By Selwyn Duke

If a November poll is to be believed, Kamala Harris is possibly the most unpopular vice president in history. That survey, by liberal USA Today, found that only 28 percent of Americans approved of her job performance. This is close to Republican ex-vice president Dick Cheney’s low, 30 percent, despite Harris’s benefitting from a degree of positive media coverage of which Cheney could only dream.

In fairness, this poll was an outlier, and Harris’s Real Clear Politics average is higher: 38.6 percent. Yet this is still well under water. Harris’s defenders, however, have an explanation:

“Harris faces unduly high standards,” as the Associated Press put it yesterday.

Of course, to couch the message the AP wanted to send as “news,” it followed its quoted headline with “experts say.” This was under a video that ostensibly proved the AP’s point, a clip featuring one “expert”: Rutgers University associate professor of political science Kelly Dittmar. And the academic talked about Harris for a total of 74 seconds (probably about 60 seconds longer than discussion of Harris’s substance warrants).

To be clear, many other apologists would make the same case.

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