Do you think Kamala Harris helped the Biden ticket in the end?

[tjstarling]

Biden had +6 favourability in the exit polls compared to Harris +1

Harris had +8 favorable, per CNN exits. Biden +6.

She did on election night and a few days thereafter, but the exits seemed to have been adjusted. The astounding thing to me in the exit poll now - Trump has 50% approval and still lost.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

If Harris came in as a lame duck before 2024/2028, she would be fit for Prez, but let's be real here, Harris is an AA socialist and socialist lost big time in 2020, when Ds failed to get the wave insurance needed to insulate it's House majority or Senate numbers in case 2022 goes the wrong way. But, 2022 can be a neutral election cycle.

2010 and 2014 were so bad for D's due to.unpopularity over Obama. But since more people are on govt healthcare, than back then due to income inequality, Obamacare is much more popular.

Biden should be the nominee in 2024 and Joe Kennedy if elected to Warren seat after she becomes Cabinet Secretary, after 2022 should be the nominee in 2028, he is a blue dog or someone like Sherrod Brown or Fetterman, not AA socialist Harris


But, she is a great motivator for AA and Congressial races like GA

[wildviper121]

If Harris came in as a lame duck before 2024/2028, she would be fit for Prez, but let's be real here, Harris is an AA socialist and socialist lost big time in 2020, when Ds failed to get the wave insurance needed to insulate it's House majority or Senate numbers in case 2022 goes the wrong way. But, 2022 can be a neutral election cycle.

2010 and 2014 were so bad for D's due to.unpopularity over Obama. But since more people are on govt healthcare, than back then due to income inequality, Obamacare is much more popular.

Biden should be the nominee in 2024 and Joe Kennedy if elected to Warren seat after she becomes Cabinet Secretary, after 2022 should be the nominee in 2028, he is a blue dog or someone like Sherrod Brown or Fetterman, not AA socialist Harris


But, she is a great motivator for AA and Congressial races like GA

Ah yes, if there's anyone who can make inroads with the working class it's a political dynast from Boston.

[Motorcity]

I don't think Harris "helped" Biden, but I don't think she hurt him either.

The golden rule when picking a VP... "do not damage"

Biden had a lot of pressure to pick a women. And with the BLM protests, a black women. Anything else would have hurt him greatly.

Of all the possible VPs, Harris was the "do no damage". Biden couldn't pick a police commissioner nor a far left congresswomen.

[BaldEagle1991]

I don't think Harris "helped" Biden, but I don't think she hurt him either.

The golden rule when picking a VP... "do not damage"

Biden had a lot of pressure to pick a women. And with the BLM protests, a black women. Anything else would have hurt him greatly.

Of all the possible VPs, Harris was the "do no damage". Biden couldn't pick a police commissioner nor a far left congresswomen.

Harris was also perfect in a way that most people know who she is.

Anyone else with lower name recognition was going to have their narrative and life been spun by Trump's campaign.

[Statilius the Epicurean]

I doubt Harris activated many voters who weren't already partisan Democrats in the tank for Biden. Likewise, I doubt there were many voters who wanted to vote for Biden but were turned off by Harris.

[dw93]

It was a wash. Duckworth or Karen Bass might've fared better, while Susan Rice, Val Demmings, Stacy Abrams, or Amy Klobuchar would've fared worse.

[Hammy]

I would've said yes before the election given what polling was showing, but now I don't think there was any significant effect one way or another.

[republican1993]

no, like i said from the beginning shes unlikeable.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Karen Bass might've fared better

Come again?

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

Diversity is the Democratic brand. She's a woman of color and a former AG for the nation's largest state, in an election cycle where there are fears of police being disbanded. The Democrats got to have their cake and eat it, too. Sure, the leftists howled in disappointment, but they showed up to vote nonetheless.

Definitely helped the ticket. Freedom pick.

[LtNOWIS]

Picking a random member of Congress would've been risky as hell. They haven't been vetted on the national stage like Kamala was during her primary campaign. Campaigns do their own vetting of course, but they're still more of an unknown factor.

I liked Duckworth a lot, and maybe she would've been better. But as sad as it is to say, I think they were right that the Trump campaign would raise a legal challenge about her place of birth. Maybe that's Biden yielding to bigotry, but it is what it is.

[lfromnj]

Karen Bass might've fared better

Come again?

The popular vote would swing towards Trump based on 100% turnout in Miami dades.

[Blair]

Before Biden made the pick, I looked at the list of top contenders and thought that Val Demings would have been the best choice.

The law and order background might have been useful to sway independents fearful of BLM.

Also, Val Demings is a full black, unlike Kamala Harris.
 

In retrospect Val Demings would have been a good VP pick, she would help keep Florida more competivie(especially central florida) and she is a married woman with children so she can appeal to more voters who are supportive of gender roles. Kamala doesnt have any children and is from California so I wonder if she may hurt him

I don't know who the voters are in Florida are who would vote for a ticket solely because the bottom of the ticket has someone who has represented a small part of the state for only a few years?