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ificandream

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Sun Oct 6, 2024, 12:49 PM Oct 2024

Harris weighs more breaks with Biden as he keeps injecting himself into the campaign (CNN) [View all]


Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden. - Getty Images

Top aides to Kamala Harris are heading into the final month of the 2024 presidential race still wrestling with how much distance she can credibly claim from Joe Biden as she looks for more ways to weave in breaks with him on the campaign trail.

But she keeps getting pulled back to his side for official business at the White House — and he keeps injecting himself into the conversation.

Harris aides are looking at rolling out new plans and promises for what Harris would do as president, in part to directly demonstrate notable differences, like in her recent more blunt speeches about abortion rights and tackling the southern border.

“The challenge” of having so little time left in such a short race, one adviser to the vice president told CNN, is “when you’re trying to reach undecided low-intensity voters, how do you actually communicate difference with Biden?”


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/06/politics/harris-biden-breaks/index.html

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I think the headline overstates the Biden factor, but the story itself makes some going points.
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