The Trump campaign is obviously furious about the switch. Vance called it a sucker punch. They essentially wasted their convention on the wrong candidate. You can understand why they're mad.

But the key part that stands out to me is this: a huge amount of modern Republican campaigns are based on wearing down a Democratic politician over months and years in the right-wing echo chamber. We saw it with Clinton, Obama, Clinton, Biden, Kerry. It's a well, well worn thing. But it takes time. There are seldom knock-out punches. It's a slow osmotic process. And the critical part of it takes place at the nexus where what's happening in the right wing echo chamber bleeds into and begins to shape mainstream media reporting.

Obviously we don't know how this campaign is going to play out. Looks pretty good ten days in, but there's ten times more days coming. But regardless of how it plays out, this blitz factor - something totally new and unexpected right as the true campaign starts - is clearly wreaking havoc not only with the Trump campaign but with the whole far-flung Republican political and media apparatus.

And one of the most striking subliminal differences between the two campaigns is that the internet is full of Kamala stump photos with her smiling or laughing naturally in the moment. And I daresay you could go weeks between shots of Trump smiling, and likely find none of him actually laughing. One person is a happy warrior, blessed to be in the arena fighting the good fight. The other is a narcissistic, snarling, septuagenarian in a fight for his personal freedom from the consequences of his own convicted criminal acts certainly with more trials to follow.

His every perceived slight is a grievance, his every opponent deserves to be vanquished and conquered. But his campaign is having a fairly hard time hitting the moving target Harris currently is while riding the wave of her unprecedented emotion-packed ascension, at least for the moment. Hopefully, that moment will continue for at least the next 97 days.

I guess we'll find out whether what I'm about to mention was someone's genius-level chess move or simply the actual timeframe it took President Biden to decide to bow out, but two things mentioned in this article now appear to be sterling examples of political brilliance.

One was waiting until Trump and the GOP spent a week of free television and millions of dollars in production costs leveling specific attacks against Joe Biden - and then Biden drops out before the expected convention bump could even be quantified.

But not only does he drop out, his mixed-ethnicity female Vice President quickly coalesced the entire progressive factions behind her candidacy while energizing and activating millions to donate record amounts of money and/or volunteer for campaign and GOTV efforts.

The second big thing has yet to happen, but the campaign has to be giddy about its upcoming convention - which now is likely to far outdraw viewers compared to the RNC's way-early July confab - a week where Harris and her running mate will define both themselves and their goals for governing with brutal cross-comparisons to Insurrectionist 1 and his proudly announced anti-constitutional revenge agenda - including Project 2025 - should he regain the presidency.

Harris is already sucking up most of the oxygen in the room, and the only way Trump seems to be able to breakthrough the walls of positive Harris media coverage is by braying overtly racist and misogynistic tropes or having to answer questions as to why his VP choice is so hostile to women without children while simultaneously advocating forced birth and the legal end of women's autonomy over their own bodies and health decisions.

To say this switch has caught Trump reeling isn't hyperbolic, it's simply the reality of this moment.

Unfortunately we all know which side lost in The blitz.

Yep, the Nazis. May history repeat itself.