CNN’s Cillizza: Biden and Kamala Get Coal for Christmas This Year; Buttigieg, DeSantis and Manchin Get Candy Cane

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CILLIZZA: "First, Joe Biden. Joe Biden starts 2021 in the high 50s in approval rating, looks like he’s getting the Coronavirus back under control, economy starting to recover. He ends with Omicron raging, with his approval rating in the low 40s, with some good signs in the economy, but overall a very tough year for the president. So coal. I will also put Kamala Harris in the coal category. It's for a lot of Reasons Zolan and Erica just talked about. I think that she has struggled to adapt to that role, as everyone who has ever been vice president has. This is not unique. Part of it is the job. That's just the job of being vice president. So, I think she has struggled a little bit. I think the whole thing with Biden’s age, you know, is he running again, would she be the front runner, that complicates it. So coal for her. The other person who's getting coal, Mitch McConnell. And I say this not because he had an unsuccessful legislative year or anything like that, it's because he has become target number one for Donald Trump. Donald Trump calls him the old crow, he attacks him, he is trying to recruit someone to run against him as leader in the Senate. Mitch McConnell's number two, John Thune, is reportedly thinking about walking away from politics. That would be a blow to McConnell as well. The last one I want to put in the coal category is the Republican Party, and I think this one probably the most important. This is a party that is currently organized and led by a man who falsely claims that the 2020 election was stolen. We cannot lose sight of that. He is not only arguing the election is stolen, he is working to put in place people, secretaries of state, lower level offices, who favor the idea of the election being stolen and might in 2024 reverse an outcome. And I think we can’t lose sight of that. So those are my four coals."