Media Is Failing To Discuss The Kamala Harris's 'Disaster' Campaign For 2020 Nomination: Frank Luntz

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On "Forbes Newsroom," Frank Luntz discussed Vice President Kamala Harris's poor campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

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00:00If we take a stroll down memory lane and think about 2019 and the 2020 election,

00:06Kamala Harris dropped out of the presidential race before Iowa.

00:09So what do you think were her biggest mistakes of that campaign?

00:13And what does she need to switch because she does not have much runway left?

00:18Okay, I need to give you credit for this, which is that I've been on a number of shows

00:22and almost all the interviewers who've asked me these questions have forgotten

00:28or choose to forget 2019.

00:31It was a disaster for her.

00:33She raised tens of millions of dollars.

00:35She made a splash in the first debate by attacking Biden and trying to racialize the election.

00:41It's the only way you can call it because it was on the issue of busing and

00:45suggesting that Joe Biden didn't care about little black children.

00:51Everyone's forgotten that she didn't even make it to January.

00:56That Democrats, the people who are supposed to respond to that message, did not.

01:02And that her polling numbers, she's been the most unpopular vice president since Dan Quayle.

01:10And that's almost 40 years ago.

01:13So yeah, she does have a bad track record.

01:15I do understand that most Americans forget and that four years ago was a long time.

01:23But you can be sure that the Republicans and Trump are going to be reminding people

01:28of what they disliked about Harris.

01:31I just don't want to get trapped in the idea that just because she failed then,

01:36she's going to succeed now.

01:37I'm sorry, that she's going to fail now.

01:39And just because she's the flavor of the month right now,

01:44doesn't mean that she won't fall into the same trap that she did in 2019.

01:48This is a very relevant conversation to have, but it's not happening on other news sources.

01:54And I'm glad that you raised it because it's important.

02:00I've seen some of the initial polling and she's getting Joe Biden's vote plus a percent.

02:09But that's still not enough for her to win.

02:12But I'm also seeing the fundraising, the social media,

02:16the people signing up to join her campaign.

02:19And I'm looking at this and thinking, wow, this is something we've never seen before.

02:24So you got both sides of the argument and that viewers and people who are involved in this

02:31process deserve to hear both perspectives.

02:34And I don't know how to bring both perspectives, except for this conversation.

Media Is Failing To Discuss The Kamala Harris's 'Disaster' Campaign For 2020 Nomination: Frank Luntz

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