Why Pick Kamala Harris For Vice President?

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Who is Kamala Harris and why did Joe Biden select her to serve as his vice president and running mate? The NPR Politics team sits down to discuss the California senator's record, experience as a prosecutor, and how she might fit into the Biden campaign.

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- In Historic Pick, Joe Biden Taps Kamala Harris To Be His Running Mate
- Who Is Kamala Harris?

This episode: congressional correspondent Susan Davis, campaign correspondent Scott Detrow, campaign correspondent Asma Khalid, and political reporter Juana Summers.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast.
0:05.3	I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress.
0:07.0	I'm Scott Detro, I cover the presidential campaign.
0:09.0	I'm Miss McCalla, I also cover the campaign.
0:11.2	I'm Wannessammer's I cover demographics and culture.
0:13.9	And it is 4.49 pm on Tuesday, August 11th, and Joe Biden has announced his running
0:20.0	mate, California Senator Kamala Harris.
0:22.9	His pick was announced in a text to supporters.
0:26.7	I don't know guys, I'm just not that surprised here.
0:29.5	You know, I think the best way to think about this is something that a Harris ally said
0:34.8	to me a couple months ago.
0:36.9	And that was that in their view, Kamala Harris was going to be the Joe Biden of the Vice
0:41.5	presidential race, right?
0:42.5	It kind of starts surrounding this person.
0:44.8	It's probably going to be this person.
0:46.2	And then everybody picks through every single other potential.
0:49.2	And everyone else has a moment up and down and that it ends right back where it started.
0:53.3	And that's California Senator Kamala Harris.
0:55.0	Absolutely.
0:56.0	She seemed like she was the odds on favorite from the start.
0:58.4	So the fact that it's hard just feels like it was meant to be that doesn't seem like
1:02.3	there's any anybody really shocked in the world of politics today that the ticket's going
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