Will the Progressive Left Accept Kamala Harris?

#KamalaIsaCop sank her presidential campaign. Will it sink Biden’s?

U.S. Senator Kamala Harris speaking with attendees at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention at the George R. Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California. (photo: Gage Skidmore)

Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager in 2016, who perhaps knows better than anyone the slings and arrows of a hotly contested presidential campaign, has recently warned the Biden campaign to, “think of all the ways Joe Biden could lose this race.”

Good campaign managers, like good poker players and successful generals in wartime, don’t play the hand they are dealt; they play the other guy’s hand.

When all the cards are laid out on the table, when the votes are all in; when the advance guard is crossing the field of battle to engage the enemy, good strategists know it isn’t just about what one side has.

You can become so in love with your own poker hand, so overcome with self-congratulations, so carried away by your own cleverness, that when you make your straight, you don’t see the possible straight flush on the table.

Until it’s too late.

Democrats and the Biden campaign are riding high on the heels of the announcement this week that Senator Kamala Harris of California has been selected as Biden’s running mate.

Or at least they were, until Trump and Jared Kushner stole a march on them. In spite of the usual outpouring of hatred for Trump and…