00:00With less than a year to go for the US presidential election, the Biden campaign is facing a series
00:09of challenges. There is the question of the president's popularity, which isn't so
00:13great right now. Many polls, in fact, even showed Donald Trump going ahead of him if
00:18the election were to be held today. And then there is the issue of his running mate, Vice
00:23President Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris's story is quite interesting. When she first
00:28became vice president, there was a lot of positive buzz around her, a lot of positive
00:31media commentary, because she was the first woman vice president, the first African-American
00:36and the first woman of South Asian descent to hold this position. But it became very
00:42apparent very quickly that she may not have been the best person for the job. There's
00:46been so much criticism of her within the Democratic Party itself that there are reports that the
00:50Biden campaign has asked Democrats not to criticize her publicly because it's hurting
00:56their prospects for 2024. The Republicans, though, are already taking potshots. They've
01:02already been attacking Mr. Biden for his economic record, for his age, which is a huge factor
01:08that's playing on the minds of voters. And they're also telling people that, well, in
01:13case he's not able to finish the job, then you stare at the prospect of Kamala Harris
01:17as president. She's frankly not been able to convince American voters at the moment
01:22that she's ready to take on the top job. Much of this criticism, of course, has to
01:27do with misogyny. It has to do with racism. But at the end of the day, if it is a closely
01:33fought election, all of these are factors that will be important.
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