Epiphany has come and gone, but Talleyrand has only just realised that no predictions were offered this year. Apologies, dear readers.
So here is an easy one, by way of the Los Angeles Times. Its long profile of Kamala Harris’ life in California – we’re told the trendy word to describe it is ‘cringeworthy’ – includes the following:
The Vice President’s Residence at the Naval Observatory, where she and Emhoff reside in Washington, provides some respite from the well-trodden White House complex where she keeps an office, but friends and aides say she considers it the people’s house — not home. In keeping with tradition of her predecessors, she redecorated the Victorian mansion — adding her own Californian touches — but the residence is on “borrowed time,” said Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.), a close friend and former advisor to Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign.
You couldn’t be more obvious than that. Presuming that she isn’t rooting for the enemy, the question becomes, who stands at the head of the understudies’ queue to save Joe Biden’s skin? Talleyrand has already named one candidate.