Hey there, matter of opinion, listeners, it's Ross. The matter of opinion gang is taking a break

from our regular programming this week to celebrate the 4th of July, but we didn't want to leave

you in the dark during this chaotic, fascinating,

wild moment of the presidential race as the pressure on Joe Biden to drop out heats up.

For now, Joe Biden is still in the race, but with his candidacy

very much in question, some of my colleagues and I picked who we'd like to see Run as

the Democratic nominee, and you may hear some familiar voices making their picks. I'm Lydia Polgreen, opinion columnist for the New York Times.

Like many of my colleagues, I think it's time for Joe Biden to bow out, and I believe

that the best person to replace him is Kamala Harris.

You know, Kamala Harris, she didn't make it that far in the primaries,

and that might make you think this is someone who has tried and failed to become president.

Why would she be good on the national stage?

But I think it's important to remember that running in a primary and running for the general

election are actually two very different things.

In a primary, you're essentially running against your peers, in many cases, your fellow politicians from your party, and you're arguing

with them over smaller differences than the big differences that separate are

politics in this very polarized time and where gender and race actually play a huge role in

terms of how people are perceived and where you know the showing of emotion or

anger or other feelings play very differently depending on

whether you're a woman depending on whether you're a person of color that

primary environment I think is actually quite complicated.

Those same dynamics can be at play in a general election as well,

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