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July 22, 2024 12:38 PM UTC

Kamala Harris for President is Changing EVERYTHING

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  • by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE: The Harris campaign announces that it set a new record for the largest 24-hour fundraising haul in history: $81 million in the first 24 hours of her candidacy. From a press release:

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How about them vibes?

President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he would no longer seek re-election and gave his full endorsement to Vice President Kamala Harris to run as his successor.

By Sunday evening, Governor Jared Polis and every Democrat in Colorado’s congressional delegation had endorsed Harris for President, with big-name Democrats across the country doing the same (including, on Monday, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi).

Meanwhile, newly-energized supporters were opening their digital wallets, as The New York Times explains:

Vice President Kamala Harris raised more than $50 million in less than 24 hours after entering the 2024 race for president, her campaign said, as Democrats welcomed her candidacy with one of the greatest gushers of cash of all time.

Ms. Harris’ take was part of an even larger haul collected through ActBlue, the online donation-processing portal used by Democrats up and down the ballot.

As of Monday morning, ActBlue had processed more than $80 million online in the hours since President Biden announced he was stepping aside, according to a New York Times analysis of the platform’s online ticker of contributions. [Pols emphasis]

The surge of online donations peaked at $11.5 million in a single hour on Sunday evening.

The Harris campaign accounted for the lion’s share of the funds raised online. Her campaign announced that she had raised $49.6 million as of 5 a.m. Eastern time.

That is a RIDICULOUS amount of money — almost all of it from small dollar donations — and it keeps growing. Chris Korge, finance chair for the Biden Victory Fund, told NBC News on Sunday, “The floodgates will open” with Biden’s decision to leave the race. Donations may well exceed $100 million later today.

As we explained on Sunday in a special episode of The Get More Smarter Podcast, the entire vibe of the 2024 election changed almost instantly:

Harris is not yet the formal Democratic nominee for President, of course, but at the rate things are going she should have that title all but wrapped up well before the Democratic National Convention a month from now. Democrats who had been despondent about the shape of the race for President with Biden at the top of the ticket are suddenly feeling a new sense of hope and optimism. Democrats will own the news coverage for the next several weeks, parking Trump in “page two” status, where he will undoubtedly rage and rant until someone pays more attention to him.

 

Republicans Struggle to Respond

Last week’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee ended on a dour note, with Donald Trump accepting the GOP nomination for President in a rambling, incoherent speech that was longer than any other acceptance speech in history. Three days later, Biden was out; Harris was in; and Republicans were baffled.

As Dana Milbank explains for The Washington Post:

On Sunday morning, House Speaker Mike Johnson declared that President Biden absolutely, positively had to run for another four years as president.

“It’s not possible to simply just switch out a candidate who has been chosen through the democratic, small-d democratic process,” he told ABC News’s “This Week.”

On Sunday afternoon, Johnson proclaimed that Biden absolutely, positively could not remain in office for even one more minute.

“He must resign the office immediately,” the Louisiana Republican said in a statement.

Confused? The Republicans certainly are.

They wanted desperately to campaign against Biden this fall, and their party’s nominee, Donald Trump, had built his entire campaign around beating an opponent he could portray as old and feebleminded. But Biden upended everything Sunday with these words: “I believe it is in the best interest of my party and my country for me to stand down.” [Pols emphasis]

Just like that, Trump became the old man in the race for President, and it is his words that will now be closely-watched for signs of an aging mind. It is now Trump who would be the oldest person in history to begin a term in the White House if he were to win in November.

Democrats can counter with a much better “first”: The first woman to be elected President of the United States.

And Republicans don’t know what to do next. Again, from Milbank:

The Republican response was confused and weak. They accused Democrats of a coup and a conspiracy to hide Biden’s “dementia.” They called for invoking the 25th Amendment and teed up legal challenges. But mostly they responded, in what was clearly a coordinated if illogical plan, by insisting that Biden resign immediately. “If Joe Biden can’t run for re-election,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) wrote in a typical formulation, “he is not capable of serving as president for the next six months and needs to resign NOW!” [Pols emphasis]

Colorado Congressperson Lauren Boebert was making the same pitch about Biden. As a political strategy, this makes absolutely ZERO sense. If Biden resigned, KAMALA HARRIS would become President six months earlier. How, exactly, would this help Republicans?

 

What Harris Means for Colorado

Rep. Yadira Caraveo (D-Adams County)

While some polls showed that Trump was moving closer to Biden in Colorado, there was no real chance that our state was going to be in play at the top of the ticket. Trump lost Colorado by 5 points in 2016 and by 14 points in 2020.

That doesn’t mean Harris won’t change the election cycle in Colorado. Her candidacy will bring a new excitement for Democrats in Colorado who were already motivated to oppose Trump. That top ticket enthusiasm will trickle down to candidates such as Democratic Rep. Yadira Caraveo, whose re-election bid against Republican Gabe-ish Evans in CO-08 is the top race to watch in Colorado.

Harris will also change the issues discussion in a manner that helps Caraveo and hurts Evans. A different focus on the issue of abortion rights, for example, is a huge benefit to Caraveo and a big problem for a staunch abortion rights opponent such as Evans.

For more than a year, polling has shown that Americans were absolutely NOT excited about the prospect of a rematch between Biden and Trump. Biden did what needed to be done — what Trump would never have done — and it has completely reset the narrative of the 2024 election.

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16 thoughts on “Kamala Harris for President is Changing EVERYTHING”

  1. We so desperately needed some good news and it came Sunday, and now today with the record fundraising. HALLELUJAH !!! Anybody else here feel really, really good today ?

