ANALYSIS — In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory last month, Democrats are still searching for answers to key questions, including whether Kamala Harris was a strong or weak nominee. With help from an Inside Elections metric, there’s a way to quantify how well the vice president performed in each state.
The answer isn’t a complete surprise: Harris underperformed across the country, according to the Vote Above Replacement, or VAR, standard. And the dynamic wasn’t limited to critical battleground states but spread over Democratic and Republican territory alike.
Harris finished ahead of a typical Democratic candidate in just 13 states, ran even in Connecticut and underperformed the average Democrat in 36 states.
