Can Kamala Harris improve her standing with voters? Or does she come into the competitive presidential race as high as she’ll get? I’ve written about Harris’ prospects several times over the last few weeks since the Dump Biden movement began, warning Democrats that Harris turned out to be poor at it in 2019, and then showed even less competence after becoming Vice President.
Just to recall, here’s her favorability chart from RCP. Harris is not starting from scratch, nor does she begin with much good will from the electorate:
If history and starting points mean anything — and sometimes they mean less than we expect — then Democrats just dug themselves a deep hole. Veteran Republican campaign strategist and analyst Alex Castellanos sees the same problem as I have. In a short video he published earlier today, Castellanos predicted that we’ve already seen “peak Kamala” in the polls,…
