‘The best available candidate’

She is not the ideal candidate but certainly the best available candidate. This is Robert Kuttner's view of Vice President Kamala Harris. The co-founder of liberal American magazine The American Prospect stresses in an interview with Kathimerini that it has been a long time since he has seen the Democrats so united.

According to Kuttner, "before Biden agreed not to run the general view of Kamala Harris was that people did not really quite understand what she stood for. But since she became effectively the nominee, everybody loves her."

Journalist Robert Kuttner discusses US election dynamics after Harris' bid

With a long career in political commentary and an award-winning author, Kuttner admits that many Democrats were "relieved" by President Joe Biden's withdrawal from the race. "Democrats had become so depressed about the prospect...