John Heilemann Says Team Kamala Harris Has To Do 3 Things For A Path to Victory

think there's there's three thing they have three weeks before the convention starts uh and if you include the convention week which is key to introducing or reintroducing uh con Harris to the to the American people you have four weeks um a million things to do um you're starting a you're not luckily for them they're not starting from a standing start they're inheriting most of this Biden operation there's some changes going on up at the top of it naturally but they have three big things to do first thing is they have to do something Donald Trump manifestly fail to do which is the nail the VP selection that's one that's a huge thing the second thing that they another thing they have to do is they have to get on the air as we were just talking about figuring out how they're going to try to in in paid media how they're in the Battleground States how they're going to try to Define uh the candidate and especially defend against some of the uh incoming that Republicans are going to have but the third thing is your is your point jonath which is they have to re they have to reset the map and there's no there no doubt that uh because of on the basis of what we just know from public data that the surge in enthusiasm for her with uh non-white voters particularly African-Americans and with young voters open suggests that she would be in a better position to compete in some of these Sunbelt States whether it's North Carolina uh Georgia and Arizona and Nevada all of them uh could could be more be more competitive for her than they were for Joe Biden it's also the case that Biden's one remaining strength was with older white voters and part of the reason why the blue wall looked like a good path for him maybe the only path was that he had this unusual degree of strength with seniors uh and white seniors in the midwest uh she may be less competitive in Pennsylvania uh which wiconsin Wisconsin and Michigan than than Joe Biden was so there's a there's a ton of research that uh Team K needs to get done uh in this period and they've not you know she is for all she's been vice president this entire time the the amount of research that a presidential campaign does on its on its vice president uh an incumbent president almost none they have some they have some idea but compared to what you do for someone at the top of the ticket where you know exactly how they're perceived by every important slice of the demographic part of the of the electorate that is not does not exist and they are racing out there right now to try to figure out what are her strengths what are her weaknesses what can be built on what has to be defended against huge amount of stuff to do in a very very very short time