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Analysis by John Blake, CNN It’s been called “Kamalamania,” “Kamalmentum,” and “Kamelot.” Others dismiss it as “irrational exuberance,” or a political sugar high led by a “ding dong.” In the five weeks since Kamala Harris upended the 2024 presidential race, the commentariat has used all kinds of phrases to describe Democrats’ euphoria about her sudden White House run.

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Chicago (CNN) — Kamala Harris promised Americans a future that neither Donald Trump nor Joe Biden could deliver, showing how profoundly she has changed the 2024 election. The first Black woman to claim a major party nomination on Thursday styled her “unlikely journey” to the Democratic nod as the springboard

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — If elected this fall, Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff will usher in many “firsts” in American history. Among them: The first White House couple to have worked at McDonald’s. With that line on their resumes, Harris and Emhoff share a link to 1 in 8 Americans

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — There’s nothing new about surge pricing, or “dynamic pricing” as industry proponents call it. When everyone wants tulips at the same time, tulip sellers raise prices. When consumers have moved on to some other fad flower and you’re left with a glut of tulips, prices go

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Kamala Harris has helped America see joy and now she needs to make America see a president. Her speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night will represent her most exacting test yet in a dizzying month that rocketed her to the threshold of an historic presidency

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — The federal government routinely revises economic data, but it rarely makes a correction as large as it did on Wednesday, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported America’s economy created 818,000 fewer jobs than it initially thought over the past year. The new data comes at a

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Michelle Obama paralleled her own story with Vice President Kamala Harris by comparing their mothers on Tuesday night, drawing on a theme that has laced throughout the Democratic National Convention. Obama told delegates in Chicago that the last time she was in her home city, it was

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Let’s just get this out of the way: Elon Musk is almost certainly not going to work for a Donald Trump administration. Anything’s possible, of course, in a Trump 2.0 White House. But to take on any major role in that administration, Musk would have a

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — It’s time to turn joy into votes. Democratic Party Hall of Famers spent the first two days of their party’s convention doubling down on their 11th hour wager on their ebullient new presidential ticket. Now it’s all on Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. The vice president and

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — It’s time to turn joy into votes. Democratic Party Hall of Famers spent the first two days of their party’s convention doubling down on their 11th hour wager on their ebullient new presidential ticket. Now it’s all on Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. The vice president and the

Analysis by Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Americans crave pre-Covid prices. Former President Donald Trump is promising to make them a reality. “Prices will come down,” Trump told voters during a speech last week laying out his vision for a return to the White House. “You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll

Analysis by David Goldman and Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris has picked up the baton from President Joe Biden on the fight against so-called greedflation – the notion that the United States’ inflation crisis was exacerbated by excessive corporate profit-taking that marked up goods or shrunk their sizes and padded businesses’

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Chicago (CNN) — Awash in his party’s love, President Joe Biden finally did become that bridge to a new generation of leaders. He movingly performed the most profound act a politician in a democracy can undertake — willingly handing over power — as he ceded the leadership of the party

Analysis by Ronald Brownstein, CNN (CNN) — The Harris coalition is coming into focus. When Vice President Kamala Harris replaced President Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee last month, her twin challenges were to shore up support with the groups where Biden was weak and to maintain his standing with the groups where he

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Democrats this week will enshrine one of the most audacious power plays in modern political history as they gather for a convention that was hastily reconfigured to try to vault Kamala Harris to a historic presidency. It begins with adulation for President Joe Biden, who will speak

Analysis by Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — CEOs of many of the biggest hotel and travel companies are coming off a bit like doomsayers these days with their warnings about the declining health of consumers and their waning appetite for traveling. It’s getting a lot of attention after last month’s unexpectedly weak jobs

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Democrats this week will enshrine one of the most audacious power plays in modern political history as they gather for a convention that was hastily reconfigured to try to vault Kamala Harris to a historic presidency. It begins with adulation for President Joe Biden, who will speak Monday

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Deep into his ranting news conference on Thursday, former President Donald Trump told a truth that explained everything : “I’m very angry at her.” He was referring to Vice President Kamala Harris, whose late entry into the general election race has left him bitter, disoriented, and mourning the loss of

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Just 10 days ago, anxious markets were freaking out about the US economy, convinced that the recession we’ve avoided for three years was finally happening. It appears to have be a wild overreaction (amplified by some unrelated financial shenanigans) to a single report on the labor

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Deep into his ranting news conference on Thursday, former President Donald Trump told a truth that explained everything : “I’m very angry at her.” He was referring to Vice President Kamala Harris, whose late entry into the general election race has left him bitter, disoriented, and mourning the loss of the