Kamala's amazing rise: It wasn't flipping the script -- it was releasing pent-up emotion

[marmar]

Kamala's amazing rise: It wasn't flipping the script — it was releasing pent-up emotion
Something special happened last week: The speed and efficiency of Harris' takeover testifies to how ready she was

By Lucian K. Truscott IV
Columnist
Published July 30, 2024 9:01AM (EDT)


(Salon) It’s hard to believe that it’s been only a week. I’ve been looking for the word to describe the feeling of the change that happened since Joe Biden suspended his campaign in favor of Kamala Harris. I found it today: amazement. You can’t look at the transformation of the Democratic Party and the presidential campaign in any other way than amazement.

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That’s fast. So is what happened afterwards: Harris made 100 calls to party leaders on Sunday; the campaign had to flip 30 social media accounts from saying “Biden” to “Harris.” The Post names all the campaign and White House officials who sprang into action. Harris’ communications director was adamant that the veep appear on television on Monday, so preparations had to be made for that. The Post reported that “for years,” the site KamalaHarris.com had simply redirected to Biden’s website. That had to be changed, but it could only be done by someone with power over that domain, so there was a scramble at the Democratic National Committee to find that person and get the change done.

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There was something special at work in the transfer that took place from Biden to Harris as the party’s nominee. Harris had spent four years in Biden’s shadow, as every vice president must, especially while the president in question is in his first term with a re-election campaign on the horizon. In fact, Harris came under withering criticism for appearing to play such a quiet second fiddle to Biden. She was called “low energy,” her speaking style was criticized and in Republican corners ridiculed.

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What she was, was ready, and that truth came across in the speed and efficiency with which, in the words of the Washington Post, she “took control of the Democratic Party.” Sure, the party was ready for someone to take control after the Dark Days of Biden’s apparent decline after the Trump debate. That Harris was as prepared as she has shown herself to be surprised a lot of people, and positively delighted Democrats who were ready for a change. ..............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/30/kamalas-amazing-rise-it-wasnt-flipping-the-script--it-was-releasing-pent-up-emotion/

[lapfog_1]

1. yes there was a pivot on a hair pin

but with someone as competent as Kamala at the lead... it really has gone well, very well indeed.

[Bolo Boffin]

2. We saved ourselves

After weeks of Democratic leaders and the mainstream media using a bad debate performance to force us to consent to "Biden too old," the base and the rank and file Democrats were done.

Biden helped by endorsing Harris 20 minutes after dropping from the race. Any other contenders had no chance to even get their boots on.

And then we small donors put millions of dollars into Kamala Harris's pockets. There were plenty of leaders who endorsed Harris right off the bat. But the ones getting ready for that "blitz primary" atrocity could not deny the money rolling in. THAT was the way we voted for Harris to replace Biden at the top of the ticket. "Enough," we said. "You made 'Biden too old' happen? Fine. This is now OVER."

And here we are. We saved ourselves. Harris more than met the challenge to step up.

And now it's time to turn the page on Donald Trump.

[ificandream]

3. Excellent full article, one everyone should read.

Thanks for posting the link to this.