Harris pitches self as a unifier with a ‘to-do list’ – is it enough for knife-edge race?

Vice-president's historic campaign has aligned stars and positioned itself as an antidote to Trump's threat but contest remains deadlocked

On the second to last Sunday in July, Kamala Harris had just finished making pancakes and bacon for her grandnieces at the vice-president's residence in Washington, and was sitting down with them to work on a jigsaw puzzle when Joe Biden called.

I got up to take the call, and then life changed," Harris recounted later. Biden, isolating with Covid at his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and facing calls from all corners of his party to step aside, had reached the history-altering decision to end his bid for re-election.

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