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Can Kamala Harris escape the ‘Hubert Humphrey problem’?

8 October 2024

9:00 AM

8 October 2024

9:00 AM

When the sitting president is not running for reelection, the party typically turns to his vice president as the “natural” nominee. That’s true again this year, now that the Democratic Party powerbrokers forced Biden out of the race, fearing he would not only lose the White House but sink down-ballot Democrats alongside him.

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