“I had beaten Biden and now…” –

“It’s unfair that I beat Joe Biden and now they have to beat her too.” These are the words Donald Trump vented in recent days to a friend, expressing clear nervousness and concern over Kamala Harris’s entry into the race, which, in a few weeks, has turned a game he and the Republicans considered over and won. Less than a month ago, Trump, who survived the attempted assassination on July 13, had obtained the party’s solid and enthusiastic support at the Republican convention, had crippled many of the legal proceedings against him, and was flying in the polls in front of the increasingly weak and struggling Biden.

“At the convention, the game was over, and the Democrats realized this,” Richard Porter, a member of the Republican committee, told the Washington Post, who later admitted, commenting on the background: “It seemed too good to be true, and in fact it was, it’s incredible how quickly they rallied around the new candidate.” And if a few weeks ago Trump judged the possible candidacy of the vice president “pathetic,” since July 21 – the date of Biden’s withdrawal – he has seen his advantage shrink, and now the race for the White House has effectively become a neck-and-neck race.