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The DNC Was a Party. Now For the Morning After. | The New Republic

What are vibes? 

Coming off the DNC, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are enjoying, according to New York Magazine, a “vibes-based bubble.” 

One thing we know about bubbles is they pop. One thing we know about vibes is they’re nothing. 

“Our numbers are much less rosy than what you’re seeing in the public,” Chauncey McLean, president of Future Forward, the super PAC behind Harris, said at the DNC. 

Like “rosiness,” maybe vibes are just a trick of the light. 

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