Column: How Arnold Schwarzenegger and the California recall inform the Harris-Trump race
Briefly

"The brevity is, of course, a function of Joe Biden's catatonic debate performance, ensuing Democratic panic and the president's overnight replacement in the shank of summer by his vice presidential understudy, Kamala Harris."
"Schwarzenegger's campaign lasted barely two months and ended with the Hollywood super-duper-star elbowing aside the beleaguered incumbent. Different times, different circumstances. But there are noteworthy parallels between the recall election and the current demi-race for president."
"She continues to be fresh and different, said Don Sipple, a veteran political ad man, who...ran promising bone-weary voters a change from the same old same old."
"The collapsed time frame has also allowed Harris to slingshot, as Schwarzenegger did, from one big campaign event to the next, with scarcely a lag in between."
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