Death Knell for Kamala Harris for the People

Really all that is left for "Kamala Harris for the People" (read the resignation letter of its state operations director Kelly Mehlenbacher) is for its candidate to drop out. All the delicious details can be found in "How Kamala Harris’s Campaign Unraveled" by Jonathan Martin, Astead Herndon and Alexander Burns:

Many of her own advisers are now pointing a finger directly at Ms. Harris. In interviews several of them criticized her for going on the offensive against rivals, only to retreat, and for not firmly choosing a side in the party’s ideological feud between liberals and moderates. She also created an organization with a campaign chairwoman, Maya Harris, who goes unchallenged in part because she is Ms. Harris’s sister, and a manager, Mr. Rodriguez, who could not be replaced without likely triggering the resignations of the candidate’s consulting team. Even at this late date, aides said it’s unclear who’s in charge of the campaign.

With just over two months until the Iowa caucuses, her staff is now riven between competing factions eager to belittle one another, and the candidate’s relationship with Mr. Rodriguez has turned frosty, according to multiple Democrats close to Ms. Harris. Several aides, including Jalisa Washington-Price, the state director in crucial South Carolina, have already had conversations about post-campaign jobs.

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But her troubles go beyond staffing and strategy: Her financial predicament is dire. The campaign has not taken a poll or been able to afford TV advertising since September, and it has all but quit buying Facebook ads in the last two months. Her advisers, after months of resistance, have only now signaled their desire for a group of former aides to begin a super PAC to finance an independent political effort on her behalf.

To some Democrats who know Ms. Harris, her struggles indicate larger limitations.

“You can’t run the country if you can’t run your campaign,” said Gil Duran, a former aide to Ms. Harris and other California Democrats who’s now the editorial page editor of the Sacramento Bee.

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Yet it has come to this: After beginning her candidacy with a speech before 20,000 people in Oakland, some of Ms. Harris’s longtime supporters believe she should consider dropping out in late December — the deadline for taking her name off the California primary ballot — if she does not show political momentum. Some advisers are already bracing for a primary challenge, potentially from the billionaire Tom Steyer, should she run for re-election to the Senate in 2022. Her senior aides plan to assess next month whether she’s made sufficient progress to remain in the race.

Interestingly Tulsi Gabbard's attack on Harris' record as a prosecutor during the July debate is acknowledged by insiders as the dividing line of the campaign.

Martin et al. don't trouble themselves with what Harris' demise means for the Democratic primary as a whole. Harris was the anointed -- a Clinton-Obama twofer -- a chic woman of color who hailed from the Golden State. The fact that "Kamala Harris for the People" has collapsed so completely spells trouble for the Democratic National Committee.

The Democratic electorate has joined much of the planet in open rebellion. Poll-testing sappy Reaganesque slogans no longer guarantees votes.

The frenzy from here on out is how the Democratic Party oligarchy is going to pacify this rebellion.

I think we've already been given a hint. Obama will be deployed to attack Sanders and Warren. The beautiful thing is that it won't make a bit of difference; in fact, it should boomerang.