First Read: “Joe Biden’s pick of Kamala Harris to be his vice presidential nominee yesterday made history — and it was also widely viewed in the political world as the likeliest choice. Which is why it’s so surprising that Republicans seemed so unprepared with a strategy to define her.”
“The GOP’s messaging on Harris was mixed from the start. Is she a finger-in-the-wind pol or a hardened leftist? Power-hungry or just a ‘puppet’ of radicals? ‘In lockstep’ with Biden or causing a ‘liberal revolt’ from disappointed progressives?”
“Is she actually ‘against everything that Black Americans are screaming about today’ because of her record as a prosecutor? Or is she soft on crime and ‘marching in the streets with the BLM organization’?”
“Republicans have been struggling for months to settle on one coherent argument against Biden. And despite having months to prepare for an argument against his veep, the same muddle is happening with Harris.”