While Democrats and most of their mainstream media allies propped up Vice President Kamala Harris after she was anointed as the Democratic candidate, that enthusiasm has dropped, considerably.

In the moments after a recent CNN town hall event with the vice president, a number of panelists were less than kind to Harris, and for once, truthful about who she is as a candidate. 

According to Fox News, several of the panelists on the left-leaning cable news network criticized Harris for not answering questions without using "word salad."

Others criticized her for focusing on attacking former President Donald Trump instead of expanding on her policy ideas.

What happened?

David Axelrod, a former top Obama adviser, was one of the first panelists to weigh in on Harris' Wednesday night town hall performance.

"The thing that would concern me is when she doesn’t want to answer a question," Axelrod said. "Her habit is to kind of go to ‘word salad city,’ and she did that on a couple of answers. One was on Israel. Anderson asked a direct question, ‘Would you be stronger on Israel than Trump?’ And there was a seven-minute answer, but none of it related to the question he was asking."

The town hall event was hosted by CNN's Anderson Cooper, and it was held in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania.

Axelrod doubled down in his criticism of Harris' non-answers to important questions that voters want to know more about.

"On certain questions like that, on immigration, I thought she missed an opportunity because she would acknowledge no concerns about any of the administration’s policies. And that’s a mistake. Sometimes you have to concede things and she didn‘t concede much," Axelrod said.

The critique got even worse as others chimed in on how they believed Harris wasn't at her best that evening.

She didn't "close the deal"

CNN's Dana Bash argued that Harris didn't close the deal for Pennsylvania voters during a prime opportunity to do so.

"What I‘m hearing from people who I have been talking to, and that is that if her goal was to close the deal, they‘re not sure she did that. And, you know, some people have asked, is she being held to a different standard? Maybe. But that‘s maybe the world that she‘s living in. And on the question of who she is, people are understanding that a little bit more," Bash said.

Bash also pointed out that Harris didn't list out a single legislative priority.

Clearly, Harris is sinking and still not living up to what her allies in Congress and the media made her out to be.