Kamala Harris and the Countdown to Election Day
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With 100 days to go until Election Day, the bid for the White House has the energy of a new race: Donald Trump’s campaign to defeat Joe Biden has been turned upside down since Kamala Harris became the Democrat’s presumptive nominee for president. Less than a week into her campaign, Harris has quickly locked up her party’s support after Biden’s announcement that he would not be seeking reelection.
Polls are already indicating that Harris may be making up for Biden’s gaps, especially among Black and Hispanic voters, Adam Harris said last night on Washington Week With The Atlantic. Harris has also particularly reenergized young voters, a demographic that Biden previously struggled to connect with. “There’s been a groundswell of enthusiasm,” Harris continued.
Many see Harris as a candidate who can pull in voters who have potentially drifted away from Biden since 2020. For Democrats, these voters “need to be reminded why they didn’t like Trump in the first place,” Peter Baker said on the show. Harris is “able to seemingly prosecute that in a better way than [Biden] could.”
Joining editor in chief of The Atlantic Jeffery Goldberg to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for The New York Times; Eugene Daniels, a White House correspondent for Politico; Adam Harris, a contributing writer for The Atlantic; and Asma Khalid, a White House correspondent for NPR and a political contributor at ABC News.
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