{"id":40428,"date":"2024-07-08T04:31:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T04:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=40428"},"modified":"2024-07-08T04:32:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T04:32:38","slug":"could-kamala-harris-beat-donald-trump-in-novembers-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=40428","title":{"rendered":"Could Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump in November&#8217;s presidential race?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON, July 7  &#8211; She worries Republican donors, has name recognition, and Democratic Party heavyweights are beginning to line up behind her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vice President Kamala Harris would be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/topic\/person\/joe-biden\/\">President Joe Biden&#8217;s<\/a>&nbsp;natural successor if he bowed to growing pressure and stepped aside as the Democratic candidate in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/topic\/event\/us-elections\/\">2024 election<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/vp-harris-top-choice-replace-biden-election-race-if-he-steps-aside-sources-say-2024-07-03\/\">top Democrats say<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now party donors, activists and officials are asking: Does she have a better chance than Biden of beating&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/topic\/person\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>? Biden has said repeatedly he is staying in the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harris, 59, a former U.S. senator and California attorney general, would be the first woman to be president of the United States if she becomes the party&#8217;s nominee and prevails in the Nov. 5 election. She is the first African American and Asian person to serve as vice president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her 3-1\/2 year White House tenure has been characterized by a lackluster start, staff turnover, and early policy portfolios including migration from Central America that did not produce major successes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As recently as last year, many inside the White House and the Biden campaign team privately worried Harris was a liability for the campaign. The situation has changed significantly since then, Democratic officials have said, as she&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/kamala-harris-pushes-envelope-biden-struggles-with-some-democrats-2024-03-29\/\">stepped forward<\/a>&nbsp;on abortion rights and courted young voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She &#8220;is proud to be his running mate and looks forward to serving at his side for four more years,&#8221; the Biden Harris campaign told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: WASHINGTON, July 7 &#8211; She worries Republican donors, has name recognition, and Democratic Party heavyweights are beginning to line up behind her. Vice President Kamala Harris would be&nbsp;President Joe Biden&#8217;s&nbsp;natural successor if he bowed to growing pressure and stepped aside as the Democratic candidate in the&nbsp;2024 election,&nbsp;top Democrats say. Now party donors, activists and officials are asking: Does she have a better chance than Biden of beating&nbsp;Donald Trump? Biden has said repeatedly he is staying in the race. Harris, 59, a former U.S. senator and California attorney general, would be the first woman to be president of the United&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40430,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40428\/revisions\/40430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}