The Campaign
Before the 2024 Presidential primaries began, while the media was calling Donald Trump the frontrunner of the race that had not started, several of us sat around a dining room table and discussed who we would like to see run on the Democrat ticket. We all agreed that Joe Biden was too old. Gavin Newsom's name came up, someone pointed out that he was not well-liked in his home state of California. People mentioned Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar, and a few heads bobbed in agreement. Then Kamala Harris' name came up, and everyone at the table shook their heads and the discussion centered around her tendency to talk without making much sense. Word salads was the term. The conversation then moved to Pete Buttigieg and others who made the unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 campaign.
When it became clear that Biden saw himself as the Democrat candidate for 2024, the Democrats rallied around him, and he faced no serious challenge, except for a lack of enthusiasm for his reelection. Now he has dropped out of the race, and Democrats are rallying around the one person everyone at the table believed would be the worst contender. With no other challenger to Trump except fringe candidates, we are, with trepidation, lining up with the rest, and Harris is our candidate.
In a way Nikki Haley helped to make this happen. She provided the only challenge within the Republican Party to Trump, and like Harris, she is a woman of South Asian ancestry. Their politics are not alike, but they are women who challenged the misogynist, albeit Haley's was tepid. Still if one voted for Haley to attempt to fend off Trump, voting for Harris is a no-brainer. At least the change in the Democrat candidate has breathed new life into an election that was dying from dreadfulness.
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