So, it's been a week, a week.

So, it's been a week.

On a scale of 1 to 10, would you say that it was like 10 being the most exciting one being the most boring how would you rank

This past week compared to the the other weeks that we've been having in this campaign season

Well compared to the month of July, it was like a zero. This of course is Molly Ball, the Wall Street Journal's senior political correspondent.

I called her up this morning to talk about the state of the presidential race.

I would say it was on the grand scheme of things, a solid five, right?

Like, nice normal campaign week where I think we learned a lot about

the candidates and sort of what you would expect for August of an election year.

We ended our conversation last week talking about how the race was now on to define

Kamala Harris. The Republicans were going to try to do it, the Democrats were going to try to do it.

How would you say that's going for each candidate?

Well, I think on the Republicans part,

it's not going great, just because their message

has been a little muddled.

And on the Democratic side, I think

it's still a work in progress in the sense that

Kamala Harris clearly has a lot of momentum in this race, but I don't think we still have a good sense of

who she is and what she would do as a presidential candidate and what

her vision for the future is.

Welcome to the Journal, our show about money, business, and power. I'm Ryan Knutzen. It's Friday, August 2nd.

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