I agree with you. They’re gonna have her on a leash until her official confirmed nomination is locked down. They will also likely script and bullet-point everything she does campaign-wise all the way through the election. IOW, no free-thought experiments discussions, no word salad musings or CACKLING.
They’ll have her speaking in Obama mode. Three and four word sentences with a pause and switch to the other teleprompter, then on to the next bullet-point sentence of the prepared narrative.
I believe that will be exactly the plan.
What they can not script is CHARISMA. You either have it or you don’t. Obama, Clinton, W Bush, Reagan and Trump all had CHARISMA. Whether you agreed with them politically or not they were all likeable. Hillary did not have it. Which is one of the main reason she lost.
Bill “I feel your pain” Clinton had it in spades. He was the best used car salesman/politician I have ever seen.
Reagan also had it. Of course, he was a trained actor. He was extremely likeable and funny. Even Mondale had to laugh at his jokes.
Obama was a very charismatic speaker when he was behind his trusted Teleprompter. With out it he was not so good. Unless he was talking about sports. He could talk sports. He watched a lot of ESPN. He was the Black Messiah.
Kamala does NOT have charisma. She is NOT likeable. So, it is like trying to put lipstick on a pig.
That does not mean she should be underestimated. She did not become VP without being a sneaky, crafty, manipulating, politician. She would do anything to gain more power and the gold ring of POTUS.
So, Kamala will get all the Trump haters vote. I find it had to believe she will get the true Independents vote.