It was not some grand plan, it was a massive failure.

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164. The mass public pants-shitting over a bad debate was terrible form.

Harris has some advantages - it's nice that Trump is now the older candidate by far, and she's close enough to Biden that we might still get some incumbency advantage.

What isn't advantageous is the validation of RW talking points about Biden being unfit for office, and the fact that all of this came about (seemingly) over a relatively minor debate fail.

I think we can win with Harris, but we definitely won't win if all of her surrogates drop a load in their pants the first time she has a gaffe and start frantically looking for a replacement. Nobody is perfect. The right WILL find effective lines of attack against her, and the party will have to close ranks and fight back next time.

We've been fortunate that this is mostly being framed in our favor... Joe Biden makes a huge sacrifice in an unassailable act of patriotism, and a next generation politician takes the field against Trump.

But what lead up to it looked to me like an awful display of cowardice and disunity, and the fact that it was rewarded gives me pause.