Kamala Harris fails to meet Nashville survivors, marking new White House low

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Amid Tennessee’s turmoil, Vice President Kamala Harris took a surprise trip to Nashville on Friday to meet with just-expelled state lawmakers, the state’s Democratic caucus and gun-control advocates — but not with survivors of the victims of the mass shooting that prompted the political drama.

The expulsions came after three legislators joined a gun-control rally outside the state Capitol that then moved into the House chamber, disrupting proceedings as two of them blared their fury over a megaphone.

The third stood by in support (and later beat expulsion by a single vote).

The protest wasn’t Jan. 6, 2021 at the US Capitol, but then again no lawmakers joined the mob that day.

It was certainly an outrageous bid to intimidate legislators into doing the protesters’ will — a gross violation of democratic norms that no lawmaker should join, let alone lead.

Yet all this passion was supposedly caused by Audrey Hale’s mass-murder at the Covenant School.

That makes it beyond bizarre that Harris didn’t (at least) also meet with survivors of the three small children and three adults slain that day.

Which event is more awful, after all: The murders or the expulsions?

Meanwhile, the White House has yet to invite the two hero cops who stopped the massacre from being far worse by charging in to take Hale down.

And it’s ignored the grieving families of the victims. (Is it simply because Covenant was a Christian school?)

Yet it has asked the three democracy-endangering legislators to come in.

And the FBI is still sitting on Hale’s manifesto, refusing to release it publicly — presumably because it connects her trans grievances to her deadly rampage.

Law enforcement trying to conceal a shooter’s motive is unusual, to say the least.

The only thing that makes this mass murder different is Hale’s trans status.

Apparently, that’s enough for the White House, and Democrats generally, to seek to disappear the shooter, the heroes and the victims.

Even as they play politics-as-usual on every other front surrounding the tragedy.

Can President Joe Biden’s vows to “unite us” and “protect our democracy” get any shabbier?

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