Key members of Vice President Kamala Harris’s swing-state operation have gone public with grievances over how the campaign is managing its affairs in a key battleground that will likely determine November’s winner.
A heated blame game is ripping a schism through Harris’s Pennsylvania team right in the middle of the state’s mail-in voting period. At issue is whether the campaign’s westside leadership, led by campaign manager and Pittsburgh native Nikky Liu, is effectively targeting enclaves in Philadelphia rich with persuadable voters or wasting time in areas where Harris’s support is already robust. Insiders who spoke with Politico described a chaotic environment where Liu’s allies and underlings have lost confidence in her ability to see the target.
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“I have concerns about Nikki Liu,” said Ryan Boyer, head of the city’s influential building trades council and the foremost voice on labor issues in the capital city. “I don’t think she understands Philadelphia.” That sentiment was echoed across more than 20 interviews, most notably by Black and Latino leaders who met with Vice President Harris weeks early to privately press their concerns, asking for Liu and Harris’s deputy chief of staff Sergio Gonzales to