Kamala D. Harris did her party a huge favor on Tuesday: She dropped out of the presidential race. The loss of one of the more talented candidates in the field may not seem like a plus. But by exiting the race, Harris shrunk an unprecedented and unwieldy field of contenders […] Read more »
California: Sanders and Warren Now Share Primary Lead, Preferences Unusually Fluid
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, at 24%, and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, at 22%, are now the frontrunners in California’s March Democratic presidential primary. The latest Berkeley IGS Poll finds former Vice President Joe Biden dropping to third place, with 14% support, followed by South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg at […] Read more »
Choose Your Own Early State Adventure
This week, we play out a few scenarios of how the Democratic primary might unfold in the early states. Then we discuss what the departures of Harris and Bullock could mean for the 2020 race and the party. Finally, we break down a poll that looks at how President Trump […] Read more »
Why Kamala Harris’s failure echoes Marco Rubio’s
A year ago, almost nobody would have guessed that Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) would drop out of the Democratic presidential race before the Iowa caucus. Like Marco Rubio and Scott Walker in 2016, Harris had the potential to be a consensus candidate: someone who could satisfy the demands of […] Read more »
Why Harris Dropped Out
After an initially promising bid, California Sen. Kamala Harris dropped out of the Democratic presidential primary race Tuesday. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew assesses why she stumbled in the polls and dropped out relatively early. FiveThirtyEight Read more »
Why Kamala Harris’s Campaign Failed
… Kamala Harris dropped out of the presidential race on Tuesday, and she’s probably the most significant candidate to do so to date. … Harris dropping out now surprised me. I expected she would stay in the race at least through Iowa and perhaps even New Hampshire, and drop out […] Read more »