Everything's complicated and my hesitation about replacing Biden up to now has been informed by polls showing other candidates not doing much better. But a lot of people seem remarkably certain that Harris specifically could not win a general election for reasons I think they should say out loud.
To be fair, the last time she was in a national election, everyone thought she would be a formidable candidate but she did terribly, and was widely considered a surprisingly poor campaigner. So there is a data point.
Everyone had to pull punches in the primary because no one wanted to damage the eventual nominee too much. She did much better once positioned as a Veep candidate since her direct opponent was fuckin Pence.
