Kamala Harris' Campaign: The Coming Storm in Florida for the 2024 Election

Hurricane Kamala: A Symbol of Change in Florida's Politics

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), hurricane season runs from June through the end of November. And although tropical storms are hard to predict months or even weeks out, this year there is one storm that will very likely engulf the entirety of Florida precisely at midnight on the morning of Nov. 5: Hurricane Kamala—a confluence of gales and squalls that are putting the Harris-Walz ticket in position to snatch the Sunshine State right from under former President Donald Trump's nose—a peripeteia of monumental proportions.

An eventual Harris victory in Florida this November, however, will not look at all like the last two times Democrats carried the state with former President Barack Obama on the ticket in 2008 and 2012. Should Harris win Florida in this go-around, it will be in large part because her campaign adroitly rode the reverse coattails of local ballot initiatives on access to abortion and the legalization of recreational marijuana as well as a hotly contested Senate race—all of which are poised to drive voter turnout in record numbers.

Shifting the Narrative: Harris vs. GOP in the Sunshine State

Hurricane Kamala aptly describes the confluence of storm systems combining this fall that will finally upend the reigning narrative that Florida is a GOP stronghold that Democrats should just write off. And with the Sunshine State's 30 electoral votes at stake, it's a weather pattern that could dictate not only the contours of the national election but shift the power dynamic in Washington for an entire generation to come.

Newsweek spoke to Democratic political strategist James Carville, the architect of Bill Clinton's historic 1992 presidential run, about his party's chances in Florida this November. His insights provide a deeper understanding of the evolving political landscape.