Column: How Arnold Schwarzenegger and the California recall inform the Harris-Trump race

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No one, as Donald Trump might say, has ever seen anything like it.A presidential contest lasting just over 100 days — less time than it takes to complete a Major League Baseball season, or to gain fluency in a second language.The brevity is, of course, a function of Joe Biden’s catatonic debate performance, ensuing Democratic panic and the president’s overnight replacement in the shank of summer by his vice presidential understudy, Kamala Harris.Since then, every day has seemed like a week in normal campaign time. Every week has been like a whole month.And yet while the snap election is unprecedented, there is a rough analog.Just about 20 years ago, Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger unexpectedly sprang forth on late-night television and launched his candidacy for California governor as part of a madcap vote on whether to oust Democrat Gray Davis. Schwarzenegger’s campaign lasted barely two months and ended with the Hollywood super-duper-star elbowing aside the beleaguered…

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