There isn’t a single thing normal about the past week of this campaign, and yet the news media are acting like this is, at most, an interesting time, but otherwise politics as usual.
To recap: A sitting president, up for reelection, announced in a terse letter that he was abandoning his campaign just a little over 100 days from Election Day. He was supposedly sick for the second time in the course of a month and nobody saw him for days after the announcement. To replace him as the presumptive Democrat nominee, he endorsed his vice president, a woman whose entire term in that office has been marked by wild turnover, unresolved problems, blame shifting for those problems, and an irrefutable lack of charm.
Kamala Harris is literally the reason Joe Biden couldn’t not run for a second term. If he hadn’t, everyone knew she would have, and it was going to be the worst campaign ever, or at least tied with her first campaign for president in 2020. Unfortunately for Biden and his party, the already decrepit president’s health deteriorated at a much quicker pace than anticipated, and now Harris will be the nominee anyway.
But that doesn’t change history and what everyone has known for almost four years — that Harris has been a complete failure as vice president, she isn’t equipped for the job as president, and she didn’t miraculously become popular. To the contrary, she’s the least liked vice president in the history of polling the question.
