Longtime Dem consultant Doug Sosnik, who before July 21st was not sugarcoating President Joe Biden’s prospects, tells Politico Playbook that now he sees Vice President Kamala Harris on the cusp of transcending merely campaigning to leading a movement on the scale of Reagan in 1980, Obama in 2008, and Trump in 2016: “In my political lifetime, there have been three political movements in presidential politics. And to be clear, a movement in politics is way bigger than a campaign.”
“Harris is not the leader of a movement now. She’s still the leader of a campaign. But she has been making strides and she could – by the end of the month, particularly if the convention goes well in Chicago – she could be at a point where she’s a head of a movement which is bigger than a candidate, and that’s pretty much unstoppable. She’s not that far from being there. And I think it’s a combination of her circumstances, but also, probably more importantly, how she’s handled herself as a candidate so far,” said Sosnik, who we’ll have to look to for a review after the DNC next week.