The Biden Campaign Has No Choice but to Revive Kamala Harris

Team Biden must now play the terrible hand it’s dealt itself.

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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at an abortion rights rally at Howard University in Washington, D.C., April 25, 2023.

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The video announcing the start of Joe Biden’s reelection campaign was not subtle. It featured very little of Joe Biden and a lot of figures meant to appeal to the voters the Biden campaign knows it needs to excite if the president is to have any hope of winning a second term. It featured Barack Obama. It featured the late representative John Lewis. It featured Reverend Al Sharpton. And to a conspicuous degree, it featured more of Kamala Harris than many voters have seen of her for the better part of a year.

In case you weren’t yet sufficiently bludgeoned by the thuddingly unimaginative strategic calculations the president’s reelection team has made in advance of 2024, White House sources made their arithmetic plain in background conversations with NBC News reporters.

Noah Rothman

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Noah Rothman

Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. His third book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence, was published by Hachette in May 2026.

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