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GOP and Trump’s Opportunities, Obstacles After Biden’s Decision to Drop Out

“They’ll tie her to – as they are already doing – the Biden agenda, and then they can just paint her with the same brush they’re painting Biden with,” says Barbara Perry, a presidential studies professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.

Barbara Perry

"Illegitimate nominee": Experts say GOP's attacks on Kamala Harris echo ugly claims about Obama

"There had been concerns initially that there might be the equivalent of a very short Democratic primary, and there were concerns that, because she didn't do well in the primary in 2020, that this could lead to a problem to her this turn around," said Jennifer Lawless, the University of Virginia's political science department chair. "But that's no longer the case. She now faces an electoral landscape that is pretty much the same as whatever electoral landscape Joe Biden was going to face."

Jennifer Lawless

William J. Antholis: The US election is far from decided

"The race is far from decided. After a very tumultuous month — which included major controversial Supreme Court rulings and an assassination attempt on President Trump — the race may be once again too-close-to-call."

William Antholis

Biden Returns to a Vastly Different Presidency With Six Months to Go

“Think how disappointed President Biden must be,” said Barbara A. Perry, the co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. He was forced “to drop out of a race he relished against his nemesis, seeing and feeling himself aging out of the profession to which he has dedicated his entire adult life, and knowing that whatever little power he had left in his term he has now utterly sacrificed by withdrawing from the 2024 contest.”

Barbara Perry

Kamala Harris could become the first female president after years of breaking barriers

Professor Barbara Perry, with the University of Virginia's Miller Center for Presidential Studies, told the Associated Press that the barriers Harris broke once being selected as Biden's running mate, could continue to fall. "Just as she broke barriers to become the first woman of color to serve as vice president," Perry said, "she would bring those characteristics to the top of the ticket of a major party, one of the two major parties."

Barbara Perry

Vice President Harris hits the campaign trail

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris lauded President Joe Biden for his service to the country in her first public appearance on Monday since he dropped out of the race. We take a look at why 2024 in the U.S. is so much like 1968, speaking with Barbara A. Perry, a professor in presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.

Barbara Perry