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.
Yes, but that campaign was a primary which means that data point was comprised of people who read Jacobin and were ride or die for Bernie Sanders, and old people.
Full disclosure: I maxed out in 2020 for Harris and for Secretary Mayor Pete (because I have a friend who was a Notre Dame law prof and said he’s a good guy).
I would take your political acumen with a grain of salt as you just publicly admitted to spending thousands of dollars to support a McKinsey consultant on the hearsay of a friend
Fair, except I’ll double down on your purported reason: I also liked the things he said. To say nothing of: at the time he wasn’t a McKinsey consultant, he was a mayor, and I’m a lawyer so am very ill-situated not to like other professionals.
If you actually liked the things he said then I disagree with you further. He had nothing to offer than neoliberal platitudes worked over by focus groups and delivered in a dollar store Obama impression. He also lied about supporting universal health care and falsely claimed victory in IA.
