Time Magazine's upcoming cover story chronicles the new, Obama-esque Harris as if she wasn't grown in a Democratic campaign vat

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On Monday, Charlotte Alter and Time Magazine reintroduced us to the already well-known vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris, describing the energy at her early August Pennsylvania rally as Barack Obama-reborn. A 14,000-strong “exuberant” crowd filled the stands, cheering for “more than one minute,” wearing light-up bracelets like those of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour while holding homemade signs encrusted with “glitter and glue.”

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We’re told that fundraising goals are now being “smashed,” stadiums “packed” and that TikTok has been “dominated.” Grassroots fundraising and volunteers have been “seeing an explosion” in participation. Celebrities, including pop stars and rappers such as Charli XCX, who christened Harris as “brat,” and Megan Thee Stallion, have shown up to offer support. Some labour union president called her a “badass woman.” Her Harris-Walz camo hats even “sold out within half an hour.”

More importantly, someone’s niece is happy “Genocide Joe” is gone, and digital Gen Z users in the “coconut tree” of the “K-Hive” are breathing a sigh of relief, finally free to express their true feelings about Israel.

After a “blockbuster summer of Barbie, Beyoncé and Swift,” Atler suggests that, maybe, all the “hand-wringing” about electing a woman will finally end …

The “Her Moment” cover set to accompany Alter’s piece in Time’s Aug. 26 magazine features a........

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