Democrats Clear the Runway for Kamala Harris
With Joe Biden’s endorsement, the vice president is in a dominant position. Plus, her obvious challengers are mostly young and can afford to wait for another chance.
The next president of the United States?
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Barring an unexpected turn of events in a season of unexpected turns of events, Vice President Kamala Harris will be the next Democratic nominee for president. “I think it’s almost inevitable that Kamala Harris will end up being the nominee,” Robert Shrum, Director of the Center for the Political Future at the University of Southern California and a veteran of a half century of Democratic campaigns, told me.
President Joe Biden’s departure from the race on Sunday was one man’s extraordinary decision. But it was a sum of the efforts of thousands. The Democratic Party was not uniformly in favor of jettisoning Biden. But its center of gravity had shifted against him.