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As the election looms, can Harris’s campaign juggle joy with a sense of gravity? | Osita Nwanevu

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Julian Zelizer : This election already feels like it’s stretched on surreally for eons long enough that several distinct and quite different feeling periods have been pressed into the fossil record.

He says the first campaign, in those early days and weeks after she stepped into the race, was defined by relief and exuberance, bundled up into repeated invocations of “joy” a word that established an immediate contrast between Harris and both Biden and Trump .

Zelizer says that gave way predictably and immediately to unbridled enthusiasm for Kamala Harris once Biden stepped away.

The more time Harris spends framing the right as bizarre and culturally alien, the less time she’ll spend implicitly, and wrongly, conceding that they might be right on an issue like immigration.

The garbage about barbecued cats isn’t something to be laughed off, says Osita Nwanevu .

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