For Vice President Kamala Harris, the first general election debate of 2024 turned up the intensity of an already glaring spotlight.
Within minutes of the end of the debate, during which President Joe Biden fumbled to the point of driving open debate among Democrats over whether he should be replaced at the top of the ticket, Harris was defending his record on CNN.
“It was a slow start. That’s obvious to everyone,” she told an unusually aggressive Anderson Cooper. “I’m not going to debate that point. I’m talking about the choice in November. I’m talking about one of the most important elections in our collective lifetime. And do we want to look at what November will bring and go on a course for America that is about a destruction of democracy?”
Harris’s swift defense of Biden underscored the growing role she has played in advancing his agenda, both at official…
