Why have some of Kamala's folks been exasperated w her tendency to bow to, or at least risk angering, the left? Her campaign tested her prosecutorial record w Dem primary voters - and it does little damage to her, per sources familiar with the polling.
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The private health insurance and prisoners voting answers - both on cnn town halls - drew the most national attention. But when Kamala went on
@PodSaveAmerica last month and eased away from her longstanding tough-on-truancy record, it caused significant heartburn w her teamShow this thread -
The big pic on her reset: Kamala is grappling more openly w the same challenge all the Dems are: how to build an early state foundation and break into the (ever more important) national conversation when Trump consumes so much oxygen and there are two-dozen candidates
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But this is an even more delicate moment for Kamala bc the entry of Biden, who her campaign has been watching like a hawk, complicates her path.
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...and speaking of Biden, read
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The advice
@KamalaHarris is getting from inside and outside her campaign, via Iowa’s@sdvorsky1 > “You’re not going to get to the left of@BernieSanders and nobody should try”Show this thread
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"Ms. Harris has carefully navigated the currents of her party since she was first elected district attorney in San Francisco, avoiding confrontations with the left that could slow her ascent.." - Trying to play the middle w/o pissing people off is a losing strategy.
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Reset? She's great. Try to give positive rather than negative news about women for a change instead of fawning over a lightweight like Buttigeig or even Biden.
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Good. We’ve never needed one more.
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