Joe Biden’s Clear Road Back From Kamala Harris Debate Debacle
Harris is riding high, but she – along with Sanders and Warren – has an Achilles’ heel on health insurance.
That smile sure faded quickly
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When presidential fields form, the relatively small number of people who are paying attention at the beginning evaluate the candidates based on how well-known they are, their strengths of support from important constituencies, the distinctive features of their biographies, how much money they have raised, and so on. But there’s also the question of their political talents, and it’s one that can only be answered in the course of a presidential campaign.
During the 2016 primary season, a lot of Republicans thought Senator Marco Rubio of Florida had great promise -- but they also had doubts about him. Watching him stick robotically to talking points under a sustained assault from Chris Christie in a debate that February tended to confirm those doubts, and helped to eliminate him from the race.