A whole new election for president launched Sunday, and America's two major political parties immediately zeroed in on fresh priorities.

The Democrats are prepping what will appear to be a cordial and collegial contest for the party's nomination before officially declaring Vice President Kamala Harris as President Joe Biden's replacement at their convention in Chicago next month.

The Republicans are threatening to rush to courts to ask judges, in what would be predictably anti-democratic filings, to prevent voters from supporting any candidate for president not named Donald Trump in November.

The order of things has been unprecedentedly upended with Biden'sannouncementSunday that he would no longer seek his party's nomination.

The Democratic Party's spasms of angst about the 81-year-old president's ability to handle the rigor of campaigning have been swiftly replaced with an enthusiastic kumbaya for the 59-year-old Harris at the top of the ticket. The Republican Party, which has been hammering Biden about his age for months, now has a 78-year-old former president as its nominee.

For Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute and a member of the Democratic National Committee's rules committee since 1997, this new campaign is both extraordinary and, now, predictable.

The party's convention rules committee will meet virtually on Wednesday and draft a report on how to run the show in Chicago. Kamarck........

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