Kamala Harris recently announced that she won’t join California’s gubernatorial race, and on today’s edition of The Editors, National Review senior editor Charles C. W. Cooke wasn’t surprised by this — he doesn’t “think she’s got a future.”

“The reason I think that,” said Cooke, “is that she never really had a future.” He added: “In 2019, she was done. I thought she was done forever. I was very pleased about it. I wrote a piece about it saying, ‘Thank goodness Harris is gone.’ She dropped out with, what, 3 percent of the vote in California, her home state? She wasn’t viable.”

Cooke pointed out that Harris, like Biden before her, “was plucked from obscurity.” While Cooke has numerous issues with Barack Obama, “he was always obviously extremely talented as a politician.” Cooke noted that “nobody looked at him and said, ‘Really? They’re picking him to run for president?’ Of course they were. Same with Bill Clinton. Same with Ronald Reagan. These are people who obviously have a future in politics.”

“Harris didn’t,” Cooke said. “She’s not good at it. She’s not good at the job. She’s not smart. She’s not a good politician. She’s not a good retail politician. She’s not a good debater. She’s bad at running for president.”

“I think that she perhaps thinks that she can run again. But she also knows somewhere that she’s done.”

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