over the last many years, an asylum system that has been broken and needs to be reconstructed.”

The report of the dinner dovetailed after a Politico report interviewed 22 current and former vice presidential aides, administration officials and associates of both Harris and Biden and described the office as “abusive” and a place where people feel treated like s***.”

‘TOXIC WORK CULTURE’

Other former aides of then-Sen. Harris’ office described a “toxic work culture” where interns broke down in sobs and constant fear felt by staffers that she might snap at them.

Staffers who worked with the Democrat before she became Joe Biden’s vice president described her as routinely ending a phone conversation.

“If she called in to talk, and then changed her mind, she would just hang up the phone on you,” a source told Business Insider.

Others were blamed and doused with “a lot of verbal abuse about why she wasn’t prepared” and how she always wanted a specific type of pen.

The report of the crisis dinner also comes as Anthony Bernal, who is one of First Lady Jill Biden’s top aides, stands accused of “berating” fellow staffers causing him to be compared to Meryl Streep’s character in The Devil Wears Prada or Littlefinger in Game of Thrones.

“He has a constituency of one and he’s very effective on her behalf,” one Biden official said. 

GettyThen-candidate Joe Biden’s Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter was in attendance at the crisis dinner at a private Washington DC home[/caption]

GettyFormer Obama White House communications director Jennifer Palmieri was in attendance at the dinner to help Harris and also support her chief of staff Tina Flournoy[/caption]

GettyVP Harris’ trusted cohort Minyon Moore reportedly attended the dinner as well[/caption]