2024-08-22
9 分钟Hi, I'm Josh Haner and I'm a staff photographer at the New York Times covering climate change.
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My name is Tressie McMillan Cottam.
I am a sociologist, a professor, and a columnist at the New York Times.
I have been studying race, gender, class and what it means for how we live our everyday lives for maybe 15 years or so.
I was expecting a very different DNC just a month or so ago, but now all of the drama about changing candidates seems to have settled down.
And now I'm going into this convention thinking about how the presumptive nominee, Kamala Harris, will present her personal biography.
The campaign so far has not wanted to play up the historic nature of her campaign, but I think that we, the voting public, would be remiss if we did not acknowledge that not only is this a woman running for president at the top of a major party ticket, this is a black woman, a woman of color, a Gen X woman of color, by the way.
And so I'm very interested to hear how the Kamala Harris campaign understands the significance of her identity and biography relative to what voters expect from a presidential candidate.
It is really interesting that the Harris campaign so far has really dialed back the significance of identity in this campaign message.
And I think there's a couple of reasons for that.
One, let me start by saying I think it is smart after eight years of feeling like, you know, the democratic process is crumbling around them, that politics have become a circus.
I think that this campaign understands that as significant as this candidate is, is most voters right now are really craving a return to normalcy.
And so they've got a challenge here, this campaign, right?