I think it's really important that Obama and Pelosi also had no faith in Harris, pushed the blitz primary idea, and therefore cut Harris off at the knees before she even started.
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Right. It was really an all or nothing thing. Part of why I didn't want them to switch (irrespective of my personal preference) was that I wasn't confident we'd get a completely unified push.
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It ended up looking more unified than I expected. I felt pretty hopeful at the time. But it was absolutely the case that the media did not let up on Harris.
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It was actually crushing to me than that level of unity didn’t matter in the end, it was a lot more than I expected. Trump hardly campaigned and it didn’t matter.
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Biden, of course, also shares a lot of the blame for keeping Harris sidelined during the administration precisely *because* he did not want people to look to her as a successor.
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I'll never forget sitting next to a couple of Bros, about 2 weeks before the 2016 election, and they were both agreeing with each other that "I'm voting for Trump, he'll shake things up" "Shake things up" - that was the sum total of their political calculus.
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