The Vice President must demonstrate her credibility as a politician voters can feel at ease with
Democratic National Convention in Chicago began when her role was simply to whip up support for a faltering veteran President. On 21 July, that dating status with the US electorate changed when Joe Biden was forced to quit his party’s candidacy after a confused debate performance against Donald Trump.
This week, Harris will become the first woman of black and South Asian descent to lead a party ticket – and the first candidate to do so after a sitting President quit the race since Lyndon Johnson decided not to seek a second term in 1968. amid the heat of protests over the Vietnam War. That is not a promising memory – Hubert H Humphrey, hastily inserted on the Democratic ticket, lost to Richard Nixon in that year’s presidential race.
No doubt, she has played a difficult transition very well, exerting enough discipline to ensure she has not bloodied her hand by being seen to push out aShe has restarted the spluttering Democratic campaign – the “We’re not going back” chant takes on an Animal Farm level of repetition at her appearances – while polls in swing states are giving her the edge on many issues and she has limelight on her side.
Loth to end up as the “Border Tsar” responsible for a wavering approach to illegal immigration, Harris was accused of dodging responsibility for a poorly regulated influx of asylum seekers from Mexico and beyond. It’s an Achilles heel,
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