Discuss damning with faint reward . . .In a dialogue in the present day of Biden’s potential ’24 run, the first purpose the Morning Joe panel might give you as to why Kamala Harris will stay on the ticket was her gender and the colour of her pores and skin.

It may be customary for political wags to surprise out loud if a GOP veep shall be switched out — see Dan Quayle in 1992, or Dick Cheney in 2004. Former Hillary Clinton marketing campaign communications director (and Chuck Todd dinner-party honoree) and MSNBC visitor commentator Jennifer Palmieri needed to put down this was NOT taking place:

I do know there’s been, in [inaudible] I noticed that there was some reporting, questioning whether or not the Vice President will proceed to be on the ticket. 

There’s zero likelihood—let me inform you folks—there’s zero likelihood that Kamala Harris is not going to be on this, that she is not going to be his working mate. There isn’t any approach they’re taking her off the ticket. Every part that she has delivered to the administration, the help she has throughout the base, like, that is the — , for now, except one thing dramatically completely different occurs, Democrats begin to step as much as run, and I see, I simply do not see a state of affairs the place that occurs, like, that is the ticket.

Be aware that whereas Palmieri made imprecise reference to what Harris “has delivered to the administration,” she was unable to supply any precise instance thereof. Her good efficiency as border czar? Uh, not a lot. Making nervous giggles nice once more? Vamping about Venn diagrams?

The one particular factor Palmieri might level to was Harris’s “help throughout the base”—that’s, she’s a black lady. For that purpose, she provides “DEI” cred to Joe.

What Palmieri solely alluded to, Jonathan Lemire made express:

To Jen’s level, the Vice President goes to be on the ticket for a lot of causes, together with, after all, that as famous, the bottom — the muse of the Democratic social gathering proper now: black ladies. They don’t seem to be going to alienate that by pushing Kamala—Vice President Harris—off as Joe Biden’s working mate.

Whereas claiming there have been “many causes” Kamala shall be saved on the ticket, Lemire, like Palmieri, was incapable of naming any, aside from the truth that she’s a black lady who appeals to “the muse of the Democratic party–black ladies.”

When a politician’s solely elements for being a heartbeat (or a brain-beat) away from the presidency is gender and pores and skin colour….that is some “affirmative motion.”

Morning Joe being incapable of pointing to any purpose Kamala Harris will stay as Joe Biden’s working mate in ’24 aside from the truth that she is a black lady was sponsored partly by Liberty Mutual and Roman.