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The wheels of Air Force Two touched down in Georgia, and the latest Kamala Harris era began. The vice president drew a bigger crowd than President Joe Biden had gotten all year—a show of strength in the South, in a state Harris thrust back into play. This was her moment.

Harris, wearing a baby blue suit and her customary American flag pin, took the stage in Atlanta, with Megan Thee Stallion on hand. Fresh off a record, jaw-dropping fundraising week, she taunted former President Donald Trump to electric cheers, before pausing for a warning. “Let’s level-set, friends,” she said. “We are the underdogs in this race. We are.”