Harris’s weakness has been the cause of speculation about what other Democrats might run for the party’s nomination should Biden step aside. All one has to do is look at the big 2020 field — there were more than 20 candidates — to find a lot of people who will be interested in running. Pete Buttigieg. Amy Klobuchar. Cory Booker. Elizabeth Warren. Or one could look at a line of Democratic governors, such as Phil Murphy, Roy Cooper, and Gavin Newsom. Or others.

The first thing to remember: Under normal circumstances, such speculation would be crazy, just as speculation about Clinton is crazy. But these are not normal circumstances, and the talk is the natural result of the Democratic Party’s dilemma: An old president who is unlikely to serve two terms.

One last note about Clinton. She is apparently still seething with anger about the email scandal that dogged her during her 2016 presidential run. The latest indication is this. There is a growing brouhaha about reports Trump destroyed some documents in the White House — he had a many-years-long habit of tearing pieces of paper into tiny bits — and even flushed some down the toilet. Now, there have been reports that some of the documents might have been classified. And that has gotten Clinton, who unilaterally destroyed thousands of the emails she kept on a private system as secretary of state, quite agitated.