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Shortly after President Biden announced he was ending his re-election campaign, former President Donald J. Trump on Sunday afternoon posted on social media a forceful attack denouncing him. Over the next hours, he posted several more.
Senator JD Vance of Ohio will campaign solo as the Republican vice-presidential nominee for the first time on Monday, with two events that also signal the start of a freshly upended race for the White House.
After weeks of speculation, Vice President Kamala Harris, endorsed by President Biden to succeed him as the Democratic presidential candidate this fall, will have a bench of new-generation party leaders to turn to when she moves toward the first critical decision of her candidacy: picking a running mate.
As soon as TV sets landed in American living rooms, media critics worried that television would dominate politics, and the medium wasted no time proving them right. Richard M. Nixon lost in 1960 to the glamorous John F. Kennedy after a shaky, sweaty debate that played better for him on the radio. After Ronald Reagan zingered his way to a second term in 1984, Neil Postman wrote that in the TV era, “debates were conceived as boxing matches.”
Ever since Donald J. Trump won the presidency, Democrats have stuck to a winning electoral playbook: From congressional races to presidential ones, they’ve nominated well-liked, moderate candidates who could appeal to nearly any voter who disliked Mr. Trump and his allies.
Vice President Kamala Harris moved swiftly to lock up Democratic delegates behind her campaign for the White House after President Joe Biden stepped aside amid concerns from within their own party that he would be unable to defeat Republican Donald Trump.
In recent weeks, many Democrats in Silicon Valley had kept uncharacteristically quiet as prominent technology leaders — including Elon Musk and the investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz — endorsed Donald J. Trump for president.
Senator Joseph Manchin, independent of West Virginia, said on Monday that he would not launch his own presidential bid, a rapid shift in tone after a TV appearance earlier in the morning in which he appeared to be flirting with pursuit of the Democratic nomination.