It was a moment that encapsulated one of the biggest challenges facing her campaign – which, in the end, proved insurmountable.
CNN spoke with over a dozen senior Harris campaign aides both in the Wilmington, Delaware, campaign headquarters and on the ground in the states, as well as multiple volunteers and local elected officials, over the course of the final weeks of the race.
Vice President Kamala Harris makes her way to board Air Force Two before departing Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, Wisconsin on September 20.
Biden could have taken on a role as steward and elder statesman, rather than a guy the Harris campaign never knew quite what do with.
And those tensions manifested from almost the start of this short campaign, in the internal wrangling over who Harris should pick as her running mate.
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