With Biden gone, Trump will need a new attack plan for the younger Kamala Harris

By Christopher Featherstone, Associate Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of York

When Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential election race he changed the nature of the campaign. In the three weeks following the notorious presidential debate, Biden’s withdrawal came to be seen as a matter of when, not if. Now the Democratic party’s ticket is in flux and its campaign will look very different to the one Biden would have fought.

Biden has endorsed his vice-president Kamala Harris and many of the party’s big beasts…

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