The one thing the Democratic Party is not supposed to be is anti-democratic - a party in which insiders select the nominee from the top down, not the bottom up, and which expects the rank and file to fall in line and clap enthusiastically. That's the playbook of ruling parties in autocratic states. It's also a recipe for failure.
The whole point of a competitive process, even a truncated one, is to discover unsuspected strengths, which is how Obama was able to best Clinton in 2008, and to test for hidden weakness, which is how Harris flamed out as a candidate the last time, before even reaching the Iowa caucus.
Weaknesses such as: She's unpopular: As of July 22, only 38.3 percent of Americans approve of Harris, as against 51.4 percent who don't, according to 538. She has not had a positive approval rate since September 2021.
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