The likeliest reason neither she nor her advisers have devised better answers is that there are no politically palatable ones. ...

Any sitting vice president who runs for president faces some of these challenges. You have to be your own person and distance yourself from unpopular aspects of the incumbent. At the same time, you have to keep your party unified and avoid accusations of disloyalty and opportunism. That may be why only one vice president, George H.W. Bush, has run for president successfully since 1837. Unfortunately for Harris, Joe Biden is no Ronald Reagan.