From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is the Daily.

Today, what Vice President Kamala Harris is looking for in a running mate,

and the challenge of making that choice in record time.

My colleague National political correspondent Lisa Laird

takes us inside the selection process. It's Tuesday, July 30th. So Lisa, we turn to you to give us as much insight as possible into a pretty unusual situation,

which is the search for a running mate by Kamil Harris, a presidential

nominee who up until a week ago was herself the running maid.

So she was the thing that she now needs to go out and do fond.

That's exactly right.

Harris is trying to replace herself in a way on the ticket,

and this is so so unusual.

I mean not only is unusual to have a woman who is vice president picking her own

vice president but the timeline is just extraordinarily short.

Her campaign has said that she's likely to make this decision by August 7th.

So that's about what, 10 days from today or so.

In total, I think this will be about a two three week process and that's just

incredibly short to make what's likely to be arguably one of the most

consequential decisions of her candidacy and should she win her presidency.

Right and we should say, you and I know this, we've covered many presidential campaigns

and vice presidential searches. Traditionally, this is a process that takes months and months and months.

Oh yeah, this is a process that goes on for quite a long time, AIDS and candidates,

generally they start thinking about it during the primary

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