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This post captures why that Harris profile drove me nuts. Astead Herndon is a good, professional reporter, definitely not a hack, but he is also very clearly *not* out to get Kamala Harris. She should have seen his piece as an opportunity to reintroduce herself to the public. (She may *think* he's out to get her because he accurately covered the embarrassing collapse of her presidential campaign.)
*I* think she should go in the Yglesias/Barro direction, but if she wanted to double down on some k…
Great comment - and also wanted to point out that Hillary was a better politician than a lot of people want to acknowledge - she increased her vote share for NY Senate from 55% to 67% and flipped a lot of counties from red to blue.
I'm not a fan of HRC, but she really, really wanted to win. When she was losing to Obama she went to West Virginia and did whisky shots at a rural bar.
If Hillary had run in 2016 with the same kind of intensity that she ran against Obama with, she would have won.
She thought she was running away with that election and would win more decisively than Obama had against McCain.
This wasn't nuts, a lot of people thought the same thing after Access Hollywood, including Trump himself. He was visibly shaken and uncertain when he gave his victory speech.
I still think it was a disastrous choice to pick Hillary. Biden or even Bernie would have done better and won. But I do understand what she and her supporters were thinking in 2016. Whereas the Harris pitch is: Harris will lose and it will be your fault.