Kamala Harris gives Democrats a fighting chance

Fintan O'Toole and Suzanne Lynch discuss an extraordinary period in US politics

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US vice president Kamala Harris gave her first speech as the de facto Democratic nominee to a deafening crowd. Photograph: Kenny Holston / The New York Times.

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Can Kamala Harris win against Donald Trump?

Former Irish Times Washington correspondent Suzanne Lynch covered Harris’s unsuccessful 2020 primary campaign and the early part of her subsequent vice-presidency.

She joins Hugh Linehan and Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole to look at who Harris is and how her White House experience has changed her.

They also assess the shape of the race for the presidency after an extraordinary period in US politics.

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