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Donald Trump, the Harris Honeymoon, and Tomorrow Wright: What will you do if you decide to vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton?

The first is the party unity she enjoys by virtue of being the presumptive nominee without having had to endure a bruising Democratic primary battle. I’ve described this as the equivalent of a video game cheat code that lets you skip past some difficult but tedious early levels on the way to directly fighting the big bad boss at the end of the game. Harris didn’t have to spend the last year getting pummeled by, or trying to pummel, Democratic presidential rivals, almost certainly including some of the very Democrats who are now under consideration to be her vice-presidential nominee. Ms. Harris has not yet had to deal with issues of border security, crime and policing, which were issues that divide the Democratic Party, so her views won’t have as much of an impact.

Whatever your feelings are about Donald Trump as a candidate, the pollster Tony Fabrizio, a top adviser for all of Mr. Trump’s presidential campaigns, knows his business. He saw a path to a Trump victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016 that others didn’t. Campaigns often leak polling memos to drive a preferred narrative, so it’s sensible to take such memos with a grain of salt, but when Mr. Fabrizio puts one out, I take it seriously.

I knew it was only a matter of time before polls showed what the Trump campaign was seeing, because he warned about the Harris Honeymoon last week. The New York Times/ Siena poll show the race narrowing to just one-point Trump advantage, which is a big difference from the previous Times/Siena Poll which had shown him ahead of the Vice President.

The first person to greet me was Tomorrow Wright, a pre-K teacher who hadn’t been planning to vote since Joe Biden was still the Democratic candidate.

She said she didn’t agree with either Trump or Biden, and that Biden had disappointed her by not doing more to cancel student loan debt. She was ready for her first ever rally at noon, where she could shade herself from the brutal southern sun under a pink umbrella.

A majority of the other people I met at the Georgia State Convocation Center said they were going to vote for Biden. But with the energy on the ground moribund, many told me they couldn’t rouse themselves to do much more for him, like go to events or volunteer.

Tammy Clabby, a Democratic activist who worked for Hilary Clinton in the 2016 election, said she could not campaign since 2008 because of her previous campaigning. How can I tell a young voter to vote for Joe Biden when he can not finish a sentence in a debate? Everything was changed by Harris. Clabby likened the vibe to the first run by Barack Obama.

It sounded like a dance party at the ebullient rally, where Megan Thee Stallion was performing, and not just when she was performing. The desire of the Democrats to have a fighter take on Trump has brought about a woman who until just a few weeks ago was often overlooked and underestimated.

Some conservatives seem to think the Democrats’ enthusiasm for Harris is part of a media psy-op.

Are it possible to completely manufacture a cultural phenomenon by taking a vapid, left wing San Francisco Democrat and turning her into something that she’s not through nonstop gaslighting? The governor of Florida is on social media.