Personality and policy: how would Kamala Harris govern?

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  The Economist. Hi, it's John Pridow here.

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  I host our weekly US politics podcast, Checks and Balance.

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  A few weeks ago, the Democratic Convention looked as if it would be awake.

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  Instead, it has been a loving.

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  Delegates' ebullience has been spiced with relief that their nominee has saved the party from almost certain defeat.

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  Kamala Harris has accomplished this less because of who she is than who she is not.

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  For a start, she is not Joe Biden,

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  who showed in a valedictory speech in Chicago that age has turned him into a scold.

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  And neither is she Donald Trump.

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  Now that President Biden is out of the race,

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  the Republican nominee is the old man on the ballot and he drives voters away with his petty insults and his dark obsessions.

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  However, Ms. Harris needs more.

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  Our forecast model has the race tied.

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  In a bid to make her someone people actually want to vote for,

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  the convention was all about her character and her life story.

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  Americans now know she worked at McDonald's and that every year she teases her husband by playing the rambling voicemail he left asking her for a first date.

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  Unfortunately,

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