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Perhaps the most critical break she could make with Biden would be to suggest that she intends to select new chairs for the FTC, SEC, FCC, and put her own people in DOJ (AG, Deputy AG, Associate AG, and Assistant AGs for Antitrust, Civil, Criminal, and National Security). Biden's "great compromise" in putting Warren/Sanders acolytes in heavy-duty positions impacting the real economy has cost him dearly, jeopardizing (if not outright sacrificing) the goodwill and support Obama and Clinton secured from the tech and finance sectors (among others). That might not move many voters, but would go a long way towards bringing back a major source of funding and technical support that Democrats previously enjoyed.

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?? She doesn't need more money, she needs to move some voters.

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Interesting thought. Has to be a little bit quiet in a couple of areas (FTC particularly) to avoid having to overcompensate in placating inevitably ruffled feathers to the left, although I agree that Harris:

1) Has some maneuvering room.

2) Has a better overall record/acceptability range with the broad tech n' finance Ds, surprisingly enough going back even to her terrible 2019 run (of course Warren and Sanders were both running then, so perhaps Harris was a hedge, but IIRC she got more early money from the finance and tech donors than Biden did).

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Hmm, one possibility (tricky to execute) might be to quite explicity and deliberately defenestrate a couple of high profile Hamas apologists (yes, I know the whole Sister Souljah business was in many ways a brushback on Jesse Jackson and his apparat; still, I think it worked pretty well for WJC - granted in a very different time).

Maybe make a point of more visibly embracing some moderate Black mayors, especially those who were in office during the 2020 insanity.

I'm not sure how Cherelle Parker's popularity is running these days - I certain viewed her defeat of Gym in the no-runoff D primary as "progress").

Keisha Lance-Bottoms is probably too far past sell date these days.

If Harris' staff can locate a sufficiently high profile individual Hamas apologist who is also a Maduro apologist I wonder ...

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There are no high-profile Hamas apologists.

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So persuasive, I wish I hadn’t read it. But I gotta read Millman. I can’t resist.

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Harris is not ideological. Republicans are trying to paint her as far left, it isn't sticking because regardless of a few positions she took in a primary, her deepest identity is prosecutor, and it shows, in her bearing, her style, and her words.

Her bearing and style are extraordinary, along with her identity she can excite the base and attract younger voters. The whole convention coded moderate, she is not paying a price for that because of her charisma. Romney never had that luxury, he had to, gruesomely at times, put himself in hock.

The undecided voters who want to know who she is aren't ideological either. If they were they wouldn't be undecided! They certainly aren't policy oriented. But they are unhappy, they don't want more of the same. In the debate she separated herself as a person "clearly I'm not Biden". That might work for those voters! She clearly isn't, she is vibrant, expressive, and has a commanding air. She can't say it, but will these voters blame her for the economy or Afghanistan? These voters aren't sophisticated, but they know a VP has no power.

Maybe atmospherics are enough because she is exceptional at them and her opponent is a criminal. She is holding her base without paying them off, and for the apolitical she offers charisma with responsibility. Not so bad to be a prosecutor right now.

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