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Is Kamala Harris More than Cosmetic?
Winning the 2024 presidential election is difficult. Harris must dig deep and accept help to become a stronger candidate
Kamala Harris has successfully established herself as the presumptive Democratic nominee. She replaced Biden after his debate implosion on June 27, 2024, and exiting from the presidential race twenty-four days later.
Relief from Biden’s departure, popular urgency to move forward, and quick work by Harris’s team essentially locked up the nomination in her favor. Notions of an open process were quickly squashed and forgotten; Democrats were excited, united, and invigorated around Harris.
Harris is far from a perfect presidential candidate. She is more happenstance than chosen by voters. Her run for the 2020 Democratic nomination, which began with much applause, collapsed in disarray before the Iowa caucus. Joe Biden was retrieved from a boat to meet St Peter to stop a self-proclaimed socialist, Bernie Sanders, from snatching the nomination. Biden won and picked Kamala Harris as his running mate. Harris proved a poor manager of her campaign and was continually unprepared — traits she carried into the White House. As Vice President, Harris gave few substantive interviews, and many…
