Lessons Learned

CLR Show 1960. Air Date August 27, 2024. The Harris-Walz campaign has done more than captivate America. It has proven to be a remarkably astute student of American political history and a brilliant avoider of political pitfalls. Rather than focusing on its differentiations from Joe Biden, it has elevated him to the status of American folk hero ('I love my job, but I love my country more') while assiduously avoiding every pitfall of the 2016 Clinton campaign, including the hubris and self-righteous presumptions of inevitable victory. This is the true genius of the Harris campaign and of the candidate herself. And it seems hard to imagine that the entire strategy and the tools of its seemingly flawless execution were only first conceptualized after Joe Biden retired from the race. We'll invariably learn more about that in the future.