You may be right, they may feel desperate enough to run Kamala Harris, but I do believe deep down that they have been preparing Terry McAuliffe (governor of Virginia) to run, “it’s his turn.”
The left has been focus grouping him and his strengths and weaknesses for about a year now — Whether to tie him to Obama or not...Talk about his relationship with the Clinton’s or not, this is all very calculated.
Watch for them to trot him out in early 2018 in Iowa, if the left does that, you know he is their guy.
The bottom line with him is, they won’t be able to run away from his rabid anti 2nd amendment views...He will lose all the states that Trump won, even if Pence is running for president and Trump.
That is just my opinion.
I don’t necessarily disagree with your analysis. I think there are two wings of the democrat party; the leftist pragmatists (Clinton wing) and the leftist ideologues (Sanders wing). The ideologues would back Harris while the pragmatists would back McAuliffe. Sometimes the ideologues select the candidate, and sometimes the pragmatists do.
We’ll see in 2018 who has the upper hand.