We have a presidential election with seven states so close that they may go days past the official Nov. 5 balloting before officially being called. At this point, it boils down to a simple card game metaphor. Vice President Kamala Harris was dealt a really bad hand of cards, but she’s playing those cards flawlessly. Former President Trump started out with an excellent hand, but he’s playing it very poorly.

There is no doubt that Harris is saddled by that fact that her last name appears in the "Biden-Harris administration" moniker. It’s difficult to separate from that without creating new, different headaches. With a country that is very unhappy and seeking change, she can’t be seen as the candidate of continuity and still win. To borrow a thought from James Carville, she needs to be the new and “fresh” candidate, not the old stale one, like Trump.

A CNN poll earlier this year indicated that 61 percent of Americans saw the Biden presidency as a failure (39 percent a success), while 55 percent perceive the Trump presidency as a success

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