KAMMY'S TEAM IS LOSING STEAM

‘Low morale’ amid defections, layoffs

Sen. Kamala Harris’ once-promising White House bid is rapidly unraveling — with her outgoing operations director submitting a blistering resignation letter that claims “morale has never been lower,” a report has revealed.

Adding insult to injury, the disenfranchised staffer has since jumped camp and joined rival candidate Mike Bloomberg’s team.

Facing dwindling funds and tumbling polling numbers, the California senator has laid off swaths of staff this month in an attempt to revive her struggling 2020 campaign before the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries.

But a New York Times report published Friday says the Harris campaign is imploding. Former and current campaign staff have broken ranks to claim Harris and her closest advisers lack focus and have failed to identify states and issues to campaign on.

In an excoriating resignation letter obtained by the Times, Harris’ outgoing operations director, Kelly Mehlenbacher, accused the campaign of treating staff appallingly and having no plan to win.

“This is my third presidential campaign and I have never seen an organization treat its staff so poorly,” Mehlenbacher, who has joined Bloomberg’s team, wrote in the Nov. 11 letter.

Mehlenbacher, a former staffer for Hillary’s Clinton 2016 campaign, said it was the treatment of staff, particularly the laying off of dozens of aides at Harris’ Baltimore headquarters, that was the “final straw in this very difficult decision.”

“It is unacceptable that we would lay off anyone that we hired only weeks earlier. It is unacceptable that with less than 90 days until Iowa we still do not have a real plan to win,” she wrote.

With cash reserves running desperately low, Harris’ campaign manager and consultants have all taken pay cuts in the hopes of keeping the White House bid afloat.

An early Democratic powerhouse, Harris raised more than $12 million during the second quarter of the year.

But the Oakland-born lawmaker has failed to break new ground. Her polling numbers tumbled from 20 percent in July to just 3 percent in November.

WHAT A DOWNER! Sen. Kamala Harris has lost a key staffer to Mike Bloomberg and her campaign has been heading south since peaking during the early summer.