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The Economist
The Economist
25 Jul 2024


NextImg:Which Kamala Harris is now at the top of the Democratic ticket?
United States | The switch in time

Which Kamala Harris is now at the top of the Democratic ticket?

The race to define the new presumptive nominee

|WASHINGTON, DC

IT IS BAD form to be dour, doubting or dissenting at a coronation. And Democrats are a well-behaved lot. On July 21st President Joe Biden abandoned his bid for re-election, less than a month before he was to be formally nominated at the party’s convention in Chicago. One day later, his anointed successor, Vice-President Kamala Harris, had secured the spot before any simulacrum of a contest could even begin. Mr Biden transferred his whole campaign infrastructure immediately; his campaign renamed itself “Harris for President” within hours. Her mooted opponents went prostrate: every sitting Democratic governor had endorsed her within a day.

The clues in Kamala Harris’s championing of reproductive rights

Abortion has been the issue on which the presumptive Democratic nominee has been most visible and effective

How to decode Kamala Harris’s foreign policy

Expect tougher words on Israel, and continuity on Russia and China


Kamala Harris carries the torch, and the burden, of Bidenomics

She aims to build on the president’s social-care agenda while escaping blame for inflation


The clues in Kamala Harris’s championing of reproductive rights

Abortion has been the issue on which the presumptive Democratic nominee has been most visible and effective

How to decode Kamala Harris’s foreign policy

Expect tougher words on Israel, and continuity on Russia and China


Kamala Harris carries the torch, and the burden, of Bidenomics

She aims to build on the president’s social-care agenda while escaping blame for inflation


Republicans adjust their attacks for their new foe, Kamala Harris

Ms Harris inherits some of Joe Biden’s vulnerabilities—and brings a few of her own

Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Here’s what the polls say

How the Democrats’ likely candidate changes the race

Kamala Harris lacks charisma and time

But, if nominated, that does not rule out her defeating Donald Trump