It is hard to say exactly when the shine started wearing off the Harris penny, when joy gave way to frustration. With her back against the wall she appeared on '60 Minutes' this week.
In the days after Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential election to be replaced by Vice President Kamala Harris, there was real joy among Democrats across the country. That was not just a made-up media story, I saw it, but with less than a month to go, the joy is gone and a quiet panic is setting in. In the first week of August I was, appropriately enough, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Democrats I spoke to were ebullient and effervescent at the change atop the ticket.
It was only after that, that I started hearing Democrats uttering words that seemed unthinkable back in August, namely, 'Maybe we should have stuck with Biden.' Ouch. Biden himself even joked about it at a press conference, something he is at least still capable of, quipping 'I’m back in.
It is not clear what Harris can do to reverse the clear trends favoring Trump today, '60 Minutes' wasn’t it, and her appearances on podcasts, late night shows, and 'The View' make her look like she is pitching a new rom-com, not running for president of the United States. The only answer left may be for Harris to make this fight uglier and dirtier as the clock runs out.
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