Vice President Kamala Harris is on the verge of announcing
a running mate for her presidential campaign.
That's right, she held a number of final interviews over
the weekend.
Douglas Zader has the latest from Washington.
Douglas, final interviews. How much,
you know, traditionally do they matter?
Well, it's kind of surprising that all this kind of
came down to the the last minute,
I suppose, if they haven't already,
hadn't already decided. But this there was apparently a a
a last round of in person interviews before the vice
president makes her final pick.
Every vehicle coming and going at the vice
president's Washington home got extra scrutiny from the media over
the weekend.
Was it AVP contender? We know from a number of
reports that at least a handful of them from the
shortlist were there for in person sit downs with Kamala
Harris. They all have pluses and minuses to them.
I think, you know, obviously Shapiro brings Pennsylvania,
Mark Kelly's in Arizona, Secretary Pete has ties to Michigan.
Like, they all have something special that to the map.
And while Harris, his own nomination for the top spot
has been relatively drama free,
the VP selection process is already drawing long knives on
the left.
I mean, obviously there's this candidates we think are better
for labour.
The UAW president Sean Fain made it clear he's not
crazy about Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro or Arizona Senator Mark
Kelly,
two top contenders, but those two could help deliver swing
states.
No doubt a key consideration for Harris.
She is considered more left wing than crazy Bernie Sanders.
Look at her. Republican nominee Donald Trump appearing at a
rally in Atlanta on Saturday went after Harris,
who may face more pressure now to do a sit
down interview about her positions.
Harris is about the future and what she's going to
do.
But at that same time,
we need to know where she stands on a lot
of these issues.
And she's got to do a media interview soon because
voters deserve to know that.
Well, she, she may not do an interview in the
immediate offing,
but we're going to see a lot of her and
this new running mate.
They're going to tour 7 swing states together over just
the next few days.
Brooke and Bob looking at the calendar dug and we're
just like
91 days until the election and the Democrats are really
still riding this this high,
right? And, and they've got the,
the DNC coming up. There's all this news in the
headlines about the vice president pick and a lot of
excitement over that.
And eventually, after the DNC,
the the convention, perhaps the vice president will have to
do a sit down interview and,
you know, and, and answer some more tough questions,
right? Or, or they may just try to kind of,
you know, play, play the clock out here.
It's difficult to say. I mean,
they are trying to kind of ride moment to moment
here to try to get a big bounce from this
selection today through the
swing state tour over the next few days and then
get another bounce when they get to the convention
later this month in in Chicago and then kind of
ride that high to Election Day.
That's no doubt what the plan is here.
We'll see. We'll see how this goes.
I mean, there have been so many surprises along the
way through these campaigns.
We're going to have to wait and see.
So many surprises, so much uncertainty because thinking about how
close we are to Election Day,
we still don't have, you know,
specific confirmation or details on whether the two people
actually running now are going to debate.
Right, Right. That's still a question.
And and right now there is no debate.
I mean, there had there had been one set between
Biden and Trump
on ABC. Trump says he doesn't want to do that
anymore.
There had been a debate offered from Fox.
Harris has not responded to
to that invitation. So right now,
even though both sides have said that they they are
willing to debate,
they have not worked out the details on this.
All right, Yep. We shall see.
Douglas Zader live for us in Washington.
We appreciate it, Doug. Thank you.
Yeah.