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Speaker 1: Media outlets around the world rolled out the predictable article

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Speaker 1: yesterday post the announcement with the headline who is Carmela Harris?

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Speaker 1: They rolled out the same article you might remember several

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Speaker 1: years ago when she got picked as VP as well.

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Speaker 1: Depending on whether those articles are applicable in America depends

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Speaker 1: a little bit on whether she can now go on

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Speaker 1: and win The VP. Of course, isn't really a thing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they say it is, but Mike Pence was

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Speaker 1: a good example before Carmala Harris that really it's a

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Speaker 1: figurehead job. Yes, your one heart beat away from the presidency,

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Speaker 1: but no one honestly expects that to mean anything except

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Speaker 1: in the Harris case. You remember, she was meant to

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Speaker 1: be something. She was meant to be the replacement when

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Speaker 1: Joe bailed either at the end of the first term

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Speaker 1: or anointed her at the start of the second. She

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Speaker 1: was the succession plan because Biden's job was to beat

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Speaker 1: Trump and then retire. The reason that never came to

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Speaker 1: pass was Harris turned out to be a dud. And

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Speaker 1: the problem with that is the job she never got

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Speaker 1: handed on merit. She now potentially gets handed by default.

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Speaker 1: So the question is can she run on a record

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Speaker 1: that isn't Biden, given she is inextricably linked to the administration,

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Speaker 1: or does she sink because of it? How much of

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Speaker 1: Biden's lack of support was because he was old and befuddled?

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Speaker 1: How much did Americans not see the good stuff in

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Speaker 1: the economy because of Biden? And maybe they can now

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Speaker 1: see it under Harris. Is Harris so much better known

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Speaker 1: than any of the other possibilities, like Newsom or Whitmer

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Speaker 1: that she has too much of an unbuilt advantage to

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Speaker 1: risk a real, unknown, very real question, even though many

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Speaker 1: would argue it shouldn't be. Is the Clinton question? Is

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Speaker 1: America ready for a female president? Did Clinton lose because

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Speaker 1: she was a woman a Clinton or because Trump was better?

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Speaker 1: These are all live questions. Upside as the big money

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Speaker 1: you're starting to flow for Harris that wasn't for Biden.

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Speaker 1: She knows how the White House works the others don't,

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Speaker 1: and she might might be able to grow the Democratic

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Speaker 1: turnout from those who would have stayed at home because

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Speaker 1: Biden was too old to take seriously. Also, none of

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Speaker 1: the others are so obviously better than her that you

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Speaker 1: can't go past them, So you can make a case

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Speaker 1: for her but make no mistake, this is now and

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Speaker 1: still is Trumps to lose. For more from the Mic

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