Kamala

I wrote yesterday that the door seems to be closing on an alternative candidate to replace Biden unless Nancy worked her magic. Looks like I was wrong about the closing door. Reports today make it appear that Nancy worked her magic and Biden is seriously considering stepping out of the race. That is good news in my opinion. Don’t think we could have won with him at the head of the ticket. By the way, I don’t make much of Kamala’s approval numbers. That they are close to Biden’s is to be expected. Assuming she is the nominee — and that is most likely — and moves into the public eye, her numbers, I believe, will go up as voters get to know her and her plans for the country.

Vice President Harris isn’t Kamala Harris the presidential primary candidate of four years ago. To the contrary, four years as the Vice President representing the Biden administration in public forums has allowed her to tweak her communication skills and familiarize herself with national and global issues as well as various policy matters. No one else on the short list of presidential aspirants can make that claim nor draw from the experience to contest and upbraid Trump as much as she can. Finally, as presidential candidate Harris, she doesn’t have to defend every policy of the administration over the past four years. She can stake out her own approach to various issues.