The Astonishing Rise—and Uncertain Odds—of Kamala Harris’s Presidential Campaign

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🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Though historically unpopular as a Vice-President, Harris unified the Democratic Party around her. Evan Osnos reports on her emergence as a contender for the White House.

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0:00.0	Listen to support it, WNYC Studios.
0:07.0	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and the New Yorker.
0:17.0	Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour, I'm David Remnick.
0:23.4	Since July 21st, when Joe Biden stepped aside from the presidential race,
0:28.2	all eyes have been on Vice President Kamala Harris,
0:31.2	and no one, I think, has been watching more keenly than the New Yorkers Evan
0:35.3	Osnos. Evan is a longtime staff writer in Washington and over the past
0:40.2	months he's been speaking with dozens of people close to Harris from her
0:44.4	childhood her days as a California prosecutor right up to this lightning round
0:49.3	campaign for the presidency. Evan I think we have to kind of get this out of the way.
0:57.1	The last time you were on the show we talked about the Democratic candidate for president Joe Biden.
1:03.2	Yeah.
1:04.2	That was back in March.
1:04.8	And you said he didn't do anything that made me think that his mind is any
1:08.8	different than it was in 2020, but there's this contrast,
1:11.7	this juxtaposition between how he looks and the things that he says that I think is in some ways
1:18.5	What every voter is trying to navigate through and make sense of so how did you make sense of it and at what
1:25.2	point did you change your assessment of him? I think like a lot of people I was
1:31.7	pretty shocked by what I saw in the debate. It was not the case
1:36.7	that in the interview he was trailing off or staring into space the way he was
1:41.8	when he got on TV in June. I remember his aides who had pushed to have him do this debate because they thought,
1:52.4	oh well if the world sees this guy answering questions
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