Her shift from indifferent vice president to source of Obama-scale enthusiasm has caught many unaware. Yet Democratic talk of victory is dangerously premature.
If there was one moment in Kamala Harris’s glitzy convention that illustrated how much has changed in US politics – and at what speed – it was a social media post from faraway Mar-a-Lago. “WHERE’S HUNTER [Biden]?” asked the Republican nominee as Harris prepared to take the stage.
That Donald Trump would pick the finale of Harris’ coming out party to lament the absence of Joe Biden’s son was not on most people’s bingo card. Just five weeks ago, Trump was acting as though he had already won the election.
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Edward Luce is the Washington columnist and commentator for the Financial Times. He writes about American politics and the economy.
