Less than three months before the presidential elections on November 5 and a few days before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the United States is experiencing a political earthquake.
The emergence of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz on the political scene had the effect of transforming the electoral dynamics and trends in the final stretch of the 2024 political process.
A recent poll by The New York Times and Sienna College shows that the Democratic pair now has an advantage in the crucial states of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, unlike the deficit that the Democrats experienced with Joe Biden.
Harris and Walz remain competitive in Georgia, as well as in Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina. Nationally, Democrats are now slightly ahead of Republicans, although the difference remains within the margin of error of the polls.
If the Democratic couple ends up winning Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, they would only need one electoral vote in Nebraska to get the 270 electoral votes needed to defeat Trump.
Political scientists agree that Harris and Walz could lose states like Arizona and Nevada, where the Hispanic vote will have a strong weight, and still win the electoral college as long as they win Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Political organizers agree that the Democratic couple has revived enthusiasm among some of the historical pillars of the Democratic Party, including young people, Hispanics, African Americans and women.
So it was not so surprising that under this pessimistic outlook for the Trump and JD Vance couple, the former president has finally agreed to propose three presidential debates against Kamala Harris.
The vice president’s campaign immediately responded that it would accept only one of the three proposed debates, meaning that Trump and Biden will debate on September 10, on ABC, without an audience present at the forum, as agreed, before the president abandons his presidential aspirations.
What Kamala Harris and Tim Walz still owe us is an open conference with reporters, a fact that has not only not gone unnoticed by Republicans, but they are using it as a line of attack to suggest that Democrats do not want to answer questions about their political record, especially on issues such as the economy and the situation at the border with Mexico.
Although the vice president accepted five questions from reporters regarding the debate, she promised that she will very soon have her first open press conference, before the end of this month. But that meeting with the press will surely take place after the Democratic Convention from August 19 to 22 in Chicago, where she will make history as the first woman of color to achieve the presidential nomination in one of the two major parties and where the Democrats hope for a new political push.
