Kamala Harris Is Not Going to Like 2 New Profiles

[left-of-center2012]

The 2020 campaign of Kamala Harris is the subject of two analytical stories on Friday, one in the Washington Post and the other in the New York Times. It's a safe bet Harris will not like either one, however, because of the similar takeaways: Her campaign is in big trouble. "Teetering" and "flailing" are words used by the Post, and "How Kamala Harris's Campaign Unraveled" is the headline in the Times.

The latter newspaper obtained the resignation letter of former Iowa operations director Kelly Mehlenbacher, who wrote: "This is my third presidential campaign and I have never seen an organization treat its staff so poorly." And this: "With less than 90 days until Iowa we still do not have a real plan to win." The lack of a clear campaign message and shifting strategies are blamed.

Both stories also take note of some confusion over who's actually running the operation—campaign manager Juan Rodriguez or Maya Harris, who is the candidate's sister and has the title of campaign chairwoman. But Kamala Harris, too, is getting her share of the blame, with her own advisers criticizing her in interviews with the Times "for going on the offensive against rivals, only to retreat, and for not firmly choosing a side in the party’s ideological feud between liberals and moderates."

Democratic pollster Paul Maslin puts it this way to the Post: “If she doesn’t turn it around in the next couple months, what I think we may end up saying what doomed her candidacy is there just wasn’t any clear rationale."

https://www.newser.com/story/283705/kamala-harris-is-not-going-to-like-2-new-profiles.html

[Sloumeau]

1. I believe that for this election, Senator Kamala Harris' best bet

...always was and is to be former Joe Biden's VP choice. I still believe that that is highly possible.

[left-of-center2012]

2. She burnt that bridge at the first debate

[question everything]

4. I don't think that Harris, or most of the candidates are interested in being second to anyone

[Demsrule86]

5. Biden will be the nominee...but I don't see any candidate with the possible exception of Amy

as being useful in the general.

[ritapria]

3. Kamala Harris got caught in a squeeze Play

Biden and Buttigieg own the center while Bernie and Warren own the left lane ...Kamala needed to choose a lane in which to compete …..The voters seem to have settled on a Final Four …….. CNN conducted a Top 4 only National Poll : Biden 35% ..Bernie 23% .. Warren 20% ...Buttigieg 17% ….Of course we don't know how many points Bloomberg will buy through his massive Media Buy ……..I don't see him taking many votes away from the Top Progressive contenders ...

[MineralMan]

6. Kamala Harris's Inexperience Is Showing.

California is a very different place, politically from most of the United States, and Harris really only has experience in that state, as far as politics and campaigning go. Her inexperience is showing as we get closer to the first primary events.

[crazytown]

7. We know.

"How Kamala Harris's Campaign Unraveled" has already been posted, but why not put the boot in?