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The highest she ever polled in the 2020 primaries was 15%, very briefly, reaching a low of 3% before she dropped out of that race.
She was always a bizarre choice to thrust into that position all of a sudden. Biden should have bowed out much earlier, and Dems should have selected the replacement with a primary.
They set themselves up to fail, to the tune of millions of blue voters who didn't vote red, they just weren't motivated enough to vote at all.
IMO, she was a bad choice of VP in 2020 during the Black Lives Matter protests over George Floyd's murder. The optics of picking someone who was dubbed "California's top cop" felt like a slap in the face. Whether that moniker was deserved or not, perception often matters more than facts when dealing with what is effectively a popularity contest.
So is no one here in comments calling her a bad candidate? Are you just citing external favorability? The label of "least worst option" came from a commenter, not a nameless poll statistic. I'd question whether that's really an external reference, and not a personal attack on her character.
To me it wasn't even close because there was nothing outwardly negative about Kamala. So, I'm looking to identify specific thoughts that lead to that unfavorability.
And, be warned, in the lack of anything else, the thoughts "She's a woman" and "She's black" come up as the reason for it; indicating that the derived stance of the person above is "The democratic party should never run with minorities."