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Kamala Harris dropped out.

rmrd0000 — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 19:18:28 +0000

In reply to How Kamala Harris’s Campaign Unraveled

Kamala Harris dropped out.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/us/politics/kamala-harris-campaign-drops-out.html

Well, you've identified ways

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 07:12:00 +0000

Well, you've identified ways that Booker hasn't rounded that bend. He has a better story, but he hasn't used it, built to real substance. I remember being annoyed that Kamala Harris couldn't get that final tweak, clear finale to her cross-examination, and your Booker example's much worse. AOC's just a thrill to watch, Franken and Grayson used to be fun and cutting and effective. Gotta know why you're there. Abrams seems to, but she's starting from way down, and a failed state launch is hard to pitch as national quale (eh, Beto?)

Peracles, At the risk of

CVille Dem — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 03:04:43 +0000

In reply to If anyone has a chance it was

Peracles, At the risk of great wrath, I must say that Booker could never win against trump. He will never win over white working-class folks, and he also seems thin on specifics other than POC efforts. I had a very long drive the day that Barr's confirmation hearing took place, and Booker used all of his question times to get Barr to agree to start a Sub-Department on Race in the DOJ. He spent all his time opining on examples of smaller programs, and Barr happily put him off, saying he couldn't commit to anything like that at the time.

Each time he had a chance, he blew it repeating himself. There were plenty of things Barr needed to answer for, and Booker gave him a break from any confrontation at all. It made me mad at the time, and I may have been overly sensitized by that long sound-bite, but it seems that Booker's outlook is not inclusive, and he hasn't thought enough about the big picture, especially internationally.

I don't agree that it has to be a white guy, but the person who the country needs now happens to be one because he can bring in blue collar workers, blacks, and people who simply want a return to rationality. Biden will allow the international community to take a collective breath of relief. Who he chooses for VP is critical. I though Warren, but I'm not sure now. He would probably choose someone who is not running now, but who can hit the ground running, and take over if necessary. Stacy Abrams seems like a good fit.

If anyone has a chance it was

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 16:02:08 +0000

In reply to Neither Kamala Harris or

If anyone has a chance it was Booker. I always found him a less stiff, more natural Obama with a more convincing resume. Booker has "Executive" written all over him.But you gotta get your face and message out there. Obama had advantage of being 2nd in a 2-person race, much like Bernie last time. This time a contender needed sharp elbows to fight for air.

Kamala Harris? Too shallow background for this level of contest. I think she's been running a Mom and Pop show when she needed a professional SWAT team.

Warren is great with legislation and confronting Wall Street and financial regulations. I'm still not convinced she's a General Practitioner.

For all the charges of pandering and being insincere, Hillary's toolkit looked largely organic to me. Yeah, she had to appease the anti-TPP crowd, give in a bit on the fracking frenzy, but she was able to hold the madmen off on healthcare.

Neither Kamala Harris or

rmrd0000 — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 15:11:09 +0000

In reply to How Kamala Harris’s Campaign Unraveled

Neither Kamala Harris or Cory Booker had much of a chance in 2020. The National mood seems to be that we need a white guy to face Trump. Elizabeth Warren's national numbers have dropped. Klobuchar never caught fire. Black voters seem to favor Biden, with Sanders and Buttigieg struggling to gain ground, especially in the first big test of the black vote in South Carolina. Harris and Booker might be considered possibilities for Vice President along with Warren and Klobuchar.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-why-kamala-harris-and-cory-booker-cant-break-through-the-democratic-primary-field

Buttigieg is surging in Iowa and New Hampshire, with Sanders in second. Biden leads in Nevada and South Carolina, with Warren in second place.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/27/biden-buttigieg-lead-2020-democratic-primary-polls-in-iowa-nh-sc-and-nevada.htm

Beginning excerpt and

artappraiser — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 13:38:12 +0000

In reply to How Kamala Harris’s Campaign Unraveled

Beginning excerpt and illustration:

WASHINGTON — In early November, a few days after Senator Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign announced widespread layoffs and an intensified focus on Iowa, her senior aides gathered for a staff meeting at their Baltimore headquarters and pelted the campaign manager, Juan Rodriguez, with questions.

What exactly was Ms. Harris’s new strategy? How much money and manpower could they put into Iowa? What would their presence be like in other early voting states?

Mr. Rodriguez offered general, tentative answers that didn’t satisfy the room, according to two campaign officials directly familiar with the conversation. Some Harris aides sitting at the table could barely suppress their fury about what they saw as the undoing of a once-promising campaign. Their feelings were reflected days later by Kelly Mehlenbacher, the state operations director, in a blistering resignation letter obtained by The Times [....]

Kelly Mehlenbacher’s Resignation Letter

The state operations director for Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign wrote this resignation letter in November. (PDF, 1 page, 0.31 MB)

1 page, 0.31 MB