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George Skelton: Kamala Harris should never have run for president

SACRAMENTO - California Sen. Kamala Harris should never have run for president in the first place. Her ambition far exceeded her ability.

She hadn't yet established herself in the U.S. Senate. And she hadn't exactly excelled in her previous job as California's attorney general. There wasn't much of a record worth bragging about on the campaign trail.

After being elected to the Senate in a 2016 cakewalk, she should have spent the next three years focused exclusively on representing Californians in Congress, helping the state on such vital issues as water development, environmental

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