Looking back at Kamala Harris’s disastrous 2020 campaign

Published July 23, 2024 12:24pm ET



After President Joe Biden dropped out of the election on Sunday, he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee, a position she sought last election cycle. However, if her 2024 campaign is anything like her 2020 campaign, it will be a catastrophe.

Harris announced her bid for president in January 2019 and tied Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) all-time 24-hour fundraising record. She then held a campaign kickoff event with a crowd of 20,000 people, which was even larger than former President Barack Obama’s campaign launch in 2007. In the beginning, it looked like her campaign had momentum.

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