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Kamala Harris’s 2024 in Pictures
Text by Nicholas Nehamas
Vice President Kamala Harris has run a presidential campaign like no other in modern American history. Thrust unexpectedly onto the top of the ticket, she had less than four months to take on former President Donald J. Trump, who has dominated the nation’s politics for nearly a decade.
The compressed cycle had disadvantages. She inherited a campaign and playbook that were not hers. She had to quickly introduce herself to voters before turning to a limited rollout of policy. She had little time to counter voters’ anger at President Biden over inflation.
But there were benefits, too. Democratic energy and fund-raising surged. Opposition researchers had just a few months to dig into her background. She avoided a messy primary race.
Ms. Harris has sometimes struggled to explain how her administration would differ from the unpopular Mr. Biden’s. She is running as a change candidate without much detail on what that change might look like. But on the biggest stages, the first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent to lead a major party into a presidential election has been consistent and disciplined. At her party’s convention, she presented herself as a unifying figure with values forged as a prosecutor. She eviscerated Mr. Trump in their only debate, and he refused to participate in another.
This is the story of her campaign as told through some of its most powerful photos.
June 27: New YorkCredit…Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
On June 27, long-brewing Democratic anxieties about Mr. Biden’s age burst into the open when he struggled to string together coherent sentences at a debate against Mr. Trump. Pressure immediately blossomed for him to drop out.
