Vice President Kamala Harris is the favored candidate to win the Democratic presidential nomination after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race. While anything could happen between now and the Democratic National Convention in August, the vice president appears to have enough support to become the party’s standard bearer in the upcoming election.
However, opinion columnists at the New York Times do not seem as enthused about shilling for Harris as they would with other candidates. In a recent column, the news outlet had eight of its columnists and contributors chime in on each potential contender for the nomination using two metrics: How “electable” and “exciting” the candidate is.
The columnists rated Harris’ electability at 4.6 out of 10 and her ability to excite voters at 5.8. Every other candidate was rated higher than Harris in terms of electability.
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