Perry is a hell of a nice guy from North Carolina who I met in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He’s in his 30s and is a consultant who has walked the Appalachian Trail. He thinks V.P. Kamala Harris is losing.
"I wish she would just be clearer about who she is," he told me. And he likes her, he even likes her better than he liked President Joe Biden, but he’s not an idiot and he sees the wheels are falling off of her campaign.
I appreciated Perry talking to me because, honestly, it's been harder and harder to get Democrats to talk of late. Like sad Mets fans, they are licking their wounds, and not in a particularly chatty mood.
Two months ago, this was not the case. High off of the dispatching of Joe Biden and the anointing of Kamala Harris as the nominee, Democrats were on a sugar high and eager to chat.