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The abortion debate is giving Kamala Harris a moment. But voters still aren't sold

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks with actress Sophia Bush during a Fight For Reproductive Freedoms event at the Mexican Heritage Plaza on Jan. 29, 2024, in San Jose, California.

PHOENIX — When a group of crossover voters was asked during a focus group about Vice President Kamala Harris, their assessments were brutal: If she is helping Biden, you don't see it. She rubs me the wrong way. She was picked because she is a demographic. The big things she had, she failed.

The comments, fair or not, represent a problem for President Joe Biden and for Harris, echoed in interviews with voters here in Arizona, a key swing state where Harris spoke on Friday. More than three years into the oldest president in history's first term, his understudy has failed to win over a majority of voters or convince them that she is ready to step in if Biden falters, according to polls.

"Swing voters don't like her," said Gunner Ramer, political director for a group called Republican Voters Against Trump, which allowed the Los Angeles Times

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