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and the Bradley Foundation. So what's up today? Well, we've got to talk about the vice presidential

pick Senator Kamala Harris lots to dive into there. We'll do a little on the DNI report on

foreign election meddling from China, Iran and Russia, of course, the Bella Russian election.

And we'll end with a little college sports.

Let's dive in first topic. No surprise. Steve, lead us off.

Yes, so the big news is Kamala Harris as Joe Biden's running mate as we wrote in the morning

dispatch on Wednesday morning. This was one time where the conventional wisdom was actually right.

Talk to people in Washington DC, talk to Democratic insiders. They all thought that despite

some early skirmishes between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris when she was candidate for president,

that she would likely emerge as his running mate, somebody who made too much sense given her

experience as a prosecutor, her experience in law enforcement in California, her ability to be

elected, the fact that she had been scrutinized at a national level, the fact that she is black,

the fact that she's a woman, which was one of the things that Biden said early, was going to

define his pick. The Kamala Harris was really somebody who was kind of the obvious pick in retrospect,

looking back. I guess I would start the conversation by just pointing out some of the coverage.

I think the coverage has been very, very interesting. Bortering on celebratory by most of the

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