Opinion: Could Kamala Harris be the anti-Biden?
By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 23 at 1:30 PM Like no other candidate in the presidential race, Sen. Kamala D. Harris can create viral moments in which her intellect and presence rivet our attention and command our respect. She filleted Attorney General William P. Barr as no other Senate Judiciary Committee member could.
— Kamala Harris May 23, 2019 Boiling down important but boring policy matters and abstract concepts to punchy, amusing nuggets may not help you govern, but it sure helps you get elected. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s 57 plans with 14 sub-parts may indicate her policy prowess and work ethic, but they might not be explainable in a one-minute debate answer. Unfortunately, our politics now is much more likely to reward rhetorical jujitsu than meticulous policy craftsmanship.
However, Harris’s biggest problem may be that most voters simply don’t know her or know enough about her. In the same Quinnipiac poll, 34 percent of Democrats didn’t know enough about her to render an opinion. That’s an asset in one sense, though; she has a vast audience who have no fixed views about her. The latest Monmouth poll suggests that her appeal increases when she is introduced to voters.
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