Dan Rather on Harris going after Biden: "Did she win new fans or turn people off?"

[Pachamama]

54. Probably Both - but my feeling is it will backfire on Harris and turn many off...it did for me...

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When she said what she said and suggested he coddled segregationists and attacked Biden....that was a sucker punch and I was shocked. Biden was shocked, but the look on his face as she discussed being the girl on the bus, that was a look of empathy from Biden...I am very disappointed that Harris decided to attack Biden on stage at the debates like this to make her point about racism in America to make it up a notch in the polls.

As a supporter of Harris, and also someone who has been since early January proposing a Harris/Biden or Biden/Harris ticket to be the only ONE that will be able to beat Trump and win, I feel she made a huge mistake.

This may have won her some support in the black community, but Biden is very popular among women, whites and blacks alike and also especially among the older generation and republicans and moderates, and blue collar workers (a lot of whom are white) and she did herself no favor there and may have lost support of those voters if they have to choose between her and Biden. Honestly - if she wanted to take anyone out on stage tonight, she should have been taking on Sanders in this debate not Biden. She should have kept her focus on Trump and saying what she would do as President, particularly against his racist policies and stances.

I believe that her shot at being the eventual nominee has actually now gone down because of that. I believe Biden will be the nominee for all the reasons I just stated and she at least WAS his top choice as a VP running mate. That may have just disappeared. Wrong move for Harris.

I think that Biden will recover from this. I have believed that Biden and Harris working together will be the way to heal America's wounds of racism. Maybe Biden can figure out how to take what she said and still do that with her.

I am really disappointed in Harris on how she did this. Trump is the only one happy about it. And I am pretty certain Obama isn't supportive of what she did in going after Biden.