Warning: This episode contains strong language. Although Vice President Kamala Harris has officially been a presidential candidate for only about a week, the race to become her running mate is well underway. Lisa Lerer, a national political correspondent for The New York Times, takes us inside the selection process. Guest: Lisa Lerer, a national political correspondent for The New York Times.
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New York Times, I'm Michael Balboro.
This is the daily today what Vice President Kamala Harris is looking for in a running mate and the challenge of making that choice in record time.
My colleague, national political correspondent Lisa Lairde, takes us inside the selection process.
It's Tuesday, July 30.
So, Lisa, we turn to you to give us as much insight as possible into a pretty unusual situation, which is the search for a running mate by Kamala Harris, a presidential nominee who up until a week ago was herself the running mate.
So she was the thing that she now needs to go out and to find.
That's exactly right.
Harris is trying to replace herself, in a way on the ticket.
And this is so, so unusual.
I mean, not only is it unusual to have a woman who is vice president picking her own vice president, but the timeline is just extraordinarily short.
The campaign has said that she's likely to make this decision by August 7.
So that's about, what, ten days from today or so in total.
I think this will be about a two, three week process, and that's just incredibly short to make what's likely to be arguably one of the most consequential decisions of her candidacy and should she win her presidency.
Right.
And we should say, I mean, you and I know this, we've covered many presidential campaigns and vice presidential searches.