Kamala Harris gets the chance to press reset on the 2024 race against Donald Trump

The breakneck developments have left the political world in America gasping for breath as everyone tries to reorient themselves to a new reality

Kamala Harris is only 59, giving her a claim to representing generational change that Biden could never fulfill. File photo: AP/Cliff Owen

For the past year, the presidential campaign seemed destined to be a monotonous slog featuring two candidates, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, that voters didn’t really want.

But that all changed on a quiet Sunday afternoon just 107 days before the election. Biden’s decision to drop out of the race and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor resets the campaign with a swiftness that is unparalleled in modern American politics.