Kamala’s campaign borrows Joe’s playbook, relying on Teleprompter for speeches
Kamala Harris isn’t in the cellar of the Naval Observatory campaigning via Zoom calls à la Joe Biden in 2020.
No, she’s speaking to adoring crowds fired up by pop stars. She’s identifying herself with powerful (if somewhat esoteric) cultural trends. She’s clapping back against Donald Trump with panache.
Indeed, in one of the great political transformations of our time, she’s gone from a sub-par vice president to the second coming of Barack Obama in the space of about two weeks.
Except Obama was a genuine political talent who was glib enough to handle almost anything.
He wasn’t an intellectual but was a writer with intellectual interests — in another life, he could have been a staffer at the New Yorker instead of president of the United States (would that it had been so).
The people most aware that Kamala isn’t truly a new version of Obama are the people around her, who clearly fear putting her in any setting where she isn’t reading from a script.
Biden’s basement campaign in 2020 kept him from having to go out and build a crowd, but he did interviews.
Kamala’s teleprompter campaign in 2024 is meant to limit her exposure to keep her from inadvertently bursting the media bubble that’s been created around her.
In that, her campaign may resemble the pre-debate Biden approach this year more than his limited stumping in 2020.
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