Hello, welcome to the vast majority. I'm Jacobin Deputy Editor Micah

Utrich joined by Jackman Staff writer Megan Day. Hi Megan.

Hi, Michael. How are you taking the news that Kamla Harris is the VP pick?

I'm just I've never felt such you know it's been a real dark time over the last couple

months but it's been a real pick me up to get this news.

I know things are finally turning around they're finally turning in our favor.

Well this is actually what we here to discuss today it's just me and Megan and I wanted to talk about this because the

literal opposite of what I just said is true about my feelings about

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Kamal Harris's choices, VP.

And, you know, I don't think I need to remind anybody who listens to this podcast that Harris has a pretty bleak record, certainly from

a leftist perspective.

But maybe we should just start there because let's just do a refresher course on who this person is before we talk about her nomination and what it means.

You know, why don't you just start with what, what are some of the greatest hits of the

Kamel Harris career?

I mean, I think that it's important to begin by clarifying that

she wasn't was not a progressive prosecutor like that is the most important thing

to establish first because that's the myth that she's built for herself.

You know, the idea of a whole, the whole idea of a progressive prosecutor is something that comes out of Black Lives Matter 2014-2015.

You see like, I mean like maybe there were some more progressive prosecutors before them,

but the idea that like Larry Krasner and like Cheshire Boudin and there were going to be,

there was going to be this like movement of progressive

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