Kamala Harris 2020 campaign was a mess If she replaces Biden, this time could be a lot different.

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Biden won in 2020 by 4.5 percentage points nationally, but he now trailed Trump by about 2 points, according to a Washington Post average of polls. Public surveys since the debate showed him down slightly in the must-win Northern swing states and by larger margins in Western and Southern states he hoped to win. Some advisers traded accusations, without evidence, that top aides had misplaced loyalties, selfish interests, personal ambitions.

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• James Carville, the Bill Clinton strategist who had long called for Biden to get out, worked the phone from a cruise ship off the coast of Alaska, trying to divine what happens next and get his party to a better place.
• But Fulks spoke those words on behalf of a president no longer backed by an entire party.
• The terrible Biden debate was followed by a far more terrible attempted assassination of Trump on live television July 13, from which the former president rose triumphant — fist in the air, blood streaked across his face.
• The former president also shared details about his attempted assassination during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday and the phone call that followed between him and President Biden.
• With only a few months to wage a campaign against Trump, Harris couldn’t afford to repeat the mistakes that tanked her last presidential bid.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued an apology Tuesday morning on social media after his son shared a video of the longshot independent candidate on the phone with former President Donald Trump, who tried to persuade Kennedy to endorse him. By that point, Harris was running fifth, her poll numbers down to 6%. That fall, Harris’ campaign laid off staff and moved others from her national headquarters in Baltimore to Iowa to save money. Put another way, Harris — even being 59 and the incumbent vice president —represented something new in a campaign defined by old. And that stoked some enthusiasm among voters who were very unenthused. White — who is the only woman to have won AVN’s Female Performer of the Year three times — remains one of the world’s most prominent porn stars.

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“It is difficult to find a partner that you truly connect with,” White — who has been dubbed “the Meryl Streep of porn” — admitted to the audience. Harris mentioned a “little girl” in California who had been bused to school every day. Within hours of the exchange, her campaign triumphantly started selling “That little girl was me” T-shirts for $29.99 apiece.

As Trump welcomed his new running mate this week in Milwaukee, video footage showed a delicate Biden struggling to get up the short stairs to Air Force One on his way to further isolation. Aides passed along the footage in dismay, a person familiar with the messages said. But now even Pelosi was saying Biden needed more time to decide what he said he had already decided. Former president Barack Obama, Biden’s old running mate and governing partner, told allies that the path to victory had diminished. House Democrats, who had planned to cast Republicans as “chaos agents” in the fall, edged toward revolution. Seven more called for Biden to step aside on the day of his NATO news conference.

He echoed others when he said he was not sure how Biden finds a way out of the spiral in which he is caught — a constant questioning about the path to victory that only makes the path to victory harder. At the White House, officials stoked the fires they could control. The policy shop began to fast-track plans that had long been in the works, including a blueprint to create term limits for the Supreme Court and impose new ethics rules on the justices — catnip for the liberal base. Propeller heads finalized a plan for legislation to take away tax rebates from corporate landlords who increased rent by more than 5 percent a year, a potentially massive new federal intervention to reverse a major driver of inflation. But Fulks spoke those words on behalf of a president no longer backed by an entire party. Two-thirds of the country, including 56 percent of Democrats, said in a Washington Post-ABC-Ipsos poll in early July that Biden should drop out.

Other officials said more effort was still being put into planning a future agenda. The preparations for a Trump takeover, they added, had begun months earlier, as a normal course of business. The conversation occurred just two days after the assassination attempt against Trump, who had posted on social media that it was “imperative” for Kennedy to receive Secret Service protection.