I voted for Kamala Harris – but I’m not surprised she lost

In the end I voted for Kamala Harris, but I always knew she was destined to lose. After all, if Harris had trouble convincing me—a mixed gay Northern California man—to get behind her, her chances were worryingly slim. And the Harris campaign — rushed and reckless, relying on the same tired playbook that failed Hillary Clinton in 2016 — appears to have lost the great American middle in spectacular fashion.

The biggest problem for Harris is that she wasted every opportunity to make herself seem interesting. Here is a woman born to immigrants, educated at both Howard, among the most prominent of America’s historically black universities, and California’s public higher education system; a big-city prosecutor with a smart millennial, multi-racial family who somehow still managed to come across as corny and out of touch.