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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Speed of Light: Harris Poised to Announce Vice Presidential Running Mate

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

MS NOW, Jen Psaki

Politics, News, Ms Now, Versant Media, Versant

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki breaks down the final steps for Kamala Harris before she announces a running mate. Jim Messina and Claire McCaskill join Jen to discuss what the inner-workings of Harris's high-stakes decision-making process looks like. Next, Jen outlines Trump's plans to rid the Republican party of everyone who isn't sufficiently obedient amid the announcement of a new group called "Republicans for Harris," which includes over two dozen former GOP elected officials. Former Republican Rep. Joe Walsh joins the show to discuss the group's efforts to defeat Trump. Later, Sherrilyn Ifill joins the show to discuss the latest Clarence Thomas ethics scandal. Jen also shares some thoughts on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s bizarre admission that he transported a dead baby bear carcass to Central Park a decade ago. Finally, Jen is joined by Ben Wikler, the Democratic party chair of Wisconsin, to preview Harris's running mate announcement on Tuesday and discuss the state of the presidential race in Wisconsin.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay. All of the anticipation, all of the guessing, all of the speculation, all of the

0:13.6

speculation, the texting with your friends from college about who it's going to be, the white

0:18.1

board pro and conless making, I know you're all doing it about

0:21.1

who the vice presidential pick is going to be. It's about to end because Kamala Harris is expected

0:26.4

to announce her vice presidential pick tomorrow. And then the two of them will hold their first

0:31.9

rally together in Philadelphia tomorrow night. Just in the last few minutes, that event was put on

0:37.1

the White House public

0:37.9

schedule for 5.30 p.m. Eastern, so plan your evenings accordingly. That means that right now,

0:44.4

as we speak, less than 24 hours before that event, Vice President Harris is either finalizing

0:50.6

her decision on her own version of a white board, or maybe she's already made it.

0:54.6

She could be making calls, maybe breaking the news to the contenders who didn't make the cut,

0:59.1

or maybe breaking the news to the one who did. What a moment that is. That could be happening right now.

1:05.5

And I promise you, if we learn anything over the course of the next hour, not just that Josh Shapiro was playing basketball with his son.

1:12.2

If we learn, we see a puff of white smoke over Harris's house here in Washington.

1:16.0

We will tell you all about it.

1:19.1

Look, picking a running mate is a really big moment in a political campaign.

1:23.8

And over the course of the next hour, we're going to dive into and talk about all of the

1:28.4

potential picks, what is likely playing into her selection process, and how the campaign changes

1:33.2

once a running mate is announced. It's a new stage. Now, one thing you can expect immediately

1:38.2

is a five-day tour of battleground states from Harris and her VP pick. And then after that,

1:45.7

they will likely start campaigning separately. That means in a week from now, we're about to get double the campaign events,

1:50.7

double the fundraising, double the high level voices that can go after Donald Trump and J.D. Vance

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