Editorial: Le Monde

• The party conventions of the two main American parties prior to the presidential elections are a big tradition.
• Vice-President Kamala Harris has reinvigorated the Democratic campaign.
• Joe Biden, succumbing to pressure from worried democratic leaders over his age, decided to pull out of the race.
• Where Donald Trump was wounded in an attack a week earlier, Biden's retirement news erased any attention it could have received.
• Kamala Harris has transformed into an energetic and charismatic candidate.
• The choice of Midwesterner Tim Walz as her running mate has been well received.
• Harris has laid out her presidential mandate vision with an economic program aimed at improving the purchasing power of the middle class and the federal government's role in that effort.
• Despite the Democratic uptick, the electoral battle is far from over.

Conclusion: Kamala Harris and her party have managed to restore hope, dynamics and rationality at the center of the democratic debate in the United States, proffering a strong alternative to the disastrous likelihood of a second Trump term.

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