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Kamala Harris

In less than 100 hours the fight for the 2024 election has entirely changed.  Sunday's bombshell now looks like the only reasonable outcome as Biden's numbers were in freefall.   As I mentioned a week ago, people were no longer listening to him, but just watching for a fall in mental acuity.   

Sunday night Harris was obviously the favourite, for several reasons, first, she is already the #2 on the ticket, but also she has direct access to nearly $300 million in war chest reserves since the money was for a Biden/Harris presidential ticket.   On Monday Harris moved from "one of several" possible choices to the only game in town.  All the other potential challengers supported Vice President Harris' bid to replace Joe Biden.

Monday night it was announced that Ms Harris had raised nearly 100 million dollars, in less than 24 hours as the presumptive Democratic party nominee.   Tuesday she did her first stump speech and she killed it.  Vice President Harris had an annoying tick (she made a constant clicking sound with her mouth when speaking), well that's gone.   She sounded prepared, ready and to the Trump/Vance campaign very young.  Vice President Harris is two decades younger than Donald Trump.  Trump's game plan was to show him as the Alpha male to Joe Biden's frail posture.  That doesn't work with Vice President Harris.   

Trump's even bigger problem is that he is undoubtedly racist surrounded by racist white men, and they will attack Vice President Harris for being a black woman (it already started on Wednesday -- it was plain for all to see on Fox News, no dog whistle straight out anti-woman and anti-black).   Finally, Donald Trump has tried to block the transfer of cash from Biden/Harris to Harris/???, with the FEC in a lawsuit.  

The reality that Kamala Harris is walking into the Democratic convention as the presumptive nominee will make the convention boring, but it will make the election interesting.   The Trump campaign is trying to pivot, but their entire battle plan was built on Joe Biden, an old man.   

Interesting

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