“I launched my campaign for the President of the United States a mere two weeks ago,” Vice President Kamala Harris noted at the start of her campaign rally speech in Philadelphia Tuesday night. “It’s been a bit of a whirlwind.”
Take a minute to think where we were just a few weeks ago. Joe Biden had been trounced by Donald Trump in their debate in late June, seeming unfocused, hesitant, and sometimes unable to complete sentences. A little more than a week later, the New York Times/Siena poll showed Trump with a six-point lead over Biden. A poll by the Wall Street Journal at the same time produced the same result. Biden had fared poorly in polls by both newspapers earlier in the campaign cycle. This time, the Journal poll found that 80 percent of its respondents thought Biden was too old for a second term as president.
