{"id":15108,"date":"2024-07-24T16:37:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T23:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15108"},"modified":"2024-07-24T17:00:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T00:00:48","slug":"kamala-rising-bradcast-7242024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15108","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Rising: ‘BradCast’ 7\/24\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are still hanging on for dear life here at The BradCast<\/i><\/a> amid the past four weeks of non-stop political upheavals. But, at least this week, we’ve got some much<\/i> more encouraging stuff to hang on to. For now. [Audio link to full show is posted below this summary.<\/i>]\n

It remains to be seen how fleeing it all is, but over the past several days, I must say, I have never seen Democrats more united and elated as they have been since Kamala Harris<\/b> ascended to become their presumptive 2024 Presidential nominee. One has to go back to the nomination of Barack Obama<\/b> in 2008 for anything even close to the kind of giddy excitement and optimism we’ve seen since Joe Biden<\/b> decided to drop out and pass the torch to Harris on Sunday. But, even back in 2008, the party was still smarting and somewhat riven over the outcome of a long and bruising primary cycle between Obama and Hilary Clinton<\/b> (who wrote a very<\/i> good op-ed<\/a> about all of this in the Times<\/i> yesterday, btw.)<\/p>\n

The first polls taken solely after Biden’s announcement and endorsement on Sunday are now beginning to trickle out, with a new Reuters\/Ipsos survey<\/a> taken on Monday and Tuesday this week finding Harris now up<\/i> over Donald Trump<\/b> nationally by 2 points. That may be a small lead, but it’s a 4-point swing as compared to Trump’s 2-point lead over Biden last week. Moreover, when RFK, Jr.<\/b> was included in the question to respondents, Harris’ lead grew to 4<\/i> points over Trump in the first polling from this outfit that has seen the former President actually losing<\/i> to a Democrat since May<\/a> of this year. <\/p>\n

Furthermore, as one of our guests notes today, in the week following a party’s national convention, we traditionally see a bounce for that party of anywhere from 2 to 4 points. In this one poll, at least, there is not only no bounce, but a loss<\/i> of support for the GOP candidate following last week’s Republican National Convention. <\/p>\n

Of course, be sure to mind all of the usual caveats about such polls — only one poll, margin of error, snapshot in time, national versus state numbers, etc. Nonetheless, the numbers would seem to be encouraging news for Dems after many weeks of the opposite.<\/p>\n

To that end, we’ve got a lot<\/i> to make sense of from the past several remarkable days, and we’re joined by two old friends to help us do so. Our steadfast HEATHER DIGBY PARTON<\/b> of Salon<\/a> and Hullabaloo<\/a> is here once again, along with JOHN AMATO<\/b>, creator of the notorious Crooks & Liars<\/a> blog, for the first time in a while.<\/p>\n

Among our many topics of discussion, debate and tomfoolery today…<\/p>\n