Thread by @Peoples_Pundit

1. Save for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris is without a doubt the most handled candidate in the field. She had been practicing those canned debate lines for weeks and weeks.

Let's not fool ourselves into thinking that's indicative, because it hasn't been.

https://twitter.com/Barnes_Law/status/1144707655296016385

2. Out of the gate, Kamala Harris was the pick of the "new establishment" Democratic Party. They want to run against Donald Trump as a full blown racist, B/C economic campaign is out of the question for now, and she's the best to do it.

But... she stumbled badly, wasn't ready.

3. Those stumbles scared a lot of Democrats and they begun to wonder/fear that Kamala Harris was not ready for primetime. Geriatric Joe Biden comes along and for a while Obama Nostalgia put Harris in the corner. She had weeks to practice this comeback, and was ready.

But...

4. Just B/C we're back to discussing her performance, does not mean that those fears were unwarranted. Look, even after weeks and weeks of practice and handling by image and policy experts, she still can't get her positions straight.

These are big issues. You can't redo/undo it.

5. So, as @Barnes_Law pointed out, this is now the FOURTH time Kamala Harris has flip-flopped on this issue, and it's not the only big issue.

It's a tell that perhaps some of the commentary is premature, and that some of those earlier fears weren't unwarranted.

That said...

6. Joe Biden is running on nostalgia. Kamala Harris at least checks off all the boxes for liberal orthodoxy, a "first" [fill in the blank president].

That wishful thinking bleeds into their commentary.