“In our case, we prepared for a short list of four people internally,” Ms. Lowenstein said of the 2016 Clinton effort. “We had this concrete list of things, because the public isn’t going to absorb 20 facts about this guy,” she said. “How can fast are you going to get that to be a donate page for the campaign; how fast can you get them branded assets?” Ms. Lowenstein said. And often these vice-presidential candidates have really small teams — they don’t have a huge digital army that can switch a website and domain in five minutes. You have to get on the phone with people and get them to hand you keys really quickly.”Within minutes of today’s announcement, kamalaharris.com redirected to joebiden.com.

Source: New York Times August 12, 2020 00:43 UTC