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As J. D. Vance faces a bumpy public reception on the Trump ticket and Kamala Harris considers her options for a running mate, the New Yorker staff writers Amy Davidson Sorkin and Benjamin Wallace-Wells join Tyler Foggatt to discuss all things Vice-Presidential. In a race as short and tight as this one, what is each campaign communicating with its choice?

This week’s reading:

“Who Should Kamala Harris Pick as Her Running Mate?” by Amy Davidson Sorkin
“J. D. Vance’s Sad, Strange Politics of Family,” by Jessica Winter
“J. D. Vance’s Radical Religion,” by Paul Elie

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J. D. Vance’s Rough Rollout and Kamala Harris’s Veepstakes

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