From 2019 and it’s seem history is repeating for her.
After a blockbuster debate performance in June, Sen. Kamala Harris shot up in the national polls, peaking at 15 percent voter support. Cut to five months later, and she’s announced her decision to drop out, after polling in the single digits.
Her departure — which comes before several candidates who are polling behind her — prompts a major question: What happened?
According to pollsters and political experts Vox spoke to, part of Harris’s polling decline was due to the fact that it’s difficult to sustain a spike after a viral moment — and Harris didn’t do enough to fully capitalize on it. Harris’s subsequent debate performances, for example, were not seen as consistent enough to maintain that surge.
