What Kamala Harris Learned From a Bruising 2020 Primary

The New York Times ^ | Aug. 2, 2024, 5:03 a.m. ET | Astead W. Herndon

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The best day of Kamala Harris’s 2020 presidential campaign was its first.

Before she was tripped up by CNN town halls, forced to respond to a torrent of policy proposals put forth by Senator Elizabeth Warren, savaged by Representative Tulsi Gabbard and sandwiched between the moderation of Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, she drew 20,000 people to a rally in her native Oakland, Calif., that showed hints of the unifying Democratic figure she now promises to be.

In that speech, delivered in January 2019, Ms. Harris owned her record as a prosecutor, told personal stories about the impact of her family and multicultural upbringing, and struck fear in the heart of her Democratic rivals. The argument for her candidacy at the time was similar to the arguments that voters and political analysts are making in her favor right now. Mr. Biden had the experience, Ms. Warren had the policy, and Senator Bernie Sanders had the progressive appeal — but Ms. Harris was the candidate who could theoretically do all the above. It did not matter that in that crowded primary contest, few voters said she was their first choice. It mattered that she was nearly everyone’s second or third.

These days, that broad appeal is becoming the calling card of Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign, around which Democrats quickly coalesced after President Biden’s sudden exit from the race.

Now, with less than 100 days to go until Election Day, Ms. Harris has a rare opportunity to reintroduce herself to the American public. More than five years later, she is shaping up to be a different type of candidate this time — a Kamala Harris who sounds more like the one at that introductory speech in Oakland than the inconsistent candidate she proved to be. Here are four key ways the Kamala Harris...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Article presented under topic “humor” to grant it the respect it deserves.

[brownsfan]

What Harris learned, by watching basement Joe get installed is that with the Dem machine behind you, anything is possible.

[Veto!]

I’m so sick of Kamala this, Kamala that, if she should manage to steal the election, I’m never reading a newspaper or online news again.

Just think of the time I’d save. And peace of mind I’d enjoy. Or maybe I’d just be bored.

[Sirius Lee]

[Tell It Right]

What I learned from Kamala during the 2020 primary is that Biden engages in sexual assaults. Evidently Kamala digs that kind of thing.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

A normal person would have learned 1) nobody likes you and 2) my political career is going nowhere.

Then Biden had to get a female POC and et voila!! A “star” was born. But she remained a blithering, incompetent idiot.

[BenLurkin]

That it’s all pretty much a farce.

Same thing we knew all along.

[Luke21]

“Article presented under topic “humor” to grant it the respect it deserves.”

These people are ghastly.

[RoseofTexas]

Cackles earns enough votes to be the nominee. What’s wrong with that sentence? Earned? You mean like someone gave her the points. So in other words selected not elected right?

[Luke21]

There’s a big brown mouse in here somewhere that my cats have been too bored to chase. The Democrats could run him and he would probably win. The country is that far gone.

[falcon99]

The NYT is really pumping out the puke inducing articles by the reams

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

did she just get all the delegate votes

[FlingWingFlyer]

“Always bring an extra roll of toilet paper.”

[Bookshelf]

The Marxist-driven NYTimes is pulling out all the stops.

[mo]

She’s educable?!!! who knew!!!

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

What a load of caca from The New Yawk Slimes.

[faithhopecharity]

one thing she’s learned is to make money fast

her face is all over the net begging for money to win her campaign

[ifinnegan]

She learned voting and campaigning is for suckers. Just get appointed by a behind the scenes cabal and let election fraud do the rest.

[outofsalt]

"sandwiched between the moderation of Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg"

I'm sorry I read that. Gross.