Politico: “Harris inherited a campaign from Joe Biden over the summer that appeared to be flatlining, given the president’s unpopularity and inability to carry a message. And after Democrats excised Biden from the ticket, she rapidly consolidated her moribund party, rallying women, setting TikTok and Instagram creators ablaze with supportive memes and raising eye-popping sums from donors.”
“But the momentum advisers insisted she’d built failed to materialize. She never sufficiently buried Biden’s ghost, severely hamstringing her ability to sell voters on the idea that hers was the turn-the-page candidacy.”
“It happened, simply, because Harris refused to make a clean break from the last four years when voters indicated that’s what they wanted.”
