The Commonwealth Foundation’s Andre Beliveau on how Kamala Harris’ energy stances and previous support for fracking and offshore drilling bans could impact her electability.
For someone whose only job the last four years was to be ready, Vice President Kamala Harris may be the least-prepared major party nominee in the history of American elections. Entering the ring against one of the most-skilled political street fighters of our generation, Harris has few weapons at her disposal.
The DNC Convention in Chicago will be designed to obscure her obvious political deficiencies. But a performance before the home crowd will do little to sharpen a candidate who has too long shielded herself from reality.
Harris comes into the race with no road-tested policy agenda, limited practice with unscripted political interactions, egregiously bad political instincts, no private sector work experience and a history of poor staff management. In her role as vice president, she could have spent four years sharpening all of these skills. But instead, she stayed in a cocoon and hid from the press.
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