Only a week after securing the delegates to become the Democrat presidential nominee without a single voter casting a ballot for her as such, the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris is already lowering expectations for a Democrat victory under her leadership.
“Harris and emerging campaign brain trust share the view that shifting the fundamentals of the race will be difficult with a calcified electorate and fragmented media environment,” Politico Playbook reported Monday.
Breitbart noted that Harris has not given a one-on-one press interview since becoming the presumptive nominee, but it has only been a week.
Given her history of gaffes, though, it isn't surprising that a Democrat senator said the campaign was going to be "brutally tough."
An Economist/YouGov poll found that only 39% of registered independents even think Harris is qualified to be president.
That can't be encouraging for the campaign.
In the same poll, 92% said Harris was at least "a little" involved in the coverup of Biden's mental decline.
Party elites including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) were reportedly "lukewarm" to concerned about Harris's candidacy, a source involved in internal discussions told the Hill.
“She wasn’t a great candidate,” a Democrat senator told the Hill referring to Harris's 2020 candidacy, when she dropped out of the primary before any votes had even been cast.
Another Democrat senator said it was going to be hard for Harris to gain support if she steadfastly praised Biden because his record (and hers by association) was unpopular.
And then there's her record in the Senate, where she was ranked the most liberal senator there.
She's a pretty weak candidate already, so it stands to reason she might not be able to withstand close scrutiny of her record.
They must have really needed to get Biden out of there if they latched onto Harris despite her unpopularity.
It looks like they are already expecting to lose to former President Donald Trump in November, and they may not even fight it all that much. Either that or they want to brag about a come-from-behind victory when the time comes.
