Can Kamala Win ?
The Oasis Reporters
July 29, 2024
As we watch the transformation of Vice President Kamala Harris from a running mate to a sitting President into a presumptive nominee for President of the United States of America,
Nefertiti at first ladyship on X, says that Trump is losing it. “Kamala Harris has the momentum. She’s raking in the monies and the endorsements.
The more Donald Trump keeps attacking her personality and not engage her on the issues, the more she’ll get ahead All she needs is a strong Vice Presidential running mate, especially someone that can win Pennsylvania”
Kamala Harris and the question that is on everyone’s mind is: can she win?
Her battle with Donald Trump has begun, after Joe Biden withdrew from the race and Ms Harris moved quickly to shore up support from fellow Democrats.
With little more than 100 days to go until the election, Ms Harris has just about enough time to make her case to Americans and win the presidency. The argue is that her chances of success rest on one enormous piece of luck and three tests of her political instincts.
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Kamala Harris’ political skills have long been questioned and she’s been a less powerful vice president than her recent predecessors. But few politicians have undergone such a swift reputation transformation as Harris has in the last 48 hours – after she consolidated support in the Democratic Party with lightning speed and unleashed a fundraising torrent.
Harris is partly benefiting from the comparison against what came before – an aged, stumbling President Joe Biden who folded his reelection campaign in her favor. Democrats were desperate for anyone who could avert what was looking like a certain electoral defeat to former President Donald Trump in November.
But now people ask, who is the old one now ?
And suddenly, the pendulum is swinging.
Now Harris faces a monumental task – as a presumptive nominee who is suddenly at the top of the ticket a month before the Democratic convention and just over three months before the election – and who is charged with saving the White House, her party’s control of the Senate and its hopes of winning back the House. And there’s the small matter of beating Trump – the most feral political campaigner in modern times.
Democrats believe that Harris, 59, could repair frayed sectors of the Democratic coalition and boost enthusiasm among young voters, Hispanic voters and Black voters. The biggest liability of Biden’s ticket – the president’s age – has now been removed and Democrats can play the same card back at 78-year-old Trump. But, as the president’s number two, she’s hardly immune from voter anger over high prices, other concerns like immigration policy and fears — fanned by Trump — that the US is heading for World War III.
In racing to anoint Harris as the presumptive presidential nominee, Democrats are going all in on a candidate who has not yet demonstrated she can do better than Biden.
If in the coming days or weeks, Harris stumbles, Democrats will risk being seen as a party that imposed on the country another 2024 candidate who is not up to the job.
Foreign Policy writes that Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday clinched the pledged support of enough delegates to secure the Democratic Party’s nomination for president ahead of the party’s August vote, as endorsements from prominent party officials and leaders continued to pour in following U.S. President Joe Biden’s Sunday announcement that he was suspending his reelection campaign.
According to a survey conducted by The Associated Press, as of late Monday, Harris had received the promised backing of more than the 1,976 delegates needed to win the nomination in the party’s first round of voting, which is expected to take place between Aug. 1 and Aug. 7. Pledged support is not binding, though, and is not official until delegates cast their votes.
“When I announced my campaign for president, I said I intended to go out and earn this nomination,” Harris said in a statement. “Tonight, I am proud to have secured the broad support needed to become our party’s nominee.”
With just over 100 days until Election Day, the Harris campaign also announced that it had received more than $100 million in donations between Sunday afternoon and Monday evening.
Credits:
CNN’s Meanwhile In America
X (Twitter)
Foreign Policy
