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Polls Showed Kamala Harris Struggled to Reach Black Voters. That's Changing
New polls suggest support for Kamala Harris as Joe Biden's running mate.
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She also trailed behind Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and in more recent polls, behind Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, with one November Quinnipiac University poll showing Harris flagging with 6 percent of support from Black voters, compared with Biden's 44 percent, Sanders' 10 percent and Warren's 8 percent.
So, what changed today about Harris, that in 2019, she had to drop out of the 2020 campaign? She wasn't popular then and couldn't even pull in black votes. Warren got more black voters to vote for her than Harris. Everyone seems to overestimate her.
Today
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Why Kamala Harris’s Campaign Failed
Kamala Harris dropped out of the presidential race on Tuesday, and she’s probably the most significant candidate to do so to date. The senator from California w…
But it’s also possible that pundits like me overestimated her chances from the start.
Kamala Harris presidential campaign, 2020
Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics
Tom Steyer had more interest and I don't even know that fkr.