Kamala Harris's Vibe Spiral

 From The Transom:

A campaign that can be reduced to “I am not physically the same person as Joe Biden” is a campaign in desperate need of a message. The problem for Kamala is that time’s a-wasting — and she seems to be tracking not toward finding her footing, but toward new speed-bumps, including ones set up by the very media figures who very much want her to win.

Check the Univision town hall for another example of this. This should be cupcake, a lay-up to a friendly audience. Instead, Harris gets bogged down with meandering answers about what she’ll do as president motivated by some aggressive restraint to taking any solid positions, while also sounding too far left for much of the country. Her policy plans include a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegals to turn them into voters. And she treated a voter with a totally straightforward question about her abrupt path to the nomination as if it wasn’t a concern. The approach toward dismissal is consistent with the Biden White House’s approach — see Secretary Mayorkas, who has turned being an irresponsible jackass into an artform during his tenure — but it’s exactly the wrong note for her to be sounding right now.... (Read more.)