Interesting way to present it all. And I think you're right on timelines 1-3. But a bit off on #4. The fact that she raised so much money in the first 24 hrs after Biden withdrew speaks volumes. As a woman, I LOVE the way she talks and comports herself and find nothing any less sincere about her affect than all other politicians, past an…
Interesting way to present it all. And I think you're right on timelines 1-3. But a bit off on #4. The fact that she raised so much money in the first 24 hrs after Biden withdrew speaks volumes. As a woman, I LOVE the way she talks and comports herself and find nothing any less sincere about her affect than all other politicians, past and present. Come on, nobody gets elected being utterly sincere, not even as high school student body president. I think her low polling was due to the fact that we weren't allowed to see much of her since the 2020 election. Have you watched any of her speeches over the past 3 weeks? She's dynamite.
But the most telling thing to me about the timeline, or "here's the thing", as Harris likes to say: that it happened on the schedule that my good friend and local journalist predicted on July 5th—that it would occur immediately after the Republican Convention concluded. The way it was rolled out was utterly brilliant. I just hope I live long enough to find out what was really going on behind the scenes between June 27 and July 21. Does anyone really think Biden woke up on Sunday and changed his mind?
You may well be right. Just watched her Wisconsin rally and she was good. So that's very heartening. I'm remembering, though, a bit of my reaction from the 2020 primary, which clearly was shared by a lot of voters. She just didn't seem to really mean it when she was speaking: you could kind of see the wheels turning, of her hitting her talking points and of the ambition underneath it. I am not saying that other politicians are more sincere than she is! But some of them are really great actors. Harris just didn't seem to have inhabited the role of the committed public servant who genuinely cares about ordinary Americans. She may well have grown into it with time, and clearly really wants to be President, which counts for a lot. Fingers crossed!
And, yes, the one thing we know is that the story about how Biden stepped down is not what really happened. It may take a while to piece it all together, since the basic perception of the president bunkered down and unwilling to listen to reason certainly seems accurate, but there also must have been more happening backstage than has been reported. You're absolutely right that the timing worked out perfectly for the Dems and Harris was certainly ready to jump.
Interesting way to present it all. And I think you're right on timelines 1-3. But a bit off on #4. The fact that she raised so much money in the first 24 hrs after Biden withdrew speaks volumes. As a woman, I LOVE the way she talks and comports herself and find nothing any less sincere about her affect than all other politicians, past and present. Come on, nobody gets elected being utterly sincere, not even as high school student body president. I think her low polling was due to the fact that we weren't allowed to see much of her since the 2020 election. Have you watched any of her speeches over the past 3 weeks? She's dynamite.
But the most telling thing to me about the timeline, or "here's the thing", as Harris likes to say: that it happened on the schedule that my good friend and local journalist predicted on July 5th—that it would occur immediately after the Republican Convention concluded. The way it was rolled out was utterly brilliant. I just hope I live long enough to find out what was really going on behind the scenes between June 27 and July 21. Does anyone really think Biden woke up on Sunday and changed his mind?
But who's gonna be her VP pick?
Hi Leslie,
You may well be right. Just watched her Wisconsin rally and she was good. So that's very heartening. I'm remembering, though, a bit of my reaction from the 2020 primary, which clearly was shared by a lot of voters. She just didn't seem to really mean it when she was speaking: you could kind of see the wheels turning, of her hitting her talking points and of the ambition underneath it. I am not saying that other politicians are more sincere than she is! But some of them are really great actors. Harris just didn't seem to have inhabited the role of the committed public servant who genuinely cares about ordinary Americans. She may well have grown into it with time, and clearly really wants to be President, which counts for a lot. Fingers crossed!
And, yes, the one thing we know is that the story about how Biden stepped down is not what really happened. It may take a while to piece it all together, since the basic perception of the president bunkered down and unwilling to listen to reason certainly seems accurate, but there also must have been more happening backstage than has been reported. You're absolutely right that the timing worked out perfectly for the Dems and Harris was certainly ready to jump.