Kamala Harris, vice president of the United States and Democratic Party candidate in the American election, is the subject of this week’s edition of Time magazine. The publication, released this Monday (12), shows the path taken by the Californian prosecutor to reach the nomination in the race for the White House and the main challenges she must face in the dispute against former president Donald Trump, candidate for the Republican Party.
In the image that illustrates the magazine’s cover, Time mixed Harris’ portrait with images of her supporters at campaign events, highlighting the popular mobilization that followed her nomination and Joe Biden’s exit from the race.
The reintroduction of Kamala Harris https://t.co/noW5TOgawP pic.twitter.com/iLmQIhxOeF
— TIME (@TIME) August 12, 2024
“Harris has achieved the fastest climate change in modern political history. A race that revolved around the cognitive decline of a geriatric president has been transformed: Joe Biden is out, Harris is in, and a second Donald Trump presidency no longer seems inevitable,” wrote the journalist who wrote the article, Charlotte Alter.
The publication also highlights the way Harris was able to reach out to young voters in the US, mainly by using social media strategies and, at the same time, gathering the support of big names from Generation Z, such as British singer Charli XCX and American Mega Thee Stallion.
“Harris’s rebranding — the happy-warrior attitude, the viral memes, the eye-rolling at Republican “weirdos” — has already done what no Trump opponent has ever been able to do: steal the spotlight from him,” the text highlights.
Time also points to the antagonism between Kamala and Trump. The Democratic candidate was a prosecutor and Trump is a politician convicted of tax fraud; the Democrat is a defender of reproductive rights and the Republican was responsible for the Supreme Court nominations that reversed federal access to abortion. She is linked to the new progressive generations and he is a 78-year-old conservative Republican.
“Whether Harris can sustain her early success is an open question. What is clear is that she has changed the trajectory of the election,” the text concludes.
Source: CNN Brasil
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