Kamala
Whoever said a week is a long time in politics is old-fashioned. With modern communications technology, a day could be a long time in politics – as Donald Trump and his cohorts are finding out.
One day after Joe Biden made that fateful decision to withdraw from the presidential race, the newly-constituted Kamala Harris campaign drew over a $100 million in contributions from small donors. Over a million of those small donors were giving money to a political campaign for the first time.
A week before Biden withdrew and endorsed Harris, a CBS poll showed Harris beating Trump among women voters (52 percent to 47 percent), among black voters (76 percent to 21 percent) and among voters aged 18 to 29 (62 percent to 37 percent).
A Reuters/IPSOS poll taken the day after Biden’s fateful announcement gives Harris a 44 percent share against Trump’s 42 percent. Momentum is building on her side. Thousands of volunteers are signing up for her campaign.
Less than two days after Biden withdrew, Kamala Harris won the endorsement of more than enough delegates to next month’s convention. She was endorsed by all the Democratic governors and nearly all the elected Democrats in both houses of Congress.
A sea change has happened just a hundred days before the elections.
Neither Biden nor Trump truly excited the voters. Both are old men with tired ideas to match their failing cognitive functions. Many voters were resigned to abstaining next November. Biden’s sudden withdrawal and Harris’ early consolidation of support changed all that. The dreaded internal chaos due to party infighting did not happen.
The electoral atmosphere is now positively charged. The base of the Democratic Party is energized – and united. Undecided voters have now found a candidate they would want to support. The Republicans who reject Trump now have a comfortable option.
The swiftness of Democratic Party consolidation tells us that Harris has been quietly moving while everyone fretted over Biden’s failing health. The moment Biden announced, Harris’ organization sprung into action.
Harris labors under several vulnerabilities. She is a woman in a country that has never yet elected a female president. That she is a
