Electoralism/Democratism

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, 8 Weeks Before Election Day

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The two major candidates for president could not be more different. So it is fitting that New York‘s election issue is helmed by two profiles that are miles apart in tone, substance, and theme but create a single snapshot of the race’s last legs. Rebecca Traister’s big-picture look at the first exuberant weeks of Kamala Harris’s campaign lays out an alternative history of the last eight years, spotlighting the role that millions of women have played in trying to avenge Hillary Clinton’s defeat and ensuring that Harris would prevail as Joe Biden’s successor. Olivia Nuzzi’s portrait of Donald Trump, in contrast, is up close and intimate, beginning with an examination of the state of Trump’s bullet-grazed ear at his home in Mar-a-Lago — a metaphor, perhaps, for the way even the most extreme of external events barely seem to touch him. One candidate is a willing vessel for the hopes and dreams of half the country; the other a vessel in which there’s only room for himself.

—Ryu Spaeth, features editor, New York

The People for Kamala Harris How a women-led movement, born in the devastation of 2016, put Democrats on the brink of making history.

The Afterlife of Donald Trump At home at Mar-a-Lago, the presidential hopeful contemplates miracles, his campaign, and his formidable new opponent.

Photos: Mark Peterson/Redux (Harris); Julia Nikhinson/AP Photo (Trump)
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