    1. I share your sense of delight. I feel a major turn in this conflict. Donald Trump will NOT win the election. In fact…he will be crushed.

      1. Keep drinking to blue Kool Aid, Duke.

        This is a turning point in the right direction but the idea that Trump is going to lose in some kind of landslide is delusional. 

        Harris polls better than Biden did …. by about a point or two.

        Harris will keep NH, VA, MN and NM from going red. It remains to be seen if she can win in states like PA, MI and WI.

        The unity and enthusiasm in the Democratic Party is a good sign.

        The cash coming in is also a good sign.

        But we will hear a lot about her work as the Border Czarina along with those video clips from Eagle Pass, TX.

        We will hear James Donald Bowman (a/k/a JD Vance) talk about how she is unfit to be president because she has not had any biological children. (Don't get me started on this one. Like breeding takes some kind of special talent. You need a license to go fishing but anyone can procreate.)

        This is not going to be some kind of a cake walk.

        1. Reports of 5000 black women on a national organizing call last night that expected fewer than 1000 suggest the Kool Aide is safe to drink. The future is female, and it's about freakin' time.

        2. Did I mention cake? No…but I am also not a pearl clutching, know-it-all, concern troll. 

          I believe Kamala Harris will unite the Democratic party,, millions of Unaffiliated voters, and, a significant number of remaining, disaffected Republicans and November will see the young people of this country defend THEIR future and reject the MAGA movement. 

          I didn’t drink anything…and although I realize I will never be the astute political observer that you are, I am convinced the ascendence of VP Harris IS the “turn o’ the worm”, as my dad used to say.

          Please continue to doubt and “nay-say” all you want (I know you will), but your resmblance to one of Spiros’ “nettering nabobs of negativism” is undeniable.

          I am not “delusional”. I have reasons to be confident in my prediction. I’m not given to flights of fancy, and your admonishments and dismissal are irrelevant and insulting. 

          We only have to wait 3 months to find out. In the interim, say what you will. It doesn’t matter what you think.

          Stay sweet…

          and VOTE BLUE, NO MATTER WHO!

           

    3. Man, I haven't felt this good since right after the election was called for Joe in 2020. It feels like a gigantic weight has just vaporized into fairy dust. I feel so much enthusiasm and hope now. I almost forgot what those things felt like; even my youngest is happy about Kamala. Gen Z is gonna win it for us.

  2. Kamala Harris could simply throw the election to herself when she opens the electoral votes in January. H/T Talking Points Memo.

    I’m going to bring this up with all my MAGA friends… if I had any!

    Damn, that would be a funny SNL skit!

    Trump claimed that on Jan. 6, 2021, Pence had the ability to discard Electoral College votes that he deemed illegitimate, thereby throwing the election to him. It’s a reminder of how insane (and short-sighted) that argument was that Trump now faces the current vice president as his opponent.

  3. And not a penny of that $81 million need be spent on criminal defense lolyer fees!

    In other news, demands for proof of Bobo's sentience went unanswerwd.

  4. The New York Times has a good article that puts a fine point on the trouble Trump will have debating Kamala.

    How Kamala Harris Will Try to Put Trump on Defense

    But in interviews, Democrats were eager to make the race about character and experience, noting Ms. Harris’s law enforcement background and Mr. Trump’s litany of legal problems.

    “She is a former prosecutor and he is a convicted felon,” said Marcia L. Fudge, a former housing secretary in the Biden administration who said she had spoken with Ms. Harris on Sunday. “If there ever was a huge choice, this is it.”

    “What is particularly important, especially in this case, is her history as a prosecutor — someone who has stood for law and order,” said Representative Veronica Escobar, a Texas Democrat who served as a co-chair of Mr. Biden’s campaign. Mr. Trump, she added, is “a convicted criminal, who not just violates the law, but believes very firmly that the law does not apply to him and his supporters.”

  5. There are "Swifties For Harris" pages up on at least Tik-Tok and Twitter. There are like a billion Swifties, not all eligible US voters of course, but Swift Support oughta help rack up some numbers!

    1. Watching “Under His Eye” Johnson try to mansplain’ things yesterday, JD yapping about “childless cat ladies who lead miserable lives and have no stake in America”, Fat Donnie’s silence and BoBo demanding  proof-of-life (she’s not well) made for a good day.  This remodel project was indeed swift and effective.  
       

      it feels like 2008. 

  6. "old and feebleminded……" Good description of Trump. I suspect we all know people in their 80s who are still "sharp as a tack," so to speak. That narrative doesn't fit Trump, who is still 2 years from 80.

    Dementia is a sad thing to happen to anybody. Trump's team had their planned focus on Biden's "dementia" Now they have to defend Trump's. Maybe some poetic justice here?

  7. Saw tonight that the Harris campaign also had 28,000 sign up to volunteer … about 100 times the "usual" daily increase in volunteers.

    The Act Blue totals are impressive — but do not reflect the full scope of fund-raising.  A phone conference call sponsored by Win With Black Women blew up,

    attendees who tried to join the call in the first hour couldn’t due to capacity restrictions, with some creating other spaces to listen in from, utilizing Google Meets, Twitch and listen-only phone calls. Win With Black Women organizers connected with Aparna Bawa, the COO of Zoom for support, and soon the floodgates opened as women and allies from across the country joined to strategize about how to support Harris’ run for president….

    “I was one of the 44,000,” read the text of a social media graphic of Harris speaking that Win With Black Women created. The post started to spread like wildfire Monday morning, as attendees reflected on what the meeting meant to them.

    The social reach of 44,000 Black women activists will be one reason for a huge change in the contest's momentum.

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