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Harris' 2020 campaign was a mess. If she ended up atop the ticket, this time would be a lot different.
NBC News | Comcast ^ | July 21, 2024 | By Peter Nicholas and Katherine Doyle

Posted on 07/21/2024 9:27:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris had one great day in her ill-fated 2020 presidential campaign: her first.

Then came a rapid collapse.

The freshman senator who announced her candidacy in January 2019 before 20,000 cheering supporters in Oakland, Calif. dropped out in December before a single vote had been cast.

Now, Harris may get another shot. As the sitting vice president, she would be a leading candidate to succeed Biden if he succumbs to party pressure and exits the race. Other elected officials might step forward to challenge Harris, dividing Democrats and clouding the general election picture ahead of a November showdown with Donald Trump.

With only a few months to wage a campaign against Trump, Harris couldn't afford to repeat the mistakes that tanked her last presidential bid. There would be little time to recover. Hers would need to be a virtually error-free sprint to Election Day.

A Harris sequel would look nothing like the original, former advisers said. She'd be buoyed by a Democratic Party that would coalesce behind her, desperate to defeat Trump. Donors who've bailed on Biden might take a fresh look at the race with a younger candidate atop the ticket.

“Literally everything” would be different, starting with her pitch to voters, a longtime Harris adviser told NBC News. “It is a three month sprint and not a two year slog."

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Hawaii
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1 posted on 07/21/2024 9:27:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Does she even have a campaign team at all currently?


2 posted on 07/21/2024 9:29:24 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Still the same crow.


3 posted on 07/21/2024 9:29:25 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

LEOPARDS NEVER CHANGE THEIR SPOTS.


4 posted on 07/21/2024 9:29:28 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She couldn’t draw flies within her own party’s primary. Of course, she’ll get the automatic 44% meat puppet votes in the general.


5 posted on 07/21/2024 9:32:24 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She’s a mess!


6 posted on 07/21/2024 9:32:37 AM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ineligible Harris is still ineligible. the only difference in the last 4 years is she’s proven she’s incompetent, too

no, the DNC will have to select new POTUS and Veep candidates, a couple of credible people probably from outside politics as that is a big plus

sports heroes?


7 posted on 07/21/2024 9:33:00 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She’ll first have to convince Moloch that she is a bigger worshiper than Hillary. Then maybe she has a chance.


8 posted on 07/21/2024 9:33:21 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NBC throws a Hail Mary gaslight.


9 posted on 07/21/2024 9:33:25 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump Triumphant !)
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To: caww

As we can see MSM is a long ways from dumping Biden. There are cracks but overall the Protection fortress is holding because Traitor Joe and his skank wife are too selfish to let go so MSM will keep the shields up.


10 posted on 07/21/2024 9:34:59 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nobody really likes her, and that’s the kiss of death in elections that are, to a great extent for the uninformed masses, popularity contests. She isn’t any more likable than she was in 2020. She’s still the phony, cackling, pandering, word-salad-spouting mess she was then. Being fundamentally unlikable killed her campaign last time (as it did Hillary’s), and it would probably kill it this time as well.


11 posted on 07/21/2024 9:45:04 AM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: gibsonguy

Blacks are standing by her to a fault. It’s harder to make it in America wen you are your own worst enemy. Ask O.J.


12 posted on 07/21/2024 9:45:52 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: All
Biden Theme song from Tom Petty:

"I won't back down".

13 posted on 07/21/2024 9:46:48 AM PDT by BipolarBob (First I was called a big fat lair and then showed a certain Lake of Respect.)
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To: BipolarBob

“I won’t Step Down”.


14 posted on 07/21/2024 9:47:32 AM PDT by BipolarBob (First I was called a big fat lair and then showed a certain Lake of Respect.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Democrat brains are so messed up with TDS that they cannot see the as limited as Joe Biden is...he is at least two times better than Kamala Harris...she will be lucky to break 40% of the vote...Biden about 43%...bookmark it.


15 posted on 07/21/2024 9:49:09 AM PDT by bte
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To: gibsonguy

Craziest foolish Demorat leaders ever!.......they pulled off a coup in 2020 and now they’er stuck with whatever happens they can’t get control of....


16 posted on 07/21/2024 9:49:56 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: caww

they pulled off a coup in 2020 and now they’er stuck with whatever happens“

Kinda looks that way.


17 posted on 07/21/2024 9:52:24 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In other words:

They are almost sure they have enough ability to steal votes to get even Harris elected.


18 posted on 07/21/2024 9:53:02 AM PDT by Aeneas2112 (YOU are your own first responder)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“she ... has matured in the past four years.”

NBC: still blowing smoke up everyone’s arses ...

my thought is if a woman her age hasn’t yet matured, it ain’t never going to happen: once a moron, always a moron ...


19 posted on 07/21/2024 9:57:08 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: going hot

Dumber than a box of rocks…


20 posted on 07/21/2024 10:05:44 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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