California, of course, is not the totality of America. Especially in the early primary states, successful Democratic candidates must show they are as comfortable in and with the heartland, as accessible to small-town Iowans as to San Franciscans. The media does not get why Biden holds onto his voters or why a “no malarkey” tour may work in Iowa; they too often bring the coastal elite mind-set to a race that in the early going is decided by people who do not naturally embrace urban progressives. Harris never quite made the leap from San Francisco to Des Moines.

The two challenges that doomed Kamala Harris – The Washington Post

Reason Number 1) No. It wasn’t electability. People were dying to hear from her. She just never showed up.

Reason Number Two)  Ahem. The Peanut Gallery may have mentioned this a few hundred times or so in the past year…