The presidential primary is pretty clearly a four-way race at this point. As per the Real Clear Politics poll average, Joe Biden is still out in front with 27 percent, with Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris tied for second with 14 percent, and Elizabeth Warren only a point behind them. The other 2,000 candidates are all down in the low single digits or lower.
Not long ago Harris was only doing half as well. Clearly she was the major beneficiary of the recent debates, especially her forceful confrontation with Biden over school desegregation. But afterwards, she backtracked on the issue, saying that in cases where school segregation is not the result of discriminatory laws, "any tool that is in the toolbox should be considered by a school district."
That is directly at odds with her debate statement that the "federal government must step in" when schools refuse to desegregate. It's not the first time Harris has given reason to believe her answers to thorny questions are less than sincere.
The Harris campaign seems to be trying to thread this needle by arguing that mandatory integration was necessary back in the bad old days.
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