A Race at Warp Speed For Harris There Are Advantages in a Late Start

Presidential campaigns like most other things in life have a rhythm. The candidates are usually identified by the time late spring is around the corner. They are selected during the conventions held during the summer season. The months of preparation come down to the next eight weeks of the fall campaign that starts on Labor Day At this time the public gets to concentrate on the candidates they have chosen for months. 
 
Not this time. 
 
The elevation of Kamala Harris to replace President Biden as the campaigns’ head of ticket has turned what had been a slow and dreary contest between Mr. Biden and former President Donald Trump into a 100-day end-to-end race to the polling stations. This campaign is now in fast forward with a choice of vice-presidential nominee, a convention, the debate over debates and the manufacture of spots and the development of tactics all in a few weeks as opposed to months. 
 
Pennsylvanians will start voting as early as mid-September since it is one of the swing states. 
 
Some analysts closer to both parties said that is likely to favour Ms. Harris given that time-table. Her campaign is attempting to surge forward and keep moving in the hope of bypassing some of the issues and detailed policy analysis sessions that the candidates go through on the way to the nomination — all of which will leave Mr. Trump struggling to respond and figure out that he is dealing with an entirely different style of an opponent. 
 
“A shorter campaign is a huge boost for Harris,” said Matthew Dowd who was George Bush’s campaign strategist during the 2004 campaign. He pointed out that Republicans have been preoccupying themselves with anthracite “vilifying” Mr. Biden and before him, Hillary Clinton so that “by the time Labor Day comes, the nominee is properly nailed down. ” 
 
“Not so with Harris,” he said. 
 
This as a result of a shortened campaign timeframe has compelled the Trump campaign to jettison what it planned in a matter of months and realign towards a much different opponent an enthusiastic 59-year-old black and South Asian woman who’s campaign has evidently energized what was her partys dormant base Population. 
 
For months, Mr. Trump ridiculed Mr. Biden, calling him senile, and suddenly during the last week argument with Black journalists over Ms. Harris ancestry. He did it again in Atlanta on Saturday night when he was rallying a crowd: ‘This is the vice-president-elect of the United States’, pointing at her ‘She’s a radical left freak,’ then mocking her intelligence and first name shouting ‘Kamala, Kamala. ’ 
 
“Kamala,” Mr. Trump said, “You know there is about 19 different ways of pronouncing it She only likes three. ” 
 
The warp-speed campaign appears to be made for this generation of the short span of concentration, bolstered by posts on the Truth Social and X over the last three weeks when Mr. Trump was shot at a rally and Mr. Biden took himself off the race but these seem to have faded away as focus turns to who has just joined the charm. 
 
Short campaigns are not a novelty for many parts of the globe, as mentioned before. The labour’s Keir Starmer won the election of the British prime minister last month, and the campaign was, by law at least, only six weeks long. While in practically all the western democracy the first signs of a campaign can be observed almost immediately after the election of representatives, U. S. presidential contests are a model of bloat; the first signs of a campaign can be seen only several weeks after the president is inaugurated in New Hampshire or Iowa. Mr. Trump never stopped running after he was defeated in the 2020 elections; After the elections Mr. Biden goes for endorsement in April 2023. 
 
Mr. Trump is looking for how to present his new rival, among other reasons, because Ms. Harris’s qualification bypassed the primary. Consequently, she has not faced the months of assaults from the fellow Democrats that may have unveiled her weaknesses. And Ms. Harris has not agreed to any of the large media outlets interviews since her party considered her a nominee. 
 
“She’s not had to stand through a long primary season with people asking why she is running for president, or worrying whether or not a woman can be elected,” said Jennifer Palmieri who was the director of communications for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and has just joined the Harris campaign as senior advisor of the campaign’s spokesman Doug Emhoff. “She has been packaged and offered to the people as the solution to a given issue. ” 
 
Still, the fastest-paced campaign presents threats to the inexperienced and recently emerged Democratic presidential candidate. This implied that by forgoing a contentious primary, she or he never got an opportunity to exercise, or even rehearse, campaign skills. When Ms. Harris attempted to become the Democratic president in 2020 with a lot of strong competition among the contestants that include Mr. Biden, she pulled out early before the first vote on the primaries. 
 
And more immediately, the short calendar does not give her much time to rewrite the script and to market herself to a public that surveys reveal is not at all in a position to embrace Mr. Biden, Ms. Harris, and the state of the nation Mogul they preside over. It also offers her rather limited space to extend when the political game wears her out, as it is capable of doing even to the most experienced of campaigners. 
 
“They should not forget that prior to the much-publicized debate that included slurs, the America wanted to replace the Biden Harris team due to age and equally due to economy,” noted Mike Murphy, a Republican consultant this has been said in reference to the poor performance of Mr. Biden who many believe was outshined by Mr. Trump on the debate floor. “There is, therefore, ample room for the dan ger in the world for Harris. ”

If things go wrong, August can likely be the dominion of Ms. Harris. She is approaching her decision of choosing a running mate which guarantees a series of major campaigning moments that will attract the attention of both the print and electronic media and the public. The Democratic convention opens on August 19 in Chicago; an occasion that the party leaders had anticipated might result in a show of splits and pessimism, is now an opportunity, in any case, for a party of four days’ elation. 
 
Ms. Harris saw a significant shift in the public’s assessment of her in polls taken after Mr. Biden dropped out: A New York Times/Siena college poll also observed the level of her approval increase from 36 percent in February to 46 percent in July. In this poll conducted less than two weeks after Mr. Trump got out of an assassination attempt, 48% of the respondents admitted to having a favorable view of the former president, a figure above that recorded in any other Times Siena college poll. 
 
“Given that Harris isn’t all that popular, her favorable has rose significantly,” said Bob Shrum, a Democratic consultant, on her favorability rating among voters. “She’s a new one today, and she will be a new one come Nov. 5 as well, thus the shor tness of it is that it effect will not fade. ” 
 
“On the other hand, if there’s a mistake the mistake becomes magnified and such a situation may lead to huge losses. ” “That’s the problem, less time to get around it. ” 
 
As mentioned 55 percent of Americans believe that under Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris, the USA is going in the wrong direction. Now, the Trump campaign has both the cash and the candidate in Mr. Trump who can link her to Mr. Biden’s interpretations on such major issues as immigration and the economy; Mr. Trump happens to enjoy an advantage over Mr. Biden on both these core issues. (Case in point: Mr. Trump was quick to point fingers at Ms. Harris and Mr. Biden following the stock market downturn on Monday This share is less than the polling initial numbers that show Ms. Harris much better than Mr. Biden against the incumbent Mr. Trump, but with a mere draw against the former president. 
 
Nevertheless, according to Mr. Murphy, who is an opponent of Mr. Trump, “net-net she helps the Democrats compared to the mess they were in with Biden. ” 
 
“It puts Trump on the back foot, so to speak, had to come up with a new strategy other than the stroll through against Biden,” he said. “She now has the gift of running a campaign about the future, painting Trump as the old man of America That’s a very strong position to be in for any candidate. ”