Hello from Washington, I'm Chuck Todd, cast. So the tickets are set and official-ish.

Vice President Harris chose Minnesota Governor Tim

Wall's to be her VP pick. My guest today is Chris Saliza. He's the author of

an excellent politics newsletter on sub-stack called So What? Obviously he is deep knowledge about

politics going back decades. Remember to stick around after our conversation

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don't forget the the I just give you a quick preview of what we're going to do look I do think

I'm give you a quick take of where I think the race is. A lot of people keep asking me, can Harris win?

I keep answering the question is, Trump can lose. And that doesn't, and that also means, obviously, if Trump Trump can lose it means Harris can win.

But how much of it is a self-destruction, how much self-destruction does she need?

Let's be realistic here until the country elects its first woman president.

There's always going to be some doubt in any of our minds,

well, is the country ready to elect the first woman president?

So I think that is something that sort of hangs over this campaign,

but it's the non-versation of this campaign.

Because I don't think any of us that cover it think that it should be an issue anymore. We've seen plenty of women get elected.

Mexico just elected a woman president. We're going to see plenty of states of

elected woman governor. So it doesn't seem to be, there doesn't seem to be that hurdle with the voters and yet until we do it I think that that's going to be something that hangs over this conversation a little bit.

As I said more like a non-versation of this campaign.

But look we're in it we're in an interesting phase.

I think we're we this is a I think it's fair to say Harris is getting her convention bump now. I don't expect to see

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