Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris for VP, and the Trump campaign is rightly licking its chops.

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If you don't like the government spying on you, visit ExpressVPN.com slash Ben to stay safely anonymous. So, so it has happened. Joe Biden finally picked his VP or, as I like to put it, eras apparent. You got it, you got it, got it, got it, because he is not going to live through his first term. Okay, I know we're not supposed to say that. I know we're not supposed to say that. But six and ten Americans agree with me, including some 57% of independence and 49% of Democrats. The reason that the VP pick matters this time, and I have been a long-time advocate of the notion that the VP pick does not matter nearly at all. It matters this time because everyone assumes that Joe Biden is at the very least not going to run for reelection and probably will not finish his first term. He himself has called himself a transitional candidate. He is obviously in a state of cognitive decline. It is perfectly obvious to everyone. And at this point, President Trump should simply ignore Joe Biden and go directly after Kamala Harris and say this is the next president of the United States, not Joe Biden. And Joe Biden made her the issue. See, this is a real strategic blunder by Biden.

I'm frankly amused and astonished by the number of people in the conventional political class

who have suggested that this was the safest pick. This was the pick that made the most sense.

It makes no sense at all. None. Biden's entire campaign is predicated on the assumption that

Joe Biden is basically a return to normalcy.

He is a non-threatening elderly, grandfatherly character who is not going to threaten anything about the way America was running before President Trump became president.

He's not a radical. He's not transformed him. He's just a dude. And because he's just a dude and kind of an elderly dottering dude at that, you don't have to worry about Joe Biden. You don't have to worry about chaos in the streets. You don't have to worry about the crazy tweets coming out of the White House. All you have to do is simply go about your business and Joe Biden will have your back. That was the Biden campaign in a nutshell. And so you should focus when you go into the voting booth on his opponent. She'd focus on the volatility and the kind of craziness of Donald Trump's presidency when he choose to vote.

So, when he choose to vote. So when he picked a VP, he should have underscored those strengths. What he should have done is he should have picked somebody like Amy Klobuchar. He should have picked somebody who was inherently non-threatening, somebody that the American public widely perceives to be somewhat moderate. Instead, he decided to cave to the Twitterati. And he made this mistake for a couple of reasons. First, he decided very early on that he was going to pick a woman. Well, as soon as you say that you're basically going to pick a VP based on tokenistic concerns, and let's face it, that is a tokenistic concern, whether your VP is a woman. Okay, that does not say anything about her character.

It does not say anything about her politics. Nikki Haley is a woman. The idea that this is a criteria for picking the VP is the sex to which they belong is a bizarre idea on its face. And it becomes even more bizarre when you realize that the Democratic Party platform at this point is that women don't exist. And a man can be a woman. As my friend Matt Walsh has pointed out, it's very bizarre that the media are championing first female black VP pick by a Democrat. Just incredible, incredible stuff. They don't even believe women exist. So I'm wondering what's so historic about an individual with the cervix, as the media might put it, being selected as the VP candidate. They literally say there are no differences between men and women to the point where a man can be a woman, but it's very historic that Kamala Harris is, in fact, a woman. In any case, Joe Biden early on signaled he was going to pick a woman. Well, this boxed him in. But it didn't box him in that much because there were still a bevy of qualified women who are out there. Then,

because he had already caved to, okay, I have to pick somebody who is representative of a particular

demographic population in the United States, then he was pushed into, okay, it has to be a black

woman. It has to be a woman of color. Okay, so he sort of futzed between black woman and woman

of color. And finally, he settled on Kamala Harris. And she was probably the worst available pick. There are some other people who are up for this thing. Val Demings in Florida, largely anonymous, but at least not disliked by the American public. He had Karen Bass in California, who's kind of a communist, but again, not very well known, and at least had significant support in the black community as the longtime head of the congressional

black caucus. And then you had Kamala Harris, a woman so deeply unpopular that she dropped

out of the presidential race before her voters in California even had a chance to vote on her.

She was registering at 7% in the California primaries.

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