Good morning,Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have all lent their full-throated support to Joe Biden’s VP pick. California senator Kamala Harris was unveiled as the former vice-president’s running mate on Tuesday. “This is a good day for our country,” tweeted Obama, after the announcement that, for the first time, a woman of color would appear on a major party’s presidential ticket. Though Biden and Harris clashed on the debate stage early in the Democratic primary process, they are said to have bonded over their mutual affection for Biden’s late son, Beau, who worked with Harris when they were serving as the attorneys general of Delaware and California respectively. Donald Trump’s campaign has so far struggled to produce a coherent critique of Harris, attacking her both as an overzealous prosecutor during her legal career, and as insufficiently tough on crime. In a choice loaded with symbolism, writes David Smith, Joe Biden may have found the “anti-Trump”, with the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother now “better placed than anyone to be America’s first female president”. Harris reflects something we may take for granted in the Trump era, argues Richard Wolffe:Through her own accomplishments, she meets the only standard relevant to a veep pick: she looks and sounds presidential because she is. In this dystopian world, Harris sails above the presidential bar that has been lowered to jackboot level by an old man who admires neo-Nazis and autocrats in equal measure.

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