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In early 2019, then-Sen. Kamala Harris secured her spot as the next vice presidential running mate by doing one thing: announcing her own 2020 presidential campaign. The Democratic Party had its sights set on beating President Donald Trump in 2020, no matter what. In the minds of left-leaning voters and politicians alike, the country had to be saved from four more years of Trump. There was no room for error. It also meant that Harris’s presidential campaign was essentially dead on arrival.
Her campaign lasted just shy of 11 total months and didn’t even live to see election year. In fact, Harris’s campaign was so overlooked that it fizzled out right around the time Montana Gov. Steve Bullock and former Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Sestak each suspended theirs. Even feel-good spiritualist Marianne Williamson lasted longer. In the end, Harris blamed finances: “My campaign for president simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue,” she wrote. “I’m not a billionaire. I can’t fund my own campaign. And as the campaign has gone on, it’s become harder and harder to raise the money we need to compete.”
By early March 2020, the presumptive Democratic nominee was former Vice President Joe Biden. At a debate in D.C., Biden declared he would “pick a woman to be vice president” if he won the nomination. His stated commitment to both gender and racial diversity was all but a tacit endorsement of his former opponent Harris. The senator filled the correct boxes in terms of biology and preferred resume, and many Democrats felt appeased by the inclusion of a younger, progressive counter, and possible successor, to Biden. The gamble worked, and Trump was gone.
A mere nine months have passed since Biden was sworn in as the 46th president. With Donald Trump out of office, things have changed. A case can be made that certain norms have returned. But not being Trump doesn’t make one a competent executive fit to lead our nation toward a better…
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