This is Brian Layers Daily Politics podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Tuesday, August 6th.

I'm Kushan Navadar, a host here at WNYC filling in for Brian today.

It's been two weeks since President Biden withdrew from the 2024 election campaign

and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris.

Does it only feel like yesterday to anyone else, or actually somehow even longer?

Well, at the very least, it's long enough to get some polling results. And the good

news is good for the Democrats in that VP Harris is polling better than President Biden did,

but it's still a tie game. And today's probably the day she makes her first big decision of

the campaign, naming her running mate. To catch up with the latest, we're joined by

Nancy Cook, senior national political correspondent for Bloomberg News. Nancy, welcome.

Thanks so much for having me. Great to have you here. Let's start with Harris's imminent decision

on a VP pick. Do you expect this announcement today or did I miss anything on my walk from my desk

down to the studio? She has not picked someone yet, but we're expecting the decision today at the

latest tomorrow morning. She is supposed to be in Pennsylvania with whoever she picks tomorrow

afternoon. So she will have to make the decision by then. But, you know, as you alluded to in the

introduction, this has just been a real race to pick that person in a really compressed time frame. And so

she's really under the gun to make that decision. And it's been a very pretty, you know, quick moving process.

Yesterday, she met in person with three potential candidates for BP. There's Pennsylvania

governor Josh Shapiro, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walsh. First,

does that mean that they are the only ones still in the running?

Well, our reporting over the past week has really shown that Wals and Governor Walts and

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