Kamala eclipses Trump – Asia Report

In just three moons or 72 hours, the stars tipped the scales in favor of Kamala Harris. In that span, the vice president of USA She won a majority of more than 3,800 Democratic delegates to be the presidential candidate, raised a fortune for her campaign and, as a finishing touch, broke the parity between Joe Biden and Donald Trump by two points in a poll of Reuters/Ipsos. The machine started working after Biden decided to throw in the towel. “We have launched a line of new Kamala Harris products!” read an email from the Democratic National Committee.

It offered at reasonable prices and in record time, 107 days before the presidential elections on November 5, everything from T-shirts, hats, mugs and other items to cell phone screen protectors free of charge with the inscription Harris for President. If Trump had his heyday with the lucky misfortune that involved the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania and his coronation as a candidate during the Republican National ConventionHarris savored glory after tooth and nail defending Biden’s management, approved by just 36% in a poll of Gallup. His index was lowered while his people were demanding that he step aside.

“Among the presidents after the Second World Waronly Jimmy Carter had a lower approval rating (35.8%) than Biden, although George W. Bush’s average of 39.2% was also relatively low,” he notes. He adds: “Biden’s rating exceeds the minimums of other presidents.” Among the Democrats, Lyndon Johnson resigned shortly before the 1968 elections, a turbulent year if there ever was one, due to his unpopularity over the Vietnam War. His vice president, Hubert Humphreylost to Republican Richard Nixon. Harris’s job rating, in the eyes of Gallupis not far from Biden’s, beyond the impact that his candidacy caused.

It was easier to debate with an 81-year-old man, three years younger than him, than with a woman 19 years younger with an Indian mother and a Jamaican father.

What does this mean? The news may have had an influence, but it does not alter the technical tie between Democrats and Republicans in a polarized country. Harris narrowly breaks the tie, two points, 44% to 42%, according to Reuters/Ipsos. Nothing in general terms in a system guided by an electoral system that gives preponderance to the electoral colleges of the States. That has obtained the approval of the majority of the delegates in the Democratic National Convention scheduled for August or having raised 81 million dollars in the first 24 hours of his nomination does not give him the green light to park in the White House.

Harris, 59, landed in the Senate in 2017 before launching her first presidential bid. In that capacity and in her current role, after having been attorney general of Californianever ceased to be a secondary protagonist, perhaps relegated by the same Democrats who now see in her a kind of lifeline. The Clintons, Bill and Hillary, and others recognized this as soon as Biden announced his retirement after meeting with his close friends, especially with his wife, Jill, while he was recovering from the coronavirus, isolated on the eastern coasts of Delaware. A difficult decision after half a century of career.

His withdrawal is bad news for Trump, who is focused on Biden’s forgetfulness and confusion. It was easier to debate with an 81-year-old man, three years younger than him, than with a woman 19 years younger with an Indian mother and Jamaican father. “Joe Biden was trying to hold back the tide of history, pushing heavy furniture against the door of time, and now the flood has burst the windows,” notes David Von Drehle in The Washington Post. Harris set out to emulate Bill Clinton, governor of Arkansas32 years after winning the presidential election; 32 years before John F. Kennedy announced in 1960 that he was giving way to a new generation. Coincidences, nothing more.

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