"While campaigning in battleground Michigan over the weekend, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Biden’s VP pick, expressed concerns about a potential 2016 repeat.
She indicated that Democrats are having post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from Trump’s presidential victory.
“You know, we all have PTSD from 2016, yes,” Harris declared Sunday, echoing Paul Begala, a longtime advisor to Bill and Hillary Clinton and a founder of the Democratic fundraising giant Priorities USA.
“Everybody is anxious,” Begala told the LA Times. “It is not just post-traumatic stress disorder. We have permanent traumatic stress disorder. We will never get over what happened in 2016.”
“At this point, everything worries me,” Karen Finney, a senior Clinton advisor in 2016, added.
Democrat operatives are reportedly “obsessing” over ways in which the former vice president could still blow it and see his lead in the polls disappear in the final days of the election.
“A slight shift in voters’ mood in those places could mean the difference between a Biden blowout and Trump eking out another narrow victory even if he loses the popular vote — as he did to [Hillary] Clinton four years ago,” the Times noted, referring to swing states."