Dianne Schwartz, an 80-year-old Chicagoan who listens to political podcasts while she exercises, felt something today. “I realized today, while I was listening to my podcasts, that I spent the last few days without worrying and being depressed,” Schwartz told me. But since President Biden bowed out of his tepid re-election campaign on Sunday, and his party instantaneously coalesced behind Vice President Kamala Harris, Schwartz has found herself feeling strangely, impossibly good about politics. “I haven’t been this excited about an election,” Schwartz said, “since Kennedy.”Call it the Kamala Harris vibe shift. A presidential race that felt to many Democrats like a dispiriting slog toward an all-but-certain defeat by Trump suddenly feels lighter.

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