{"id":57422,"date":"2024-08-09T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T00:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57422"},"modified":"2024-08-09T00:01:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T00:01:17","slug":"harris-reshapes-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57422","title":{"rendered":"Harris reshapes election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Kamala Harris&#8217;s stunning 11th-hour arrival in the center of the US political conversation drives home a point I want to make about the length of our election process.<\/p>\n<p>It need not drag on for months and months!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost impossible to comprehend, but the vice president has been campaigning for president for less than a month. <em>Less than one month!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She and her team have raised hundreds of millions of dollars, she has picked a vice-presidential candidate to run with her, she and Donald J. Trump have agreed to a debate on Sept. 10, Harris is formulating an economic strategy.<\/p>\n<p>All of this and more has occurred in less than a month.<\/p>\n<p>Circumstances overwhelmed the previous presumptive Democratic frontrunner, President Joe Biden. He pulled out and endorsed Harris to take over the top spot. If there has been a more perfect roll-out of a presidential campaign, then someone will have to show it to me. Because this one looked like perfection in real time.<\/p>\n<p>It all just goes to demonstrate that we need not drag this process out forever and then some!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never wondered aloud how we could shorten the length of time we devote to political campaigning. Would it require a federal law enacted by Congress? An amendment to the U.S. Constitution? Does each state have the power to ban campaign activity?<\/p>\n<p>We ought to look at all of the above.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamala Harris&#8217;s stunning 11th-hour arrival in the center of the US political conversation drives home a point I want to make about the length of our election process. It need not drag on for months and months! It&#8217;s almost impossible to comprehend, but the vice president has been campaigning for president for less than a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57422\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harris reshapes election<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9543,2505,8357],"class_list":["post-57422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2024-election","tag-joe-biden","tag-kamala-harris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57423,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57422\/revisions\/57423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}