It’s been 19 days since Joe Biden announced he wouldn’t run for a second term.
Less than three weeks!
And yet, we are looking at a totally reset race — one in which Kamala Harris now has a slight national polling lead and Donald Trump is clinging to a much-narrowed electoral college edge.
The Democratic National Convention opens in 11 days. The general election is 89 days away.
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Many in the media are calling for VP Harris to have interviews and talk to the press. It’s understandable that they want to be able to press her in real time about the campaign promises she’s been making and where she stands on specific policies. My question is: Why aren’t we hearing the same pressure for trump to do legitimate interviews? Ones where he will be asked hard questions and fact checked in real time, instead of his stream of conscious chats with fox spewing the same old lies and hate and today's dumpster fire of lies that was the MAL campaign speech disguised as a media address?. Seems like the legitimate media outlets are giving him a pass on the same thing they’re pressing her on…
Hi Chris, we kept hearing about how good Trump's campaign managers are and how disciplined the campaign was. But ever since Biden has dropped out of the race, it really doesn't feel that way.
Were they only perceived as being good and disciplined because they were running against an 81-year-old man no one wanted to be president anymore?