“She’s going to be the defining story of this campaign,” Fineman said of Harris. “And Joe Biden’s inference will be the second defining story because he’s the guy who played in the band with Barack Obama, and he’s the guy who then turned around and picked a woman of color to be his helpmate.”
“We go through periods of division and unity,” he said. “We’re headed into a period of unity that I think Joe and Kamala have a chance to achieve.”
HOWARD FINEMAN: Let me talk briefly about Joe Biden. I was teaching for the last few years at the University of Pennsylvania, which Joe has a relationship with, and I was teaching a journalism seminar and I invited him into my class with about 25 students and he just blew the doors off the thing.
And these kids responded to him and to his force of intellect and passion in a way that surprised me. And he said at the end to them as he was on his way out the door, he said, look, you 25 kids, you are at an Ivy League school, but don’t think you can isolate yourself from the changes in America and your responsibility to deal with it. You can’t build a wall high enough. You can’t make enough money. You can’t do anything to avoid your responsibility to embrace America.
And I think by picking Kamala Harris, he showed that. She’s dynamite. She’s going to be the defining story of this campaign. And Joe Biden’s inference will be the second defining story because he’s the guy who played in the band with Barack Obama, and he’s the guy who then turned around and picked a woman of color to be his helpmate.
It’s a story of America today. It’s the story of America of the future. And if you think the suburban women of America are going to reject that, I think you’re totally wrong. We go through periods of division and unity. We’re headed into a period of unity that I think Joe and Kamala have a chance to achieve.
