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Kamala Harris Campaign Teetering
Self-inflicted wounds may have doomed a once-promising campaign.
With impeachment ever a dubious proposition, even during the height of Russia-mania, and the Trump campaign cash machine running night and day, incumbent Republicans have had few fears lately as we head into 2020.
Former Vice President Joe Biden was never a serious threat to Trump on anything but paper. Biden had the qualifications, sure. He even had a bit of the old Obama administration magic.
But anyone who has watched even one of Joe Biden’s feeble debate performances has noticed the weakness, the stumbles, the gaffes, the tendency to misspeak, worsening all the time. Even against fellow Democrats, opponents who were strangely unwilling to take a shot at him, Biden did poorly by any metric.
The only advantage Joe Biden might have had in a head-to-head debate matchup with a loud-mouthed New York street brawler like Donald Trump would have been in making viewers feel sorry enough for him to vote Biden.
With Biden all but out of the race on poor fundraising numbers and weak debate performances, all eyes turned next towards talented ingenue Mayor Pete Buttigieg as he pivoted to the moderate territory.
But a series of missteps has left the Buttigieg campaign polling at zero with African-American…