With Democratic leaders around the country panicking over President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris has quietly been adding meetings, phone calls, deliberate run-ins made to feel happenstance.
Multiple leading Democrats, anxious about a campaign they fear might be stumbling past a point of no return, say their conversations with Harris have been a surprising and welcome change, after months of feeling sloughed off by the White House and Biden campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware.
“The ‘bedwetting’ complaints are running thin with people,” said a person who attended one of the meetings, describing the general state of anxiety circulating in top Democratic circles. “The West Wing and the campaign need to be better.”
This is more or less the same mistake Hillary Clinton’s campaign made in 2016.