As of the time when this column is written, Vice President Kamala Harris has not yet indicated her choice of running mate.
If we have learned one thing from former President Trump’s decision and subsequent announcement of Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio as his pick, it is that the best way a presumptive presidential nominee can keep the identity of a running mate secret is to wait until the last minute before making the decision. Simply put, if the decision hasn’t been made, it can’t leak out.
A common thread in talking with and listening to Democrats in recent days is that some seem hesitant to accept that they are in fact behind in the hunt even after everything looked so bleak following President Biden’s disastrous June 27 debate and then the assassination attempt against Trump. The reality is that Democrats had not digested or appreciated how bad things were for Biden prior to that debate—they just acknowledged it after the president’s private struggles became painfully public.
The juxtaposition of that sequence of events and Harris’s newfound strength in the
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