No. of Recommendations: 10
Yeah. I remember Albaby and others saying how impossible it would be to coalesce the Dems around a new candidate and put together a functioning election team and coordinate a Convention and pick a new VP candidate and do fundraising and start putting policies together and agree to debates and travel around campaigning and have any chance of changing the Democrats’ poll numbers.Yep. It's actually rather amazing. Harris didn't just hit the high end of expectations - she utterly exceeded expectations in managing the transition from Biden to her candidacy. Not a single wrong foot, not a single mistake. She managed to thread the needle perfectly
and massage all the behind-the-scenes gladhandling and coalition building in a way that minimized any ruptures in what is normally a
very fractious coalition. Seriously - she came out of that process with nearly every single faction in the party on-board, all of the other competitors for the nod (esp. Newsome) keeping their powder dry. She even managed to finesse the Gaza conflict with probably the absolute minimum amount of drama and impact to her campaign.
I mean, just
look at public perception of her:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorabilit.......even with most people not realizing the degree of difficulty of what she just pulled off.
Again, the race is an absolute toss-up. There's every chance that Harris will lose. But for the Democratic party to be in a spot where there's even odds? An absolutely astounding job by Harris, under the spotlight, and with all the pressure in the world on her.
