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In the first five days after the Kamala Harris 2024 campaign got rolling, the contest for 2024 has shifted, giving the Democrats a new belief that they can stop Donald Trump from being re-elected. Memes supporting Harris in bright green have flooded the internet. Fundraising got off to a great start; Harris’ campaign claims that $126 million was collected from Sunday afternoon to Tuesday night. Harris’ Democratic supporters were also ready to put in their own time to the campaign: According to a statement sent on Wednesday by Jen O’Malley Dillon, chair of the Harris campaign, more than 2,000 people applied for campaign jobs, and more than 100,000 people signed up to volunteer for her candidacy.
The Strategic Implications
As it turns out, the latest polls are indicating that there is no evident leader in the competition that Trump had been controlling. All of this is to say that the Democratic Party’s supporters and the people who give them money are so eager to have a candidate who can talk back to Trump and who can be consistent in the sound that they are desperate for a change of the top of the ticket. Ron Bieber, president of the Michigan AFL-CIO, dubbed the excitement in his state of Michigan, which is one of the crucial battlegrounds for November, “electric.”
“This election cycle, I have never seen energy like this,” he said. It’s much the same message from the Democrats. It is obvious that Malcolm Harris has lately been emphasizing issues such as the preservation of democratic norms and principles, the objection to “trickle-down economics” and the protection of women’s reproductive rights. Although she draws from her own understanding of the issues, she still is in line with President Joe Biden’s campaign commitments. On the other hand, a new spokesperson, who has lately given cheery comments on the campaign trail, is conveying the message better. These statements have revealed the 81-year-old Biden’s weaknesses of performance. The content expresses the ideas and sentiment of voters for the upcoming elections. Furthermore, it reveals politicians’ qualities such as trustworthiness and competence through their performances in debates.
The ex-staffers of the Biden campaign who were working for the Harris campaign on Sunday were occasionally taken aback by the force of Harris’ debut. To assume that Harris’ rise would decisively tilt the outcome of a contest that for a long time seemed a rematch between Biden and Trump would be naive. Harris hasn’t made a choice regarding a running mate or released the first TV spot for her campaign yet. The time is coming that the Democratic National Convention will be held.
Moreover, Harris and Trump might engage in a debate-the type of confrontation that can attract millions of viewers and maybe change the whole election. The vice president announced on Thursday that she would take part in the September 10 debate between Trump and Biden, even though Trump had earlier in the week stated that he has not committed to debate Harris. “I am prepared because I think the voters should witness the split screen that this campaign contains during a discussion. After arriving at Joint Base Andrews from a campaign trip to Houston, she said to reporters, “Let’s go.”
Although the media suggests that Harris is outmaneuvering Biden in various demographic groups such as the youth, non-whites, and females, the overall outcome of the competition seems to be really hard to predict. After escaping an assassination attempt, he presented his party’s platform at the Republican National Convention last week, and the survey by CNN/SSRS, published on Wednesday, revealed that Trump’s and Harris’s preferences in a hypothetical head-to-head match were equal within the margin of error among the eligible voters across the country. His lead was 49% to 46%.
In the latest poll, 50% of the people who favor Harris said they voted more for her than for Trump. In contrast, the Trump-centered strategy of Biden-Trump has changed significantly. A CNN poll done in June found that only 37% of Biden’s supporters said they came out just to support the president. In the most recent survey, nearly 74% of Trump’s followers indicated that they supported him rather than opposing Harris.
Specifically, positive support for Harris among young voters, voters of color as well as women has shown a profound shift; the said demographies normally prefer Democrats but were seen as problematic for the Biden campaign. It was observed that Harris was at 46% and Trump was at 48% among registered voters worldwide according to the New York Times/Siena College survey published recently on Thursday. Besides that, Harris was also identified as more liked than Biden in the case of young and non-White voters.
Kamala Harris campaign launch and political career has just begun, and now there will be a hard 102-day sprint. In her efforts to portray herself as someone who has transformed from the aforementioned blunders, Harris might insert the slip-ups from her 2020 Dem primary campaign as well as the verbal gaffes and staff disruptions that were her companions during the first part of her VP mandate into the equation. Apart from that, she will be subjected to vexatious situations that Biden had dealing with party sections that were divided over the Gaza War and its aftermath. Nevertheless, O’Malley Dillon contended in her report that having Harris at the head of the ticket would give Democrats more ground. Biden’s campaign argued that Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, the states that make up the “blue wall”, were on his path to obtaining the necessary 270 Electoral College votes after he had flown over them.
She got in touch with one hundred Democrats, including the leaders of major legislative caucuses, governors, and past presidents. Even though Harris had the support of Biden, she told people she talked to that she wanted to be nominated. Most of the people who were once believed to be her competitors had supported her by Sunday night. Many others did the same on Monday morning. She had practically completed the challenge of unseating Biden prior to its beginning by the afternoon, having received the backing of ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.Harris worked on Monday afternoon at the campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, which had become a kind of bunker.
Staff members there were demoralized by the dispute that had erupted over the past few weeks regarding Biden’s ability to remain the Democratic nominee following his appalling performance in the debate. Harris signs were being substituted for Biden signs. Harris, which was initially just a piece of paperwork filed with the Federal Election Commission, was a system established for Biden and, for the time being at least, the same team members were involved. The Democrats were ecstatic when Harris delivered a widely televised speech to campaign personnel that was broadcast on cable news networks. She implied the argument that she would use against Trump by citing former president’s issues with law and describing her situation similarly.
Harris called the people “predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, and cheaters who broke the rules for their own game.” “Hear me out: I am familiar with Donald Trump’s personality.” In around three days, no credible rival appeared, and enough state delegations to the Democratic National Convention sprang up and declared their unanimity in backing Harris to secure the party’s candidacy.
