Mark Steyn:
As far as I can tell, no one who knows her likes Kamala Harris. Other than Willie Brown, that is. But the fellows who decided Joe Biden had outlived his uselessness did not wish to open up a free-for-all race for the succession. They were not willing to entertain a pseudo-primary ding-***** between Newsom, Buttigeig, whoever - and the only person available to be simply announced as de facto nominee was Kamala.
So the swift surgical liquidation of Biden and the installation of Harris was accomplished. And the plan then became to keep the un-nominated nominee under wraps so that her unlikeability does not become known until, say, mid-November.
This seems to be working. If one is willing to believe polls, the two latest have Kamala up four (Emerson) or, alternatively, Trump up four (Rasmussen). Which means, either way, the vice president wins, as the instant switcheroo has put the race back within the Democrats' margin of steal.
Oops, did I refer to Ms Harris as the "vice president"? Pardon me, my mistake. The strategy is to present her as the change candidate, the outsider, the insurgent - notwithstanding that she is, in fact, the incumbent. To the seven remaining Biden loyalists, this is beginning to take its toll:
https://jewishworldreview.com/0824/steyn081924.php