Perhaps it was just the “new” of Kamala Harris’s campaign for president, being picked suddenly by the Democrat party elite to replace a Joe Biden hwo was exhibiting more and more public instances of a mental decline.
Maybe Democrats were just so relieved to be rid of him. Or to wish for their first woman president. Or something.
But polls for a time after her announcement often showed her closer to Trump’s numbers than Biden had been in a long time.
But it didn’t last long...