By David Brooks, columnist, The New York Times
A strong politician in some ways, but also deeply flawed. Now, she's ours.
From the piece, citing our investigation of Kamala Harris and her staff turnover as vice president:
Leadership and management skills: C. Harris’s ability to get pretty much the entire party behind her in just a few days after Joe Biden dropped out is tremendously impressive. On the other hand, from her time as the San Francisco district attorney straight through her time as vice president, Harris has earned a reputation for degrading underlings and burning through staff. Biden has a coterie of people who have been with him for decades, but Harris has no such group. The Substack newsletter OpenTheBooks ran the numbers and calculated that as of March 31 over 90 percent of the staff she had at the beginning of her vice-presidential term had left.
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