Vanity Fair has an article asking the question “Why Can’t Kamala Catch Fire?” If you can believe it, the story leaves out her most significant drawback in the eyes of black voters who are the Democrat’s most loyal identity group.
Kamala Harris was famously a prosecutor, at the local level and at the state level in California. What do people seek in a prosecutor? The three word answer is “tough on crime.” Apparently she was that, if media accounts have any validity.
How do black voters feel about the criminal justice system? You wouldn’t describe those feelings as “warm” or “supportive.” For many complicated reasons, only one of which is racism, a disproportionate number of black Americans end up ‘enjoying’ the system’s tender mercies. And who leads the system’s attack on those arrested? Who offers the guilty plea bargains? The prosecutors, people like Harris.
So there are major reasons why the very Democrat constituency to which her candidacy would be inclined to most appeal - black voters - may have lingering discomfort with her role in stashing too many brothers (and sisters) in prison for too long.
