By Elle Purnell | The Federalist
A lot has happened in the past two months. Donald Trump survived a bullet to the head by a would-be assassin; Joe Biden failed to survive a presidential debate. Kamala Harris has been the Democrats’ replacement candidate for such a short period of time that media are still talking about a Harris “honeymoon” — and she just got around to releasing a policy platform this week.
And yet, the first ballots are already in the mail and on their way to voters. Alabama, the first state to drop ballots in the mail, started shipping them out on Wednesday to absentee ballot applicants as well as military and overseas voters.
There are 55 days between Wednesday, the official start of election season, and Nov. 5, the date that still bears the moniker of Election Day. When ballots went out in Alabama Wednesday morning, only 52 days had passed since Biden got booted out of the race.