In a search that broadened and contracted as Biden searched for a vice presidential running mate, the focus continued to come back to Harris.
With her selection, the battle lines are now drawn between a current president who favors white supremacy and a challenger who is betting on a future with a black female running mate.
In a taped interview with Fox News Sunday, the president with a record of more than 20,000 lies in his first term, continued to lie, exaggerate and claimed successes that neither do not exist or were the work of other presidents.
Equating peaceful protests with violence and lying about what is happening in the cities is his latest pathetic gamble to recover from his failures and mistakes. It is typical Trump.
With his base shrinking and more and more Republicans rising to question his presidency and his competence, can he recapture needed momentum?
Biden has blamed Trump for inaction and denial in the face of the outbreak that he said drove the American death toll needlessly higher.
The party’s caucus crisis was an embarrassing twist after months of promoting Iowa as a chance for Democrats to find some clarity in a jumbled field.
For two decades, Iowa has had a solid record of backing the ultimate Democratic nominee. A clear victory in its caucuses next month could set the tone for the races that follow in New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.
Ironies abound at the outset of the Democratic primary.
If Iowa’s rightward swing has stalled, it could be a foreboding sign for Trump in other upper Midwestern states he carried by much smaller margins and would need to win again.