1) as shown in that SC primary, he did really, really badly with the southern African-American core of the party

2) I think his record as Sec. of Transportation isn't great. Admittedly, there have been more and more of these problems as the US infrastructure was already at the point of collapse, things like the East Palestine derailment were the inevitable result of prior moronic deregulation, and supply chain issues were global. But I never felt like he was ever really on top of stuff the way I'd hoped

Edited to add: no doubt some of that is a hint of my disappointment with the structure of the Biden administration. I had an idea going in that by placing really skilled people in those Cabinet positions that the administration was going to run a bit more in parallel.  It still ended up being a very executive-focused approach.

I suppose he thinks he's being clever?

He’s just dumb enough to make this perfectly plausible.  

@Jozef

So that's how it feels to be inFOXicaed.

She has also (so far) not spoken to much outside her obvious comfort zone, either in topics or demographically. She has also been quoted asa saying she doesn't enjoy the tedium of campaigning. She needs to do all three and convincingly well if she hopes to win over independents, which is where the difference in the election lies in those three or four battleground states. 

If we're genuinely going to be objective, then let's face facts: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, a cinder block with a smiley face painted on it... there are literally innumerous choices for a better Presidential candidate than Donald Trump.

Trump is, according to most performance measures across the spectrum of effective governance and intellectual capability, a dangerously bad parody of an idiot; I imagine he'd have to use something like the Krell's "plastic educator" from Forbidden Planet just to boost his IQ from Imbecile to Moron.

In my humble opinion, the Democrats have already lost a great deal by bickering internally about Biden. They should now simply press ahead and focus on attacking Trump rather than defending Kamala.

I love being called a communist, marxist, fascist who is not only killing our Country, but thousands of babies up to birth and sometimes after, on a daily basis.

Yeah, that's not dangerous rhetoric that's going to cause some MAGA nutjob to take it out on liberals.

Again, given that the election will come down to just four states or so, I wonder how much that dynamic plays out in the battleground states.