Her problem can be translating that right into a public persona, which is — and let’s be blunt about this — a tough factor to do whenever you’ve grown up in a world that has all the time been fast to search out your faults. A world that’s afraid of ladies being offended, of Black individuals being offended. A world the place, for many of your life, it was demanded of you that you simply be cautious and cautious and measured and by no means make a mistake. And then you definately get on the general public stage and other people say, oh, you’re too cautious and too cautious and too measured. It’s a really, very, very arduous bind to get out of. However perhaps she will be able to do it.
Nonetheless, it’s the social gathering’s job to prepare victory. If Harris can’t persuade delegates that she has the perfect shot at victory, she mustn’t and doubtless wouldn’t be chosen. And I don’t assume that might rip the social gathering aside. There’s a ton of expertise within the Democratic Occasion proper now: Gretchen Whitmer, Wes Moore, Jared Polis, Gavin Newsom, Raphael Warnock, Josh Shapiro, Cory Booker, Ro Khanna, Pete Buttigieg, Gina Raimondo, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Chris Murphy, Andy Beshear, J.B. Pritzker — the listing goes on.
A few of them would make a run on the nomination. They’d give speeches on the conference, and other people would truly listen. The entire nation can be watching the Democratic conference, and doubtless fairly a bit taking place within the run-up to it, and seeing what this assassin’s row of political expertise might truly do. After which some ticket can be chosen based mostly on how these individuals did.
Might it go badly? Positive. However that doesn’t imply it’s going to go badly. It might make the Democrats into essentially the most thrilling political present on earth. And over there on the opposite aspect shall be Trump getting nominated and a who’s who of MAGA sorts slavering over his management. The very best of the Democratic Occasion in opposition to the worst of the Republican Occasion. A celebration that truly listened to the voters in opposition to a celebration that denies the end result of the elections. A celebration that did one thing totally different over a celebration that has once more nominated a menace to democracy who has by no means — not as soon as — gained the favored vote in a common election.
That looks like an OK distinction to me.
Sure, the Democratic Occasion has been successful elections just lately. However it’s successful these elections partly as a result of it takes candidate recruitment critically. That was true in 2020. Biden wasn’t the candidate that set the bottom’s coronary heart aflutter, however he appeared just like the candidate with the perfect shot at successful. So Democrats did the strategic factor and picked him. And so they gained. In 2022, Democrats rigorously selected candidates who match their districts, who match their states whereas Republicans selected MAGA-soaked extremists. And that’s the reason these Democrats gained.
