A Word: Kamala Harris: Veep to Victory?

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🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The weeks of Democratic hand-wringing ended suddenly on Sunday after President Joe Biden stepped out of the White House race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. Her young campaign has energized Democrats. But Harris has befuddled Republicans who don’t know how to attack her, and a media that doesn’t know how to define her. On today’s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson discusses Harris’s record and her prospects with political analyst Niambi Carter, a professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy. Guest: Niambi Carter, political analyst and author of American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship. Podcast production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola Want more A Word? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/awordplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a word, a podcast from Slate.
0:02.0	I'm your host, Jason Johnson.
0:03.5	Vice President Kamil Harris is the presumptive Democratic nominee
0:07.0	after President Joe Biden stepped out of the presidential race.
0:11.0	And just days into her campaign, Harris has energized Democrats,
0:14.4	befuddled Republicans who don't know how to attack her, and the press is
0:18.2	figuring out how to define her. What does she have to do to keep the good
0:21.7	momentum going?
0:22.8	Or is three months not enough time to chart her own way?
0:25.8	She cannot have a bad night.
0:28.2	I don't think she can afford a bad night with such a short window of time.
0:32.1	She has not had a year to get us all excited.
0:35.6	The Path Ahead for Kamala Harris coming up on a word with me Jason Johnson.
0:39.7	Stay with us.
0:46.7	Welcome to a word of podcast about race and politics and everything else. I'm your host, Jason Johnson.
0:48.9	And race is once again at the forefront of America's political conversation.
0:53.3	Vice President Kamala Harris is set to become her party's official nominee for the White House.
0:59.2	This after President Joe Biden's failed debate against Donald Trump in June, sent the political class and many
1:05.1	Democratic donors into a tail spin of doubt and recrimination.
1:09.8	He finally ended the speculation about his political future on Sunday, stepping aside and
1:14.4	passing the torch to Harris.
1:16.5	She started her campaign by raising a record $81 million in her first 24 hours and targeting
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