She’s riding a wave of positive publicity in the polls, a media sweetheart and an historic female candidate set to be catapulted to the lead as her adoring supporters crown her at the Democratic party convention.

Kamala Harris? No, it’s Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Clinton was seemingly unbeatable as she came out of her party’s convention united with white-wearing supporters promising to defeat Donald Trump.

“We will not build a wall,” a deluded Clinton said in her acceptance speech. “And we’ll build a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already contributing to our economy. “

After the Democratic convention, Clinton got a 7-point bounce – just like Harris will get. Her lead over Trump ranged from 3 to 9 points. The media slobbered over her.

In the debates, polls showed Clinton to be the winner.

Even in late October, Clinton’s lead in the polls surged to 12 points, according to an ABC News tracking poll.

It was a slam dunk.

Well, we all know how that turned out. Trump clobbered her.

All the polls were wrong in 2016. Democrats never saw the train coming down the tracks.

Who could forget seeing the pain permanently etched in the faces of CNN’s verklempt Democratic panel as the electoral map turned red?

Now it’s Harris who looks strong after her united party dumped 81-year-old Joe Biden for her much younger and hipper understudy.

Trump suddenly looks very beatable as he’s largely watched Harris climb back into the race with a surge of nearly all positive fluff.

Now the question is, when will she peak, and how does Trump get off his heels and regain his footing and engineer a repeat of 2016?

JD Vance looms as a possible mistake as Democrats wisely latch on to his comments about childless cat ladies.

And forget about Harris’s VP selection – it won’t matter.

Does anyone even remember who Hillary Clinton’s running mate was eight years ago? (The answer is the eminently forgettable Tim Kaine).

Trump needs to push the reset button on Vance, and get him away from the podium and big rallies and send him to steel mills and auto plants. He should be spending every day telling his personal story, not just attacking Harris. He needs to be engaging with real, undecided voters, not the MAGA crowd.

Trump has kept a relatively low profile since his near assassination, holding only a few rallies and making a few comments on social media about Harris.

That needs to change.

Trump needs to saddle Harris with Biden. Immediately. She was basically a functionary who stood by while the border was wide open and inflation soared, and perpetuated the lie that an incompetent Biden was perfectly fine.

She was not in the loop, and stood by while the failures of the Biden administration kept mounting.

If Trump can somehow stick with this plan, get back to the message and survive the debates, and not just take cheap shots, he might still win. Just ask President Hillary Clinton.