Republicans shouldn’t underestimate Kamala Harris

Joe Biden has bowed to the inevitable in withdrawing from the presidential race and endorsing his Vice President, Kamala Harris. Only now has the presidential race become interesting as the 59-year-old Harris, who is more than likely to receive the Democratic nomination, prepares to face off against Donald Trump. Suddenly the Republican candidate has become the old codger while the probable Democratic one represents generational change. Trump, you could even say, has become yesterday’s news.

This is why Republicans would be wise not to underestimate Harris, a former federal prosecutor and California senator whose early years as Vice President were marked, among other things, by public scrutiny of her staff shakeups. But that scrutiny appears to have toughened her up. Her public speaking skills, if her recent appearances are anything to go by, seem to have markedly improved. She will slash away at Trump on abortion – her pinned tweet states: ‘More than 1 in 3 women of reproductive age live in a state with a Trump Abortion Ban – many with no exceptions for rape or incest’ – and she regularly invokes Project