The US Presidential Elections: Before and After the Harris-Trump Debate

Before The period between August 2, when Vice-President Harris clearly became the Democratic Party’s nominee, and the evening of September 10 was noteworthy for four reasons: Harris’s surge in both polling and fundraising; the Trump campaign’s frantic response to that surge; the defection to Harris of some prominent Republicans from the Reagan/Bush era; and a legal war in many American states betw. [...] With Harris in the lead, too, the campaign broke every fundraising record on the books in the two weeks before the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, not an insignificant achievement at a time when huge waves of money wash through American politics with major consequences. [...] More important, the strategy behind the DNC worked: Harris emerged looking like the candidate of change, with former President Trump suddenly yesterday’s news, weighed down by the burden of his incumbency. [...] After Even if the Harris-Walz ticket wins the popular vote on November 5 it could still lose the Electoral College vote and hence the election. [...] None of this is necessarily illegal, and if these efforts succeed in denying the Harris- Walz ticket the 270 Electoral College votes needed for certifying victory, then the election would by law – the 12th Amendment – be thrown into the House of Representatives where each state has one bloc vote.