On the major political story shaping the week, we turn to the analysis tonight of

Kapart and Johnson. That's Jonathan Kapart, associate editor for the

Washington Post, and Eliana Johnson, editor-in-chief of the Washington Free Beacon.

David Brooks is away this evening.

Hello, hello.

Hi, Jeff.

So Kamala Harris has passed the threshold

to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination

in this virtual vote of party delegates.

This is the same day that the campaigns has it raised

310 million dollars in July.

This is the biggest hall of the 2024 cycle,

more than double what Donald Trump's campaign in the

RNC raised in the same month. But Jonathan, it was far from a guarantee that

Democrats would remain as united and as energized as they have been since VP Harris emerged atop the

ticket.

What do you make of this launch of hers and this historic fundraising hall?

Well, the launch is pretty spectacular. I remember sitting here and

saying if Joe Joe Biden needs to be the top of the ticket and if he's not the top

of the ticket and it's not Vice President Harris Democrats are going to lose and I said that

because there were people talking, there were moves of foot to leapfrog

over the sitting vice president for someone else. That did not happen and I think the way the Vice President,

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