Democrats prepare for ‘Harris Honeymoon’ to wear off

Vice President Kamala Harris could not have asked for a better rollout week.

President Joe Biden endorsed her. Most labor unions got behind her quickly, she’s raised a trove of cash and on Friday, she secured the endorsement of former president Barack Obama. Polling shows she’s performing better in some swing states than Biden did.

“So this is, and long has been, a vibes election, it is not a list-making election,” Jon Reinish, a Democratic strategist, told The Independent. “It's not just Kamala Harris and the campaign that she is quickly building and or has inherited. It's down ballot. But, I mean, it's also that, it's in the White House, on the government side, on the policy side.”

The Harris campaign has also hit the Trump campaign for the former president pulling out of the second debate. In the same token, on Thursday evening, a Zoom call titled White Women for Harris featured tons of would-be donors and celebrities such as actress Connie Britton and athletes like soccer legend Megan Rapinoe and retired WNBA superstar Sue Bird all joined it, as did gun control activist Shannon Watts and Michigan state senator Mallory McMorrowsuch raising a trove of cash for the vice president, generating jokes on social media about it being “Karens for Kamala.”

Felicity Pereyra, a former data director for the Democratic National Committee, was on the White Women for Harris call and a separate Latinas for Harris Zoom call.

“You can't manufacture this, this is all organic,” Pereyra told The Independent. “This is all real. And again, like she can her campaign can harness this.”

By the same token, Republicans have been forced to recalibrate. As Inside Washington reported earlier this week, Donald Trump’s campaign is labeling Harris’s