If you’re compiling a list of the head-spinning, gob-smacking, I’ve-never-seen-this-before events of the 2024 campaign, here’s one more potentially decisive factor to add: A sitting vice president has become the “change” candidate.
Not really “gob-smacking” when the challenger has already held the office for four years while the VP may have the presidents ear, but very little control over anything in the administration.
(This actually made me curious so I looked it up, and it turns out Harris has cast more tie-breaking votes in the Senate than any other VP in history and her votes account for over 10% of all tie-breaking votes ever cast [33/301])
Not really “gob-smacking” when the challenger has already held the office for four years while the VP may have the presidents ear, but very little control over anything in the administration.
(This actually made me curious so I looked it up, and it turns out Harris has cast more tie-breaking votes in the Senate than any other VP in history and her votes account for over 10% of all tie-breaking votes ever cast [33/301])