The nomination of Senator Kamala Harris as Vice-President is expected to be a game changer favouring the Democrat Party in the November US Presidential elections. The New Yorker said that the nomination of the first African-American woman and the first person of Asian descent gave a new “meaning to the Biden campaign” with “thematic clarity” which was not there earlier. It said that the 77-year-old Biden had been saying throughout his campaign that he was just a “transitional” figure—a generational bridge: “Now we know a bit more about who may come next.”