What Motivates Kamala Harris?

From The Political Scene | The New Yorker The New Yorker

The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss the final stretch of Kamala Harris’s Presidential campaign, including a recent media blitz on podcasts and television shows. The Vice-President has never been entirely comfortable with the interview format. “She doesn’t ruminate and reflect,” the staff writer Evan Osnos says. “I think it’s the self-protection that comes with being aware of people who are always going to doubt her capacity to make history.” Osnos’s deeply reported profile of Vice-President Kamala Harris, “ Kamala Harris's Hundred-Day Campaign ,” has just been published. Plus, the panel deconstructs the revelations in Bob Woodward’s new book, “ War ,” about Donald Trump’s relationship with the Russian President Vladimir Putin. This episode was updated after the publication of Osnos’s piece on the Harris campaign. This week’s reading: “ The Harris-Trump Endgame Is On: Is It Time to Panic Yet? ,” by Susan B. Glasser “ How Podcasts Are Transforming the Presidential Election ,” by Brady Brickner-Wood “ “The Apprentice,” Reviewed: The Immoral Makings of Donald Trump ,” by Richard Brody “ Has the Presidential Election Become a Game of Random Chance? ,” by Jay Caspian Kang “ J. D. Vance and the Success Stories of Bidenomics ,” by John Cassidy To discover more podcasts from The New Yorker , visit newyorker.com/podcasts. To send in feedback on this episode, write to [email protected] with “The Political Scene” in the subject line. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices