It's Friday, July 31st. I'm Akila Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Ressick and this is what today where we are congratulating you on making it through another month.

Yeah, and if you have a calendar, I'm really congratulating you because I haven't turned mine since March.

Yeah, I have forgotten how to measure time in and of its own.

You're doing it big.

Today's show is a little bit different rather than our normal format.

We're going to run a conversation we had earlier this week with our fellow Kirk and media hosts,

Alissa Mastramanico, about the vice presidential selection process.

So Alissa helps run that process for President Barack Obama when he picked Joe Biden as his running

mate as well as John Kerry's VP search back in 2004.

She's got a new bonus series all about what goes into making the decision called,

that's the ticket with Dan Fyfer is on the pod save America feed.

So definitely check that out if you haven't already.

But we're starting to get close to the announcement which the Biden campaign has said they could make

any day now, though it could take longer.

Yeah, and this year's VP pick is a little bit different from the past cycles with Biden saying

that he's definitely going to select a woman.

His pick would be the third woman ever to make the ticket as a VP for a major party in the US,

the others being Sarah Palin and Geraldine Ferraro.

According to the New York Times, Biden's search committee is vetting 13 women,

including Senators Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth,

as well as representatives Karen Bass and Val Demings.

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