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There was real joy among Democrats across the country in the days after Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race and was replaced by Vice President Kamala Harris. I saw that it wasn’t just a media fabrication, but with less than a month left, the joy has gone and a quiet panic has set in.
The first week of August, I was in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, of course, and the Democrats I spoke to were excited and enthusiastic about the changes on the ticket. One woman told me she called her mother to celebrate the birth of a black female president with her.
Other left-leaning voters told me they didn’t like the way Biden won, but felt Harris could turn the race around and defeat Donald Trump. It certainly felt like that for about a month.
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Most voters I spoke to in San Francisco, red and blue alike, believed that Harris was likely to win and that the stalled Democratic campaign called on AAA to make a leap forward and get back on track. I felt that.
Harris erased Trump’s lead over Biden and quickly overtook him as the front-runner, with voters eager to sample her like a new restaurant opening in a small town.
Republicans and some in the media were frustrated that she would never give a traditional interview or press conference, but her arrogant advisers grinned and said, in short, “So what? She’s winning,” he declared.
Well, she can’t win anymore. This week, with her back against the wall, she appeared on “60 Minutes” to show voters the real reason she’s camera shy when it comes to tough questions.
Asked whether she and the Biden administration have lost American influence over its Middle East ally Israel, Veep once again proved herself to be a walking, talking salad bar. Here’s what she had to say:
“Bill, our work has resulted in a number of Israeli movements. These movements were inspired by many things, including our support for what needs to happen in this region. Or what happened as a result.”
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The most generous interpretation of this strange combination of words is that she’s saying “we’re trying,” but what’s more likely is that she’s saying what It means that we do not know at all.
Over the past two weeks of travel, I’ve found it increasingly difficult to engage with Democrats about the presidential election. Just like the fans who avoid the sports pages after their team drops a few playoff games, they just don’t want to talk about it.
As a lifelong Democrat from Ohio, I was actually able to talk to her and all I can say is, “I don’t know, she’s like out there.”
It’s hard to say exactly when the brilliance began to wear off Harris’ pennies, or when the joy gave way to frustration, but the Teamsters’ failure to support her and the large union Trump’s lead in the internal investigation appears significant.
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It was only after that that we started hearing Democrats say things that would have been unthinkable in August. In other words, “Maybe we should have stuck with Biden.” ah.
Biden himself joked about this in his press conference, at least still able to quip, “I’m back to normal.”
Harris’ spokespeople insist she’s busy swaying Democratic voters off the bridge, saying she still leads in polling averages, that she has a war chest worth more than Fort Knox, and that Trump He claims to have an enviable ground game.
All of these points are true, and the latter may be decisive. Harris’ campaign, like the one that crowned her as a candidate, may be an astroturf movement rather than a grassroots one, but her supporters, who rode a bus wearing matching teachers union T-shirts, It’s like a vote-gathering machine.
Still, the thrill is definitely gone.
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It’s unclear what Ms. Harris can do to reverse today’s apparent trend in Trump’s favor. It was “60 Minutes.” Her podcasts, late-night shows and appearances on “The View” appear to suggest she’s laying out a new agenda, a romantic comedy called “Don’t Run for President of the United States.”
The only answer left may be for Harris to make this fight uglier and dirtier as time runs out. If the joy is gone, and it is, the only thing left may be to be furious that the light is going out.
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