What would a Biden-endorsed Kamala Harris presidency look like?

The Democratic party is taking a historic gamble now that Vice President Kamala Harris is running as its presidential candidate, as betting that a Black woman can overcome racism, sexism and her own missteps as a politician to defeat Republican Donald Trump. In more than two centuries of democracy, American voters have elected only one Black president and never a woman, a record that makes even some Black voters wonder if Harris can crash through the hardest ceiling in US politics. “Will her race and gender be an issue? Absolutely,” said LaTosha Brown, a political strategist and co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund. Harris would face other big challenges: if promoted to the top of the ticket, she would have barely three months to campaign and unite the party and donors behind her. Yet many Democrats are excited about her chances. US PRESIDENT Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris attend an Independence Day celebration in Washington, last week. (credit: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Some three dozen Democratic lawmakers have voiced fears that President Joe Biden, 81, will lose an election that the party has cast as a battle for the future of US democracy because he lacks the mental and...