Harris charms voters on the stump and stands out in Senate hearings, but her cautious performance in televised events has some supporters worried she could undermine her no-nonsense brand.
Sen. Kamala Harris speaks to patrons at Mars Coffee in Des Moines on April 11. By Chelsea Janes Chelsea Janes Reporter covering the 2020 presidential campaign Email Bio Follow May 2 at 1:25 PM HANOVER, N.H. — Somewhere in the middle of a few dozen people, a barely visible Sen. Kamala D. Harris had to yell over the noise of a jackhammer, then a Dartmouth student demanding a selfie.
“I understand the deliberateness, but you can’t be cautious,” Sellers said. “Saying ‘We’re going to have a conversation about this’ — sometimes people want to be fed. They don’t want a conversation. Just tell us what you think.” But some supporters worry that in this field — which includes former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders , who need no introduction; Sen. Elizabeth Warren , who’s building herself into a policy pacesetter; and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, emerging as a fresh-faced outsider — Harris needs to establish surer footing.
The noncommittal answers prompted follow-up questions in subsequent days, prolonging the moment as Harris repeated that she believes incarcerated felons should lose their rights but avoided coming down on the voting issue. Neither felon rights nor the voting age is likely to determine the Democratic nomination or the general election. But the event illustrated the ease with which the campaign’s efforts to craft distinguishing moments can succumb to the higher-decibel conversations of the day if Harris does not deliver crisp answers.
Harris speaks at a house party on April 11 in Des Moines. Many aspects of Harris’s campaign are disciplined, including a rarely altered stump speech and her team’s tightly controlled approach to the race more broadly. Aides say Harris’s experience as a prosecutor leaves her sensitive to the responsibilities of power, and that if she doesn’t have a researched answer, she doesn’t want to give one.
In all four early primary states — Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina — Harris has packed rooms with interested voters. When she shakes hands, voters say they feel a connection. One recent viral video showed her giving public speaking advice to a group of teenage girls, one of whom was so star-struck she looked panicked when she realized she’d been clutching Harris’s hands for 30 seconds.
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