In 36 hours Harris amassed $192 million in donations, 100,000 new volunteers and blew up the internet with endearing memes of the vice president.
Chuck Schumer could barely contain his excitement.“President Biden’s selfless decision has given the Democratic Party the opportunity to unite behind a new nominee, and boy oh boy, are we enthusiastic!” the Senate Majority Leader told reporters at the US Capitol, as he began clapping emphatically.
This week, however, Trump has been crowded out of the headlines and has had to readjust his campaign strategy, which until now centred solely on an octogenarian and his cognitive decline. Lawyer and Biden mega-donor John Morgan, for instance, said he would not be supporting the Harris campaign, noting on X: “You have to be enthusiastic or hoping for a political appointment to be asking friends for money. I am neither.Others also recall her ill-fated bid to run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, which similarly began with plenty of hype, only to result in the former California attorney-general dropping out before the first primary contest even took place.
“I’m pretty scared as a black man, who has a lot of black women around me who I love, because you know it’s coming,” says Salley, the former chair of the Anderson County Democratic Party in South Carolina.
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