The Harris campaign is on a roll. But all honeymoons come to an end

Vice President Harris has had a three-week launch to her campaign that most candidates can only dream of. Democratic enthusiasm is off the charts, money is flowing in, and volunteers are flocking to sign up to help get out the vote ahead of Nov. 5.

But campaign veterans say this honeymoon — like those that came before it — will end. They always do.

“There’s definitely a new energy that’s there. It’s just a question of, will that energy still be there after Labor Day?” said Andra Gillespie, a political scientist at Emory University.

Harris has yet to lay out a lot of detailed policies, sit down for a tough media interview, or debate her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump.

And to this point, Trump and his campaign have struggled to figure out attacks on Harris that will stick. “So far they’ve been easy, because they’ve been disjointed or outrageous, but she’s going to have to prepare for an attack that lands,” Gillespie said.

Clinton 2016: a campaign that didn’t have a honeymoon

No one expected Harris would have it this easy, said Robby Mook, who ran Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.

Mook said Harris stepped into the role so late in the game that there’s still a novelty to her candidacy — and she escaped having to go through a bruising 18-month primary.

“When you launch a campaign, normally you're expected to kind of have everything on day one,” Mook said, explaining Harris has been given unusual latitude because of the unusual way she was nominated. Her campaign website still doesn’t have a policy page, for instance.

“All that said, at some point she's gonna sit down and have interviews and get hard questions. The campaign is gonna make a mistake. These things happen,” he said.

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