OutKick writer Mary Katharine Ham and Democratic strategist Tim Hogan break down JD Vance's criticism of Harris VP nominee Tim Walz's military record. It’s all about the vibe. A word not usually associated with presidential politics — more with late night parties and a bong — is now the only thing that matters.
At least if you’re Kamala Harris . She’s on the cover of Time — with an admiring sketch that makes it look like she’s already president — because of "the swiftest vibe shift in American political history." DESPITE RUNNING MATE’S ULTRA-LIBERAL RECORD, MOST OF THE MEDIA JUMP ON THE WALZ-WAGON Is that all it takes to win? It doesn’t hurt that the vice president has surged in the polls, raised truckloads of cash, become a cultural phenomenon, had a relatively successful rollout of Tim Walz, and will get a further bump from the Democratic convention.
But after that, will it prove to be a sugar high? Will her numbers slide back to where they were in the face of Republican attacks? For the time being, at least, Donald Trump seems off balance, his attacks on Harris aren’t sticking, and he openly pines for Joe Biden after spending years preparing to run against the frail 81-year-old president. What’s more, with Biden bowing out, Trump, at 78, is now the old man in the race. And many of the pundits who spent their time defending Biden’s mental acuity have now flipped into arguing that Trump is just losing it.
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