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In all likelihood, former Vice President Kamala Harris is done with electoral politics. Her brand is too damaged. She is too closely associated with the chaos and dysfunction of the Biden presidency. And she still has never won an election outside of a deep-blue state. Even in her home state of California, Democrats prefer not only Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) over her but former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as well.