As President Joe Biden announced he would be ending his bid for re-election and endorsed Vice-President Kamala Harris as his successor, social media did what social media is best known to do.
Truth to be told, social media users had been enthusiastically imagining Harris’s ascension to the top of the Democratic ticket since Biden’s disastrous debate performance at the end of June. Harris dancing. Harris laughing. Endless clips of her comments about a coconut tree.
The next weeks will make clear whether Harris will be the Democrats’ 2024 nominee for president. But in the meantime, the internet picked up where it had left off.
The sports news outlet Deadspin portrayed Harris as though she were the Mets’ Edwin Diaz taking the mound to save the game.
Harris, others argued, was the “Momala” the US needs.
As #MAMALA2024 began to trend, so did Madam President. An ad from Harris’s bid for vice-president resurfaced, showing the disparities between Harris and Trump as her new political rival.
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Social media even had an answer for the question of who would be Harris’s running mate:
