Earlier this fall, one of Joe Biden's closest aides felt compelled to tell the president a hard truth about Kamala Harris's run for the presidency: "You have more to lose than she does." And now he's lost it. Joe Biden cannot escape the fact that his four years in office paved the way for the return of Donald Trump. This is his legacy. Everything else is an asterisk.
Although the Biden advisers I spoke with were reluctant to say anything negative about Harris as a candidate, they did level critiques of her campaign, based on the months they'd spent strategizing in anticipation of the election. Embedded in their autopsies was their own unstated faith that they could have done better.
One critique holds that Harris lost because she abandoned her most potent attack. Harris began the campaign portraying Trump as a stooge of corporate interests—and touted herself as a relentless scourge of Big Business.
David A. Graham: What Trump understood, and Harris did not. While Harris was stuck defending the Biden economy, and hobbled by lingering anger over inflation, attacking Big Business.
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