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RealClearPolitics: The Emerging GOP Plan To Beat Kamala Harris

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks into a microphone

People For President Svante Myrick is quoted on the upcoming election in this article for RealClearPolitics.

The two words that Donald Trump did not say in Milwaukee when accepting the Republican presidential nomination? Kamala Harris. Republicans are now developing a plan in a hurry to beat her in November.

After running against President Biden in 2020 and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016, Trump will now face a third Democrat in 2024 in his attempt to win back the White House. Biden quickly endorsed Vice President Harris after pulling out of the race. Harris said she plans to win the nomination at the Democratic National Convention. Trump insists that whoever he runs against “will just be more of the same.”

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One fundamental change, said Svante Myrick, “is the fact that there is one 80-year-old person in the race and someone who is not.” Myrick, president of People for the American Way and formerly the mayor of Ithaca, New York, said that after Biden’s exit, “younger people are going to be excited about this race.”

“This is the first race since 1976 that didn't have a Biden, a Bush or a Clinton on the ballot,” he said before noting that a new Democratic nominee would provide “the opportunity for a change which is always exciting for young people.”

Read the full article at RealClearPolitics.