A lot has happened in the past two months. Donald Trump survived a bullet to the head by a would-be assassin; Joe Biden failed to survive a presidential debate. Kamala Harris has been the Democrats’ replacement candidate for such a short period of time that media are still talking about a Harris “honeymoon” — and she just got around to releasing a policy platform this week.
And yet, the first ballots are already in the mail and on their way to voters. Alabama, the first state to drop ballots in the mail, started shipping them out on Wednesday to absentee ballot applicants as well as military and overseas voters.
There are 55 days between Wednesday, the official start of election season, and Nov. 5, the date that still bears the moniker of Election Day. When ballots went out in Alabama Wednesday morning, only 52 days had passed since Biden got booted out of the race.
The length of time from the launch of Harris’ campaign to the first ballots being mailed was one-tenth the number of days Biden spent on vacation during his presidency.
A baby conceived on the day Harris launched her campaign could be legally aborted today in 32 states and the District of Columbia.
When the astronauts currently stranded in space left for the International Space Station, not only was Biden still Democrats’ nominee, but his career-ending debate against Trump hadn’t even happened yet.
When ballots went out Wednesday, the first Trump-Harris presidential debate, and likely
