It took Kamala Harris and a team behind the scenes just 36 hours to get enough delegates to become the Democratic Party’s nominee.
Unite an entire party behind her in such a short time. It was an exhibition on political organization.
But the easy part is over. Eating at the head donald trump he is currently holding on in the polls and ultimately defeating him in November will be a much bigger challenge.
She will have to be quick again, just two months after the start of early voting.
The question now is: can she become the first female president of the United States?
With the nomination all but assured, Harris’ presidential campaign will begin in earnest.
Over the next 105 days, he will have to tour America with an energy that many in his party feared. Joe Biden I did not have.
Mrs. HarrisTrump, 59, has relative youth on his side, compared to Trump, 78. But although he is possibly the most famous man in the world, she still needs to raise his profile.
She may have been vice president for three and a half years, but there are people in vast swaths of America who don’t understand who Harris is or what she represents.
Or what they do know about her is through sound bites and memes online, which may not help her reputation.
Harris will have to meet with factory workers in Pennsylvania, suburban mothers in Arizona and angry Arab Americans in Michigan disillusioned with the Biden administration over its support for Israel. He has to win them all over.
The good news is that you have money to pay for flight fuel. Harris automatically inherits a $96m (£74m) war chest from the Biden/Harris campaign.
It also received $81 million (£66 million) in donations the day after Biden dropped out, the most raised in any 24-hour period by any campaign this election cycle.
In her statement acknowledging that she had met the threshold of delegates needed to secure the nomination, Harris wrote: “As a daughter of California, I am proud that my home state’s delegation helped take our campaign to the top.”
Is the United States ready for a female president?
Is America ready for Kamala?
I spent a day this week in Harris’ adopted home of Brentwood, an exclusive Los Angeles neighborhood where she and her husband Doug Emhoff spend much of their time.
At the local coffee shop, some are not convinced that America is ready for a female president, much less a woman of color.
“I don’t know if it is. There are a lot of stupid people in this country, so I hope so, but I keep my fingers crossed,” Laura says.
Her almost namesake, Kamila, who came to the United States from Pakistan 50 years ago, is also unsure.
“I live in Los Angeles,” she says, “and there’s a whole country between the coasts that I don’t know and they’re the majority. I’m not sure if America is ready for a black president.”
‘Dumb as rocks’: attacks begin
Harris, the daughter of an Indian mother and Jamaican father, is sure to face prejudice.
Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee has already called Harris a “DEI” hire: diversity, equity and inclusion.
This might sound scandalous when said in the halls of power. But that view – and worse – will be echoed in murky corners across the country.
Harris is unlikely to be moved by Trump’s insults. Photo: Reuters
Trump has already written on his Truth Social account that Harris is “dumb as a rock” and his campaign is quickly pivoting to attack her in online missives and television ads.
But Harris has run hard-fought campaigns before, to become district attorney, to become California’s first Black attorney general — the state’s highest legal office — and for the Senate. Her insults are unlikely to deter her.
The fact that she has spoken so much about reproductive rights could be key to getting women to the polls.
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Where does Harris stand on key issues?
She has always felt more comfortable talking about abortion than Biden, an elderly Catholic, who has struggled with his feelings on the issue in the past.
Abortion access is likely to be a major rallying cry for his campaign, and that will make Trump nervous.
He knows that abortion is an electoral loser, after Republicans vastly underperformed in the 2022 midterm elections following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, which eliminated the constitutional right to choose.
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It’s clear that Harris intends to go toe-to-toe with Trump.
In a speech at his campaign headquarters, he said that in his career as a prosecutor he had faced “predators who abused women, con artists who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say : I know Donald Trump’s type.”
The former prosecutor versus the convicted criminal and time is running out. The stage is set for a presidential race like no other.
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