The New York Times issued a 2,200-word Sunday front-page encomium by White House correspondent Erica L. Green, in support of struggling President Biden’s suddenly significant second-in-command: “Kamala Harris Has Stepped Up. If Biden Falters, Can She Lead?” The print edition headline was less fiery: “Harris Emerges From Sidelines As Democrats Rethink the Ticket.”
Green tried to make the case that Harris, a word-salad gaffe machine and figure of mockery on the right, is ready to take over the leadership of the free world from Biden. Apparently she has already prepared for the moment.
By early this year, around the time a prosecutor called President Biden a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Vice President Kamala Harris already knew something had to change.
It was up to her, she had told allies, to finally distinguish herself in her job — something she had been struggling to do for more than two years — and reassure Am …