Melting Joe Biden: Why Do Silicon Valley Megadonors Support the Vice President’s Candidate, Senator Mike Biden?

Today on the WIRED Politics Lab, we discuss how Democratic megadonors in Silicon Valley are showing their support for Vice President Harris now that Joe Biden has dropped out of the race. A number of posts calling Biden’s exit a “coup” have exploded online.

There are people who are called Mallory McMorrow. I have never felt anything like this in the last few days. I have teachers texting and calling me from out of state who have never donated to a political candidate asking how to do it the right way to ensure it gets to the Harris campaign. Thousands of new volunteers have signed up. All of the content was produced organically. The memes! It feels very “hopey changey.” I watched as Harris spoke to the staff at his campaign headquarters and walked away inspired. We’re going to win.

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Frank Bruni, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted an online conversation on Tuesday with a Democratic state Senator from Michigan and a Democratic strategist from the newsletter “Hopium Chronicles” to discuss the extraordinary events in American politics.

Frank Bruni: Thank you for joining me on what will, no exaggeration, go down as one of the most fascinating, disorienting, consequential months in American political history. I am not sure when I will wake and realize that it was a dream, the debate, the attempted assassination, the quicksilver rise of Vice President Kamala Harris. I feel at least slightly more hopeful than a week ago that Donald Trump may be stopped on Nov. 5, but dear God am I nervous. Indicate the magnitude of your optimism or your fear for me.

Simon is very excited about what will happen at our party. The transition from Biden to Harris has been remarkably seamless and successful. Her initial remarks were strong and powerful, and she did not crib from the previous campaign. All of us are now very optimistic about going out and winning this election.