Harris took great pains to emphasize that the final outcome of the titular 107 days — the loss of every swing state and the popular vote — had been the result of her simple lack of time. “It was an unprecedented election,” Harris averred. “Just think about this for a moment. The sitting president of the United States, three and a half months before the election, decides not to run for reelection. This sitting vice president takes up the mantle against the former president of the United States, who had been running for 10 years, with 107 days to go.”
Had she had more time, maybe, she could’ve sealed the deal. It’s true, everyone now agrees, that President Joe Biden should never have run for reelection in the first place. But it’s also true that much of Harris’ best polling was at the campaign’s outset, and arguably began slipping once Americans had gotten to see more of the candidate.
Haines shifted the conversation to the epigraph of 107 Days, a quote from Kendrick Lamar’s track “Loyalty” — “you being a loyal person, being loy
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