The crowds are psyched.
FILE - Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks at a Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority gathering in Houston, July 31, 2024, in Houston. is headed into a crucial week that includes her most critical decision yet — choosing a running mate — while grappling with how to keep that early political momentum alive.Harris, a former prosecutor known for being deliberative, effectively has a deadline of Tuesday to select who will be her No.
She has not faced the level of scrutiny that presidential candidates typically face. While she has kept up a busy schedule of public appearances, she has rarely taken questions from the press and has not sat for an in-depth interview. After four years advocating for Biden’s positions, she’ll have to stake out positions of her own on the political controversies that divide Democrats.
Meanwhile, her prosecutorial background is emerging as a central dividing line with Trump. In rallies and ads, she contrasts her record going after hardened criminals and corporate wrongdoers against Trump’s indictments, convictions and civil judgments. “We are the underdogs in this race,” the campaign’s battleground states director, Dan Kanninen, told reporters this past week, repeating a phrase that Harris herself has stressed. “But the groundswell of support around the vice president is real, and it’s meaningful. Our task now is to translate that enthusiasm into action.”
Harris has revealed little about her deliberations, but she will undoubtedly lean on her own experience of being vetted and eventually chosen as Biden’s running mate four years ago. Various Democratic constituencies are fervently lobbying in favor of — or in some cases, against — some of the names on the vice presidential shortlist, based on geographic considerations, past policy stances and voter sentiment.
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