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Kamala Harris has age, gender, profession, and race on her side. Past punctures and weakness in impromptu performances are in her way.
Kamala Harris has emerged as the main contender for the Democratic presidential nomination after Joe Biden's withdrawal from the election. Although the party will officially select a candidate at its convention on August 19, influential party members are already rallying around the vice president, and supporters have raised a record $81 million for her election needs in a day. Now it has become known that Harris was considering Joe Biden's possible refusal to run and was preparing for it. Babel journalist Anton Semyzhenko has read dozens of publications by leading US media and talks about Harris's likely tactics, why Trump's campaign considers her one of the worst options for themselves, and what coconut palms have to do with it.
Kamala Harris found out that Biden was dropping out of the race on Sunday morning: the president was one of the first to call her and offer to replace him. This decision did not come as a surprise to her. When she joined Biden's team in 2019, she realized that the president was already of an advanced age and that she should be prepared to fulfill his duties.
During the current election campaign, Kamala's headquarters in Observatory One, the name of the U.S. vice president's residence, is the 1893 building in Washington, D.C. It was once a naval observatory. Previously, vice presidents lived in a private house of their own choosing, but over time, rent prices in Washington grew so high that the administration asked for a separate building to be adapted to meet their needs. The observatory is located three kilometers from the White House.
After Biden's disastrous debate with Trump on June 27, Kamala stopped talking to journalists and canceled press conferences. And while she used to talk informally with media representatives off the record while traveling around the country, in July she avoided journalists altogether, so as not to give away too much emotion even with her facial expressions.
Harris had her anti-Trump talking points ready to use at rallies in support of Joe Biden. Her rhetoric did not change after she became the candidate. One of Harris' main emphases will be on the fact that she used to be a lawmaker
