Democrats prepare for ‘Harris Honeymoon’ to wear off

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In the same token, on Thursday evening, a Zoom call titled White Women for Harris featured tons of would-be donors and celebrities such as actress Connie Britton and athletes like soccer legend Megan Rapinoe and retired WNBA superstar Sue Bird all joined it, as did gun control activist Shannon Watts and Michigan state senator Mallory McMorrowsuch raising a trove of cash for the vice president, generating jokes on social media about it being “Karens for Kamala.” Felicity Pereyra, a former data director for the Democratic National Committee, was on the White Women for Harris call and a separate Latinas for Harris Zoom call. As Inside Washington reported earlier this week, Donald Trump’s campaign is labeling Harris’s jump in the polls as the “Harris Honeymoon.” And indeed, Republicans seem to have found two weak spots where they can attack her: crime and immigration. On Thursday, House Republicans distracted from the fact they have been utterly unable to pass the necessary spending bills by introducing a resolution condemning Biden and Harris specifically in her capacity as “border czar.” Republicans harping about the influx of immigration at the US-Mexico border is not news; they’ve done that since Biden took office. “I actually voted for her because she ran on a tough-on-crime platform, and then, you know, four months in, she betrays her voters,” she told The Independent, noting how even Democrats like then-senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein criticized her for not pursuing the death penalty for the killer of slain police officer Isaac Espinoza in 2004.