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Kamala Harris

The Lede

With Time Running Out, Kamala Harris Makes a Push for the Latino Vote

In battleground states, Latino voters could tip the balance of the election. Is the Vice-President doing enough to cultivate them?
Comment

The Presidential Campaign, After Philadelphia

Part of the intrigue has been which movement would run out of steam first: Trump’s MAGA, through its failures, or Obama’s liberalism, through its successes.
The Political Scene Podcast

Will Kamala Harris’s Debate Win Be Enough to Move the Needle?

Vinson Cunningham and Clare Malone break down the first, and perhaps only, Trump-Harris debate.
The Lede

Donald Trump Had a Really, Really Bad Debate

Kamala Harris, veteran prosecutor, proved beyond a reasonable doubt on Tuesday night that her opponent will always take the bait.
The Lede

How Kamala Harris Can Beat Donald Trump on the Debate Stage

In the Vice-President’s previous debate triumphs, she did not conquer her opponents so much as she permitted them to lose.
The Financial Page

Donald Trump’s New “Voodoo Economics”

The former President’s tax plan would cost the government trillions of dollars. Tariffs and Elon Musk will pay for everything, he says.
The Lede

Kamala Harris Makes Her Case Beyond Big Cities

At campaign stops in southeastern Georgia and New Hampshire, the Democratic candidate tried to win voters in counties outside her party’s strongholds.
The Political Scene Podcast

Will Harris Get Trump to Self-Destruct at the Debate?

“The stakes are genuinely huge,” Evan Osnos says. “As we’ve learned this year, debates can be actually decisive.”
Q. & A.

How Kamala Harris’s Coalition Changes the Race for Congress

The elections analyst Dave Wasserman assesses Black support for Donald Trump and explains a state-level primary that’s a national bellwether.
Letter from Biden’s Washington

Can Red-Baiting Save Trump’s Flailing Campaign?

On “Comrade Kamala” and the ex-President’s last-century approach to winning in 2024.
The Political Scene Podcast

What Does “Election Interference” Even Mean Anymore?

How the once narrow term has come to be weaponized as “informational terrorism.”
The Lede

Kamala Harris’s Political Calculus Takes Shape in First Major Interview

The Vice-President and her advisers clearly believe that being accused of flip-flopping is a lesser threat to her campaign than being cast as too radical.
The Lede

Kamala Harris’s Gamble

Four years ago, the Democrats made big promises to address racial and economic injustice. Will voters remember?
The Political Scene Podcast

How Much Is “Being Cool” Actually Worth in Politics?

The New Yorker staff writer Naomi Fry dissects how Vice-President Harris became a “Kamalanomenon.”
The Financial Page

Kamala Harris and the New Democratic Economic Paradigm

At their Convention in Chicago last week, the Democrats looked like a party that is unusually united in its goals.
Comment

Can Kamala Harris Keep Up the Excitement Through Election Day?

At the Democratic National Convention, the sense of relief was as overwhelming as the general euphoria—but the campaign against Donald Trump has only just begun.
The Political Scene Podcast

Kamala Harris’s “Different Kind of Hope Campaign”

“The enthusiasm is real, but I don’t think it’s so much around an agenda of Harris’s as much as it is around an agenda of stopping Trump,” Susan B. Glasser says.
The Lede

Kamala Harris’s “Freedom” Campaign

Democrats’ years-long efforts to reclaim the word are cresting in this year’s Presidential race.
Fault Lines

What Kamala Harris May Have to Do Next

The D.N.C. was remarkably well orchestrated, but unscripted tests remain.
Letter from Biden’s Washington

The Speech of Kamala Harris’s Lifetime

The Democratic Presidential nominee leaves Chicago with her party united, but Donald Trump is not yet defeated.