Tuesday was quite a celebration. Joe Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris was rejoiced on social media, while being savaged in Trump world — what did you expect? The fact that the following ad went viral speaks to Harris’ acceptance on a number of levels:

  1. She’s perceived as a force of good in her own right, not just as an accoutrement to Joe Biden;
  2. The fact that she’s a black woman is tweaking all the same buttons, and then some, that the nomination of Barack Obama tweaked;
  3. The fact that she’s on the ticket scares the hell out of a lot of people in Trump world.

Take a look.

This is very good. Biden’s being able to take the progressive wing of the party was worrisome to a lot of people, myself included. I’m sure you read Black Max’s recent piece on Nina Turner causing division. I cringed. But it appears that Kamala Harris is having a mollifying affect on progressives. That is devoutly to be wished. If there’s one election where Democrats can’t afford division in the ranks, this is it. Morever, it appears that Harris is a good choice for other reasons, namely her appeal to college-educated suburban whites, whom Trump calls “suburban housewives” and the black vote. The selection of Harris made a consequential statement to this campaign, as frequently happens. The Bulwark:

Dick Cheney was an admission that George W. Bush thought he needed grownup help.

Sarah Palin was a recognition that without shaking up the race, John McCain couldn’t beat Barack Obama.

Joe Biden was a tacit assurance to voters that Obama wasn’t a radical and could work with the establishment.

Mike Pence was a blood-oath to white evangelicals, who were not yet fully on board the Trump train.

You get the picture.

So what does Kamala Harris tell us about how the Biden campaign sees the race right now?

Her selection suggests that the campaign believes their position is very strong. They think that the progressive wing of the party is with them and did not need to be tended to. They believe the heart of their coalition in November is going to be African Americans and college-educated suburban whites, both of whom should respond well to Harris.

It also shows that this is a steady, well-managed campaign that has the discipline to not get cute and out-smart itself.

This is a very good sign. If we can have safe centrist Joe along with the firebrand future of the party, we’ve got a good mix going here. And there’s one extra added advantage: Trump won’t be able to keep his mouth shut about Harris. He’s already said she’s “nasty” and “nastier even than Pocahontas.” Forbes:

Referencing Harris’ tough questioning of Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing, Trump called her “extraordinarily nasty” and “nasty to a level that was just a horrible thing,” declaring, “I won’t forget that soon.”

Trump said the reason for his surprise is that Harris was “very very nasty to Joe Biden,” claiming she was “probably nastier even than Pocahontas” – his nickname for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

“I will take him over Kamala,” Trump said of Vice President Mike Pence, adding that Harris is the “meanest, most horrible, most disrespectful of anybody in the U.S. Senate.”

Here’s the first ad that the Trump campaign banged out Tuesday, within short hours of the announcement. They had it prepped, clearly. We’ll never see the Susan Rice ad, but I’m sure that’s a doozy as well. Feast your eyes, because this is what you’re going to be hearing for the next 83 days.

So we’ve got Harris, pretending to be a moderate, but she’s really the head of the radical left and then we’ve got Biden, who used to be a moderate, before he sold out to the radical left, and Bernie Sanders is the Godfather, along with AOC, and they’re pulling the strings for the radical left (who are people you don’t even know….because they’re in the dark with George Soros, but the geniuses who post right-wing commentary on YouTube will let you know soon enough.)

That’s the basic plot line from Trump world. There will be sub plots and surprise twists, God knows what they’ve got planned for the October surprise, but at first blush, that’s it. Conspiracy theorists, start your engines. And purveyors of mud, here’s your chance to clean up, there will be plenty of slinging. Donald Trump’s political death throes won’t be pretty, and we’ve got 83 days of them to get through.

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  2. I’m sure Kamala is just shaking in her boots over Junior’s tweet.

    Considering the fact that Junior wouldn’t be anywhere without being a daddy’s boy, at least Kamala has a record of her own on which she can stand. Who’d even know of Junior’s existence if Daddy hadn’t been put into the White House with Kremlin help? Nope. Junior would just be some anonymous cog, running some minor Trump property (further into the ground, of course, and cooking the books for investors), counting the days till Daddy croaked and doing his best to keep himself in the will (whatever crumbs there might be).

    • Welp, if the rather sickly pallor under that day-glo orange makeup/tan is an indication, never mind the very grey undereye bags/slashes are any indicator, I’d guess not much. That and far too much Diet Coke caffeine. At least if the Sean Hannity diatribe Trump engaged in last night is any demonstration of his losing it.

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  7. You know who’s REALLY nasty? Trump is. He tells lies about his opponents. He calls them names. He generally acts like a small child.

  8. I can’t believe he won’t let the “Pocahontas” thing go. What on earth does he think it accomplishes now, other than making him look bigoted and childish?

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