“Watching VP Harris deliver her acceptance speech…eschewing the white pantsuit & the talk of glass ceilings & the announcements of firsts, she was able to simply say the powerful words that mattered. It was like watching a thing that has always been, or, better, could have always been. It was almost ordinary, like watching a woman perform thoracic surgery, or change a tire, or drive a car.”

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Kamala Harris Finally Showed What It Looks Like to Be a Candidate, Not a First

The vice president was actually first and foremost a lawyer.

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