Many Democratic pollsters and strategists have questioned why Harris didn’t give some example of how she’d be different, such as by saying she would have acted faster than Biden did to reduce migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Pretty much everyone agrees that the cost of living was the election’s big driving factor. And that Joe Biden’s dithering kept the Democrats from having much-needed primaries to test all the possible candidates — and give them some experience in a national campaign. Still, it’s hard to believe the anti-woman angle wasn’t important.