"Biden could have picked a Black woman without loudly proclaiming to the world that it was a pre-req."
Agreed, that was dumb. Sadly, politics has always been a contest between dumb and dumber.
"Harris never really had a shot at the presidency, IMHO"
Biden seemed to think so too.
"between her sex, childlessness, color, and inflation/illegal immigrants"
She could have overcome all of those things and connected with more voters, but she failed.
Insert "it was aliens" meme here.