Throughout the 2024 campaign, after Democrats booted President Joe Biden from the race and installed Kamala Harris, it was very clear that the enthusiasm and momentum surrounding her campaign was a fabricated media narrative and nothing more.
From the moment she entered the race -- having received precisely zero primary votes -- she was in a dead heat with Donald Trump in the polls. Polls that often heavily oversampled Democrats, by the way. In August 2024, Newsweek insisted Kamala's poll numbers were only growing and the sky was the limit.