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How ‘brat summer’ prepared Kamala Harris for her extraordinary bid on American Battleground:

This is the third installment in a five-part series covering the last months of the 2024 presidential campaign, beginning with the June debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Read both the first and second installments. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president.

 

Joe Biden has stepped down. More than five decades after winning a county council seat in Wilmington, he is less than two hours away from his Delaware beach home when he abandons his bid for the presidency. His decision is made over the weekend with his family and closest advisers, and even sources close to him have told CNN’s MJ Lee just hours before that he will not resign. They were not fooling her, she will decide; they simply did not know. “The inner circle that was always really small got even smaller,” she adds of the endgame.

 

The tipping point appears to have been a talk with House Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi, in which she predicted a Biden loss would produce an avalanche of defeats for other Democrats fighting for control of Congress. As Lee puts it, “She said to him, per our reporting, the polling shows you’re going to lose and you’re going to bring the House down with you.” Months later, Pelosi will tell The Guardian that she and Biden have not spoken since and that some of his allies have not forgiven her.

 

Biden announces his decision on social media on July 21, then talks about it on television a few days later.

 

“I revere this office. But I love my country more,” he says from the White House, which he will now have to vacate at the start of the new year. By all accounts, it has been a tortuous decision for this man who suffered publicly through the deaths of his first wife and daughter in an auto accident in the 1970s and the loss of a beloved son to cancer almost 10 years ago.

 

As Biden speaks, it is easy to see another grief piling atop the grandeur of his life. “America’s going to have to choose between moving forward and moving backward, between hope and hate, between unity and division,” he says in a parting shot at Donald Trump. “We have to decide if we still believe in honesty, decency, respect, freedom, justice and democracy.”

Democrats’ hopes that such appeals to principle would be successful have been dashed thus far. Trump’s boastful, inflammatory remarks at the Republican National Convention have cost him nothing. He did not get much of a “convention bounce” in the polls. Candidates hardly do this anymore. However, his numbers remain stable, the attempted assassination has marginally increased his popularity ratings, and Team Trump feels convinced that it has the race under control. Sort of.