With 100 days until Election Day, the bid for the White House has the energy of a new race: Donald Trump’s campaign to defeat Joe Biden has been turned upside down by Kamala Harris becoming the presumptive candidate of the Democrat for President. Less than a week into his campaign, Harris quickly shut down his party’s support after Biden announced he would not seek re-election.
Polls already indicate that Harris can make up for Biden’s gaps, particularly among black and Hispanic voters, Adam Harris said last night. Washington Week with the Atlantic. Harris has also particularly re-energized young voters, a demographic that Biden has previously struggled to connect with. “There was a flood of enthusiasm,” Harris continued.
Many see Harris as a candidate who can attract voters who have potentially turned away from Biden since 2020. For Democrats, these voters “need to remember why they didn’t like Trump in the first place,” Peter Baker said in the show . Harris is “apparently able to pursue this in a better way than (Biden) could.”
Joining editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Jeffery Goldberg to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent The New York Times; Eugene Daniels, a White House correspondent Political; Adam Harris, a contributing writer for The Atlantic; and Asma Khalid, White House correspondent for NPR and political contributor to ABC News.
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