I think that the point for the left is, they have been searching for a “rising star” to get their lazier voters (especially the many who can’t be bothered with voting unless they’re “represented”, by which they mean identity politics) to come out. They’ve been flailing for this “star”. They tried with the latest Kennedy incarnation in the response to President Trump’s SOTU address, and that fizzled. They’ve tried with some others. They’re trying to make this one stick. She’s tong, she’s female, she’s a minority, and she’s a political “outsider”, so their answer to Trump. Unfortunately she’s all style and no substance. Trump had a long background of achievement behind him, outside of politics.
The left’s “blue wave” is looking more and more like a smurf piss puddle (stole that from a YT comment) without something to get all those Obozo voters out there in the mid-terms, the ones who can’t be bothered if they can’t vote for a “brother” or a “sistah”.