My thoughts on the annointing. Not necessarily spot on or complete.
Before Joe's debate, they were looking for a way to get rid of Harris. She was polling lower than whale shit. She is still polling below where Biden and Clinton were at this point.
Joe didn't perform. They needed him gone. In order to seize his war chest and primary votes, they needed Harris who was running on the same ticket. They shot themselves in the foot backing Biden, even though they knew he was demented. The whole situation was due to a massive misread by the democrat power brokers.
There wasn't time to run a full primary with real candidates. And manage those candidate to see who could be controlled. Harris was a known quantity. They knew if they backed her she would be their puppet.
All of a sudden she was their darling. She had no numbers, no money, no support of any kind, except what Joe had already. The party was treating her as a pariah. Overnight, she became their darling.
Now they need to figure out how to make her palpable to the masses. Money is not the problem, the script by the DNC isn't the problem. The problem is Harris. She is devoid of detail, flip flops and people don't trust her. She is still an unknown quantity.
Some may disagree and they may be right. However, the only poll that matters is Nov 5. All discussion, arguments and crystal ball gazing is just an acedemic exercise. I am personally exhausted with the back and forth and don't want to continue. Maybe I'll post an interesting article or two, but don't want to waste time discussing an election that I can do nothing about.
I wish we could spend as much time on our own election and politics as we do discussing the US.