Is Kamala Harris a liability or a secret weapon? What Biden campaign insiders really think
Is Kamala Harris a liability or Joe Biden’s secret weapon? It depends who you talk to — but the sentiments in Bidenworld trend toward the latter.
It’s unclear, then, what the campaign’s latest moves mean.
Recent polling shows that support for Mr Biden is slipping among Black voters in key swing states. Clearly, if Ms Harris is needed anywhere, it’s there: Her popularity among Black voters — especially Black women voters — is well-known. Yet she has instead been deployed repeatedly in recent weeks to South Carolina, a state that will have absolutely zero impact on the November election.
Ms Harris took two separate trips there this month alone, for a total of eight since she became vice president in January 2021.
When accompanied the vice president on one of
