And Mr. Biden was personally stung by her attack, his advisers said, because he considered her a friend. More significant than their personal rapport, a Harris endorsement of Mr. Biden would be politically useful for both of them. The risk for Ms. Harris would be if she were to get behind Mr. Biden only to see him lose in California, which votes on March 3 as part of Super Tuesday. A survey of the state’s Democratic voters, conducted this month by the Public Policy Institute of California survey, found that Mr. Biden was in second place to Mr. Sanders, of Vermont. Rose Kapolczynski, a longtime Democratic strategist in California, said Ms. Harris would not damage her prospects for re-election in 2022 by backing Mr. Biden.

Source: New York Times January 24, 2020 00:56 UTC