It happened in what seemed like just a handful of hours. A sudden swell of social media chatter around Vice President Kamala Harris has added to the ongoing discourse around whether President Joe Biden will end his campaign following last week’s debate. It happened, as a lot of political conversation still does, on X. “My entire feed is now Kamala pilled,” Jay Caspian Kang, a New Yorker staff writer, posted on the platform Tuesday night.
Betting markets, where people can wager real money on political outcomes, have shifted sharply in Harris’ direction in the last couple days. On PredictIt, one of the internet’s most popular betting markets, Harris overtook Biden as the person most likely to receive the Democratic presidential nomination — a shift that as recently as June 26 gave her almost no chance at all.