Everything that has flipped since Harris took over the ticket
By
Jack Birle
August 21, 2024 9:34 am
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Vice President Kamala Harris has seen consistent momentum since she entered the presidential race after President Joe Biden dropped out last month, with the race for the White House being turned on its head.
Former President Donald Trump had built a substantial advantage over Biden after a June debate fueled concerns about Biden’s age and mental acuity, resulting in the president tanking in the polls. In the month since Biden’s decision to drop out, many facets of the campaign have changed in favor of the Democrats.
State of the race
Before Harris entered the race, Trump was riding high. Biden’s nightmarish debate performance, combined with a generally well-received Republican National Convention and an assassination attempt on Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, made a second Trump term appear imminent. Democrats were having widely reported feuds about whether Biden should continue as the nominee, and downballot Democrats were suffering the effects of Biden’s unpopularity.
A month after Biden decided to drop out of the race, Harris has moved through the honeymoon phase of her candidacy and hasn’t faced serious opposition. Trump’s numbers continue to fall, and the race has tightened significantly, with Harris overtaking Trump in the Real Clear Politics polling average by 1.5 points.
Harris has continued Biden’s policy of shying away from interviews with the press, something that could come back to bite her if she makes a misstep in a big moment, but the strategy hasn’t caused her problems. She has revealed few hard policy plans beyond banning “price gouging” and echoing Trump’s calls not to tax tips.
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