Wake up with the Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er: GOP has to han­dle Har­ris and Democ­rats fend off democ­ra­cy ques­tions

Cop­ing with Kamala
Repub­li­cans want­ed to push Pres­i­dent Joe Biden out of the White House, but not quite like this. With the president’s his­toric deci­sion to take him­self out of con­tention for a sec­ond term and Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris hurtling toward the nom­i­na­tion, there is a mad dash by every­one to set the terms of the new fight. 
Most of the lev­el-set­ting is being done by Repub­li­cans, who had count­ed on ham­mer­ing Biden and Democ­rats on the president’s age and men­tal fit­ness. Pol­i­cy ques­tions could get tacked on as vot­ers express grave con­cerns about the econ­o­my, infla­tion, and ille­gal immi­gra­tion, but even those prob­lems have been trend­ing pos­i­tive­ly. 
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