Harris Has a Big Campaign Launch — and Big Tests Ahead

If you are Vice President Kamala Harris, different Democrat oregon immoderate different idiosyncratic who happens to privation Harris to go president, the past 2 weeks and 5 days person astir apt felt similar a dream.

There is simply a tougher world for Harris, though, belied by the euphoric haze.

The contention betwixt Harris and erstwhile President Donald Trump remains remarkably close, and she is tied with him successful must-win states similar Wisconsin and Michigan, according to The New York Times’s polling averages. Trump’s allies are sharpening their attacks. And successful a candidacy measured successful days not months, she has yet to look the scrutiny of an interview oregon merchandise a elaborate imaginativeness for her imaginable presidency.

Every statesmanlike run is simply a bid of tests. Can you excite voters? Can you rise money? For Harris, the reply to some of those questions truthful acold is yes. Her enactment coalesced astir her instantly. She has smashed fund-raising records and held overflowing rallies, and she seems to beryllium tugging cardinal plaything states her way.

But arsenic Harris wraps up a battleground run circuit with her brand-new moving mate this play and turns her attraction toward the Democratic National Convention this month, caller challenges are successful the offing. And the abbreviated run leaves a campaigner who is inactive introducing herself to voters with small clip for do-overs.

“She volition beryllium tested,” Neil Newhouse, a Republican pollster, said. “She’ll beryllium tested by the Trump campaign. She’ll beryllium tested by the press, and conscionable by mundane events.”

That whitethorn beryllium wherefore Harris has been cautious to dependable a enactment of caution to supporters who mightiness similar to luxuriate in the optimism.