As Harris considers the CA governor race, she is prepared?

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A few weeks ago, Kamala Harris received the full treatment of New York Times – prolonged article Speculating whether she will run for governor of California next year or prepare for another shot at the White House in 2028.

As The Times will not do, the piece was full of quotes and assumptions from anonymous sources.

“Interviews with more than three dozen from G -ja Harris advisers, former assistants, allies and friends reveal a politician – as well as everything, for her caution – standing on perhaps her most crucial crossroads so far,” says Times in a piece with four baylings.

“After 22 years as a selected employee, she has to decide whether or how, in order to continue her political career in an environment that has been reworked by her defeat.

“Some Harris’s assistants believe that she will automatically be the front competitor in a crowded primary field, thanks to her recognition of a name and a wide network of donors and supporters.

“But many more democrats argue against another offer of Harris-President: The 2028 election will be a competition for the future of the party, in which it will be perceived as a figure from the past, reasoning continues. Others say that Democrats will not nominate another woman, fearing that the country is too sexist.”

The article more or less pointed out the rubberian running instead of waiting 2028.

“G -ja Harris has a good reason to lean to run for a governor, according to people who have talked to her,” the Times said. “She observed with horror, while the institutions for which the Democrats care for – universities, law firms and others – have focused on pressure.

There are two things in the article.

The first is that she threw Harris’s situation almost entirely about the advancement of her political career, an example of the tendency of political journalism to cover politics as something like a reporting of sports events – who wins, who is losing, who is and who is down – not a prelude to government.

This approach, though attractive to political drug addicts, completely ignores the issues that a politician may face if he is lucky to be selected. In this case, The Times implied that the 2026 elections for the governor who would lead the world’s Fourth largest economy is just for opposing Donald Trump and nothing else.

The article contained no sentence on California issues that Harris would inherit from Gavin Newpom if she became a manager – such thorny questions as eternal shortage of dwellingsHomelessness, poverty, uncertain water supply, disadvantages in education and chronic deficits of the state budget.

After ignoring these problems, all of which precedes Trump, the second deficit of the Times article is that it contains nothing about Harris’s abilities or the lack of them to stand up to them. And there is a good reason to doubt if he will handle the work.

During her climbing up the political ladder, Harris’s record was mixed – at the best case. As a Prosecutor General of the State, she was most famous for strictly orchestrated media events rather than with essential actionsS She even threw Capitol’s debate about changing the penal system.

As a senator, she is not the author of remarkable legislation, even on issues oriented towards California, while the late Senator Diane Feinstein sustainably carried the political water of the state. Harris’s campaign for president in 2020 was a disaster, and after being elected as Joe Biden’s ruling half, she did not see Vice President.

Managing an extremely complex country like California is a discouraging task, as any previous governor could testify, not a comforting award for the loss of a presidential competition.

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