Harris Is the Change Candidate

Dan Pfeiffer: “Even though Kamala Harris is the sitting Vice President, voters view her very differently from Biden. In a New York Times/Siena poll of North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia, 46% of voters think she will bring about major changes or tear down the system, and only 11% think she will make no change. This is an important improvement over Biden.”

Julia Azari: “The replacement of Biden with Harris didn’t just offer a younger nominee, or a more historic one, it also offered an opportunity to run as the change candidate. Tonight’s speech showed careful messaging on exactly that theme. In particular, by embracing a message about the future, she is trying to explicitly orient the campaign around prospective ideas about what each administration would do in office.”