Past US elections, including in 2016, are no guide to the uniqueness of this one.
Are we not entertained? No polls could capture the weirdness of the past seven days in American politics.There was also the strange anointing of Yale-educated, Silicon Valley-funded J.D. Vance as America’s hillbilly-in-chief.Yet amid the drama is a constant that will outlast the mood swings. The US election is now a battle between a man and a woman. They are not just any man and woman.
But it was based on an assumption that quickly vanished – that a visibly ailing Mr Biden would be his opponent. It is hard to imagine that her lightning elevation was not influenced by the tone of Trump’s message in Milwaukee last week.Past US elections are no guide to the uniqueness of this one. Trump sensibly avoided pledging a national abortion ban on the Republican platform. But his 39-year-old running mate believes that life begins at conception.
First, she has room to redefine herself. Insiders believe that she is a poor campaigner whose liberalism alienates centrist Americans. But most Americans know little about her.
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