Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“The Harris-Walz campaign has led a charmed life. The base is enraptured by being saved from having to vote for and defend a second Joe Biden term—not to mention, probably being saved from a Trump second term. In the battle of running mates, you have one of the starkest polling differences in recent history, an energizing high school football coach versus someone who repels half the population. The Trump campaign has been flailing for six weeks, and a ticket wanting to distance itself from the epithet of being ‘weird’ has now allied itself with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Recent real-world events are also falling into place for the Democratic nominee. Harris’s first set of economic pronouncements focused on the cost of food and housing. It turns out that evidence of precisely the harms she has identified has come out of courtrooms and corporate press releases over the last couple of weeks.” (08/29/24)
https://prospect.org/economy/2024-08-29-three-events-harris-economic-agenda/