In DNC finale, Kamala Harris asks America to turn the page

What occurred

Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic presidential nomination yesterday, capping a spirited four-day Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago — and a “turnaround with no precedent in American politics,” Semafor stated.

Who stated what

Simply 32 days after President Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid and endorsed her, Harris used the “most consequential speech of her political profession to solid herself as an avatar of America’s center class” and a secure path away from the “abrasive” chaos of Donald Trump, The Washington Publish stated. Harris combined her background as a daughter of immigrants and public prosecutor with a paean to American greatness and a reducing critique of Trump.

“My complete profession I’ve solely had one consumer: the folks,” Harris stated. Trump’s “solely consumer” has at all times been “himself.” Trump is “in some ways” an “unserious man,” she stated, however the penalties of placing him again within the White Home, now with “no guardrails,” are “extraordinarily critical.” She urged Individuals to embrace this “treasured, fleeting alternative to maneuver previous the bitterness, cynicism and divisive battles of the previous — an opportunity to chart a brand new manner ahead,” collectively.

Trump criticized Harris’ speech in actual time on social media, then on Fox Information. “It was a number of complaining” about issues she might have already solved, he stated on Fox. Harris is “not having success — I am having success,” with “the Hispanic voters, doing nice with Black males, I am doing nice with ladies.”

What subsequent?

Harris now has to “preserve the momentum of the primary month of her candidacy,” The Wall Road Journal stated. Some Democrats are “privately starting to dream” her momentum will “carry her for an additional 10-plus weeks,” The New York Instances stated, however “many are bracing for the chance of stumbles towards essentially the most unpredictable of opponents.”