Kamala Harris and Tim Walz visit the campaign office in Glendale, Arizona, August 9, 2024. Photo: AFP

The reason is that incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris entered the race and became the Democratic presidential candidate. Ms. Harris and the Democratic Party caused a big surprise when in the past 3 weeks, they turned the situation from almost certain to lose to the Republican Party to being able to win. This is shown first of all in the 4 parameters and criteria most often used as a barometer: the results of public opinion polls, the level of money raised for the election campaign, the number of Americans participating in the candidate's election activities and the level of interest and coverage of the media. In all 4 aspects, Ms. Harris has achieved much better results than Mr. Biden, better than former US President Donald Trump of the Republican Party or at least equal. Even Ms. Harris's choice of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate has proven to be much more beneficial to her presidential campaign than the election effect for Mr. Trump of his choice of Senator JD Vance as his running mate. Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz are currently turning the tables for the Democratic Party because both are completely new to this year's presidential race in the United States. Voters in the United States suddenly have a new choice: from being forced to choose between two people they do not want to vote for (Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump) and are both old, to being able to vote between someone they do not want to vote for (Mr. Trump) and a completely new person (Ms. Harris) and between an old person (Mr. Trump is now 79) and someone nearly 20 years younger (Ms. Harris is 59 this year). The Harris/Walz pair has immediately neutralized many of Mr. Trump's previous fundamental advantages (in the race with Mr. Biden). Mr. Trump always aimed at Mr. Biden's old age, but now he is much older than Ms. Harris. The Trump/Vance campaign strategy and tactics focused almost entirely on personal attacks on their opponents, while the Harris/Walz couple focused on the content of their governing views and policies such as the issue of refugees and immigration, fighting inflation, the issue of women's rights to decide on abortion, social justice, respect for democracy and the rule of law... Ms. Harris received quite extensive support from voters who are women, people of color, and people of Spanish origin. What is strangely noteworthy is that up to now, Mr. Trump and the Republican Party are still struggling to find a suitable countermeasure to deal with the Harris/Walz couple. This group still has time, but must race against time to be able to turn around the situation that has now been turned around.

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