Kamala Harris’s rushed cam­paign plays in her favor: Demo­c­ra­t­ic strate­gists

Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris has rough­ly 100 days between now and Elec­tion Day to make the case to the pub­lic that she is bet­ter suit­ed than for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump to serve in the White House, assum­ing she becomes the Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­nee.
This trun­cat­ed amount of time could be daunt­ing for Har­ris, who did not lead the tick­et until Pres­i­dent Joe Biden exit­ed the 2024 race on Sun­day. But top Demo­c­ra­t­ic strate­gists claimed the short times­pan could actu­al­ly work out in Harris’s favor.
“You could argue they lost some time in fundrais­ing in July, and time mat­ters for fundrais­ing. But, gosh, I’d like to think that was made up for in the last few days when they broke $100 mil­lion. So I’m not con­cerned about that,” Rob­by Mook, Hillary Clinton’s cam­paign man­ag­er in 2016, told Politi­co dur­ing a round­table with two oth­er strate­gists.
With­in 24 hours of Biden endor­si …