Democrats’ rush to Kamala Harris bypasses the question of who has the best chance of beating Trump.
Tony Tribby wears a T-shirt in support of Vice President Harris outside of the White House on Sunday.
That is to say: Both are obvious fictions. Democrats coalesced around the fiction of Biden’s acuity during the primary season. Now that Biden has dropped out, they are adopting the fiction that “” to take on Trump in Biden’s stead. Any prospect of a competitive nomination process is evaporating as Democratic politicians — even those previously mooted as possible Biden replacements should he step aside — stampede to Harris.
The argument for embracing Harris by acclamation anyway is apparently that the Democrats can’t afford internal discord when the focus should be on defeating Trump. That argument served Democrats badly when they allowed Biden to glide through the primaries without a debate.
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