BaylorFTW said:
This is interesting because she was one of the hand picked candidates. In theory, this could open the door a bit for a dark horse like Bloomberg.
Handpicked.
From WSJ
From "Why Kamala Harris is the new Democratic Frontrunner" by Chris Cillizza and Harry Enten, CNN.com, Nov. 12, 2018. Ms. Harris announced Tuesday that she was suspending her campaign:If there's one lesson Democrats should learn from the 2018 election, it's this: Their base wants to make history.
Democratic voters helped elect a historic number of women to Congress. They elected the first Muslim-American women. . . . They voted in the first Native-American women. . . . Everywhere you looked on the map last Tuesday night, Democratic voters were backing womenand oftentimes women of color.
Which brings us to the 2020 Democratic presidential race. And specifically to California Sen. Kamala Harris. . . . We've always ranked Harris highly in these rankingsdue to the importance of California within the broader Democratic Party and the number of major donors in the state who would gladly help fund Harris' national ambitions.But the 2018 election convinced us that
Harris seems to be exactly what Democratic voters are telling the party and its politicians they want representing them going forward. A young-ishshe's 54non-white woman, Harris looks like the Democratic Party base these days. And if 2020 is anything like 2018, that's a very good place for her to be.
Add it all up, and we've got a new #1 on our 2020 rankings!