Kamala Harris Is Joe Biden’s VP Pick, Despite Everything
Joe Biden’s choice of running mate Kamala Harris reveals a bleak truth: nothing the Left has done, from two Bernie Sanders campaigns to the biggest uprising in US history against police brutality, influenced his thinking at all. Big-money donors, on the other hand, did.
Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris deliver remarks on August 12, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images)
Despite everything that’s happened in American politics in recent years, the 2020 Democratic ticket is Biden-Harris. For the Jacobin podcast The Vast Majority, staffers Micah Uetricht and Meagan Day discussed their unexpected feelings of despair at this fact.
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Micah, how are you taking the news that Kamala Harris is Biden’s vice presidential pick?