It was a moment that encapsulated one of the biggest challenges facing her campaign – which, in the end, proved insurmountable. Aides didn’t wait until Harris was off the set to start trying to clean it up. CNN spoke with over a dozen senior Harris campaign aides both in the Wilmington, Delaware, campaign headquarters and on the ground in the states, as well as multiple volunteers and local elected officials, over the course of the final weeks of the race. Biden could have taken on a role as steward and elder statesman, rather than a guy the Harris campaign never knew quite what to do with. And those tensions manifested from almost the start of this short campaign, in the internal wrangling over who Harris should pick as her running mate.

Source: CNN November 07, 2024 00:33 UTC