2024-08-16
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You've heard the news, here's what to make of it.
My name is Michelle Goldberg.
I'm an opinion columnist at the New York Times.
So I was recently in Atlanta covering one of the first rallies of Kamala Harris presidential campaign.
And one of the things that I to understand going to the Harris rally was there's been a lot of talk in the media of whether this is a sugar high, whether she's in some short lived honeymoon period and the energy is going to fade once she comes under a lot of sustained scrutiny from the right.
And you know, I'm not going to pretend that one rally gives you the answer to that question, but I wanted to see for myself just how real and this explosion of enthusiasm was.
So I covered the election in 2016.
You know, I was going to Trump rallies and also to events for Hillary Clinton.
And I just remember being at the dnc and even though the DNC was kind of orchestrated extremely well, I just had this feeling in the pit of my stomach that like, the energy was with Trump.
And I kept saying to myself, well, you know, anecdote isn't the same thing as data and the pollsters must know what they're doing.
But I just don't feel good about this.
And I think that the outcome of that election has taught me, you know, not always to trust my own intuitions over the data, but to take intuition seriously.
And I think to really form those intuitions, you just have to be there.
There was 10,000 people lined up hours before it started in this really punishing Southern heat.