Allegedly on Saturday there was a phone meeting with major Dem party donors. Apparently Kamala was front and center, and the results were NOT good. There's allegedly as much angst with Kamala as there was with Biden, and supposedly many don't think that she can offer any way of beating Trump.
Right now I think the Dems, realistically, are writing off the office of the President and are hoping to hold onto Congress.
I agree with you here. The problem the Dem's face is, Historically, without a candidate that galvanizes voters to go to the polls at the top of the ticket, down ballot races suffer pretty badly.
I don't know how many of the Dem base that is on the edge of voting or not is going to go "Ugh, Kamala. But still I better go vote to make sure Smuckatelly McPolitician (D) gets a house seat"