Kamala Harris will soon hit the road with her running mate, but in the meantime she seems to be enjoying taking the fight directly to Donald Trump, who just this week questioned her racial identity.

I didn't know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black

and now she wants to be known as black.

So I don't know, is she Indian or is she black?

If you've got something to say it to my face.

Trump's Biden playbook is no longer operative and he's struggling to find a way to stop Harris's momentum.

Next.

This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.

Good evening and welcome to Washington week. So first of all

congratulations America you survived July. You remember July right? Joe Biden

announced he wouldn't run again. A woman of color became the nominee of a major party.

Someone tried and failed to kill Donald Trump.

Trump picked JD Vance to be his running mate.

And meanwhile, Joe Biden, who was written off as a political force,

somehow managed one of the most complicated prisoner swaps

in history, the result of which is that our Wall Street

Journal colleague Evan Gerschkovic is now free.

Joining me tonight to discuss all of this and more.

Ann Applebaum is my colleague and a staff writer at The Atlantic.

She's also the author of the new bestseller,

Autocracy Inc. the dictators who want to run the world.

Elizabeth Bue Miller is the Washington Bureau chief for the New York Times.

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