WTH: Biden Out. Harris In. Ruy Teixeira Explains.

President Biden's sudden withdrawal from the 2024 election may
have come as a surprise, but his endorsement of Vice President
Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party's coalescing around the VP
to be at the top of their ticket is not. The party of identity
politics is now taking a huge gamble with an untested and
unpopular likely nominee for president. Not only has Harris been
less popular than Biden throughout his presidency, but she's
entering the general election with a dismal electoral track
record and will be forced to defend the current administration's
unpopular policies. How will candidate Harris perform against
Trump on the national stage? And how might a President Harris
continue or change Biden's policy agenda?


Ruy Teixeira is a nonresident senior fellow at the American
Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on the transformation of
party coalitions and the future of American electoral politics.
Before joining AEI, he was a senior fellow at the Center for
American Progress. Teixeira is co-author of the books The
Emerging Democratic Majority (Scribner, 2002) and Where Have All
the Democrats Gone? The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes
(Henry Holt & Company, 2023).


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