Kamala Harris’s White-Boy Summer
For her running mate, the vice president could be looking to make a diversity hire.
Maybe you’ve seen the joke permeating the internet this week, as Vice President Kamala Harris begins her 100-day campaign for president. In one variation on X Sunday, someone wrote “Kamala’s VP options” above a lineup of Chablis and Chardonnay bottles on a grocery-store shelf labeled “Exciting Whites.” Another user posted a picture of Harris and a saltine cracker, with the caption: “This will be the ticket.”
The jokes are funny because they’re true: For the first time in a long while, Democrats seem fine expressing the idea that what the presidential ticket really needs is a white guy.
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Become a SubscriberHarris, a woman born to an Indian mother and a Black father, would be a history-making Democratic nominee. That’s enough diversity already, and it rules out a few top vice-presidential contenders, some in her party argue. By this logic, she’s not likely to run with another woman (sorry, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer) or another politician of color (see you in 2028, Governor Wes Moore of Maryland).
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