Opinion: Yesterday, Kamala Harris was just another overbaked politician. Today, she’s fresh as can be, and the press corps can’t stop salivating
wrote when Harris left the race, she never conveyed a convincing reason for running for the presidency outside of simply wanting the job.’ revisionist view, Harris possesses “a gift for capturing moments of raw political electricity on the debate stage and elsewhere,” but neglects to mention in that passage that her so-called gift contributed to her political electrocution when she went at Biden so hard on busing and race.
The press turn-around signifies a couple of things. First, political journalism resembles sports writing more than anybody cares to admit. If somebody gets beaten—or, like Harris, bails out before the voting even begins—the political journalists and sportswriters feel compelled to sift the results to explain how that end was so inevitable as to be predictable. Losers must be portrayed as losers, complete with all the failure analysis you can pack into a story.
The tenor of the coverage is also informed by the press corps’ deep sense of boredom. Thanks to Biden’s early victory, Covid-19 and the mostly virtual conventions, the campaign has been sunk in mud for so long and so deep it can’t even spin its wheels. The sound reporters are making is one of gratitude—for something new and different to write about other than two old guys throwing spitballs at each other.
Harris also benefits from a dynamic we see every political cycle, driven by the old Washington currency of access. Every veep pick receives a certain amount of flattering coverage upon her selection in part because the same reporters will likely be covering her in the administration if her ticket wins; the reporters who wrote most fulsomely stand a better chance of gaining access.
From now until November, keep this fact in mind as you scan the campaign dispatches and commentary for pulled punches.
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