Kamala Harris’ Presidential Campaign Barely Has a Pulse . . . in California!

National Review ^ | Sept 17, 2019 | Jim Geraghty

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Since the early days of this presidential primary cycle, there’s been a quiet but intriguing narrative that Kamala Harris was a much stronger candidate than her national polling might suggest. The gist is that while most years, California is just an ATM for Democratic presidential candidates, this cycle the Golden State will vote on Super Tuesday, March 3. The whole process is so much earlier than usual that absentee and early primary ballots will be mailed out the day of the Iowa caucuses.

It’s an intriguing theory, but history is full of candidates who thought they could make their big move after Iowa and New Hampshire and found themselves sputtering on fumes by the time their preferred primary rolled around. In Rudy Giuliani’s 2008 campaign, Florida was supposed to be the firewall, but winning tends to beget more winning, and losing tends to beget more losing. It’s really difficult to become the nominee if you don’t win Iowa or New Hampshire. The only Democrat who’s done it is Bill Clinton in 1992, and that was an oddity because Senator Tom Harkin was a home-state candidate in Iowa (so most observers discounted it), and Clinton was the “comeback kid” who finished second in New Hampshire that year. (Some might also argue that Hillary Clinton’s win in Iowa last cycle was so close it shouldn’t even count.)

The other hitch in the Harris focus-on-California theory is that it presumes Harris would have a big advantage in her home state. Apparently not! Today’s Emerson poll is a five-alarm fire for the Harris campaign: “Vice President Joe Biden is tied with Sen. Bernie Sanders at 26 percent and Sen. Elizabeth Warren is close behind at 20 percent. A significant drop is seen between this tier and the next group of candidates; entrepreneur Andrew Yang is in fourth at 7 percent, followed by Sen. Kamala Harris at 6 percent.”

Fifth place in her home state? A month ago, SurveyUSA had her in fourth place at 17 percent, just a point behind Sanders! Maybe this Emerson result is an outlier, because if it isn’t . . . to quote the wise philosopher Bill Paxton, “game over, man, game over!”

California has 495 delegates to the Democratic convention, and they are awarded proportionally — almost a tenth of the total 4535 hard delegates. The pro-Harris theory is that while everybody else is scrambling over a share of Iowa’s 49 delegates or New Hampshire’s 33 delegates, Harris can set herself up to win big in her home state and walk away with, say, 250 or so delegates just out of California, setting herself up to be the frontrunner after Super Tuesday.

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Harridan Harris keeps shooting herself in the foot. This garbage about Kavanaugh is over the top.

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[Mark17]

Fifth in her home state? Has she played the race card yet? It must be racism keeping her down. /S

[Ann Archy]

Wilcow calls her “Willie Brown’s CHEW TOY!!!!

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Ms. Kamala Harris.... (The Famed Village Bicycle, Everyone Has Had A Ride) has had her fifteen minutes of fame). No one ever wants to ride a an old used, bike that has seen its best days. Bye, Bye, Kamala!!! Your Female Political appeal has fizzed out, 1,2,3,!!! Maybe some homeless dude in California will do the trick for ya!!!

[xp38]

Why do dims have so many more delegates than the pubs for their convention?

[spokeshave]

Why do dims have so many more delegates than the pubs for their convention?

To spread the walking around money around.

[cgbg]

She was cute and slutty when she was drunk at the last debate... ;-)

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>>Harridan Harris keeps shooting herself in the foot. This garbage about Kavanaugh is over the top.<<

You can have sex with some of the people some of the time...

[freedumb2003]

>>Wilcow calls her “Willie Brown’s CHEW TOY!!!!<<

Back then her favorite spot was sitting on willie’s staff.

[Liz]

SHOCKER Di/Fi is having a Cali fund-raiser for (TA-DA) Biden.......not Kamala.

[Liz]

SHOCKER Di/Fi is having a Cali fund-raiser for (TA-DA) Biden.......not Kamala.

[mewzilla]

2 words: Willie Brown.

There’s not enough eye bleach in the universe to deal with that issue.

[poconopundit]

It's a shame Kamel Hump and Harass has fallen from grace in her own State.  I guess voters are not charmed by the Posturing Prosecutor with the blue pen fetish.

1. Sorry, your 10 seconds to reply is up, General Kelly. Here's your next question...

2. Booker, It's cool you chose Spartacus as your hero. That fireplug-sized tyrant Napoleon is more my style.

3. Will you pledge to this committee to share any written correspondence, be they your calendars, records, notes, e-mails, tax records, and private letters to your wife and children?

4. No, you do not get to respond, Admiral.

5. Be sure about your answer, sir, because you will pay dearly for any mistakes you make.

6. I hope you had your Wheaties this morning, Mr. Secretary. Because I am going to badger you with trick questions till you blow your stack.

7. YES or NO, Judge. Just answer my question. No discussion of special circumstances or exceptions. YES or NO!

8. Let me read to you this [complex and arcane] statute. [One minute reading]. Now answer me: just YES OR NO!

9. Aha, I thought of another gotcha question, better write it down.

10. I will ask you again for the last time. If you do not answer again, you shall write on the blackboard 200 times, "I will answer only YES or NO to the Grand Inquisitor Harris".

11. Have you written a directive to your hundreds of thousand employees reiterated the policy that is standard operating procedure for 20 years?

12. Dreamers report you are a racist, xenophobe, and white supremacist. So tell me, why then are you holding public office?

13. I'm the one asking the questions, sir.

14. This committee session bores me to death. Can't wait to get back to the office and eat my Snickers bar.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Kamal-Ho sounded like she was drunk at the last debate...

[GreenHornet]

Kamala Harris’ Presidential Campaign Barely Has a Pulse . . . in California!

This has to be disappointing for her, considering the effort she's put out to get to this point.

[CodeToad]

Considering how much she’s put out to get to where she’s at, I don’t think her vagina can take any more.

[Taxman]

Not only is Miz Harris a harridan, she is a noxious, venomous, LIEberal harridan!

Can you imagine that woman trying to baffle us with her bullshit 24/7 as POTUS?

She is not even a competent US Senator! And, apparently, was not a competent Attorney General, either.

Prime example of the “Peter Principle!” LOL!

Just ask Willie Brown!

[lewislynn]

Kamala Harris = milquetoast

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Horizontal Harris is done.

Drunk driving Irish Bob is done.

Buttplug is done.