Honestly, I hadn’t really had much hope of Harris as the nominee, I haven’t really cared for her performance as VP for the past 4 years, but I think the one major benefit of her entering the race now, is that it draws a much clearer distinction between Republicans and Democrats for more casual voters. It’s no longer just two old white guys going against each other (“I can’t tell the difference between them”). For most low-level casual voters , that’s all they’re probably paying attention to, the optics, if they haven’t already made a decision at this point, it’s because they haven’t been paying attention to policy and/or because they’re bored listening to old, white politicians talk.

Having Harris in the race though, really draws more contrast between the two candidates in terms of age, race, and gender, it becomes more about which of these two should represent America, and I think may actually work more in Democrats’ favor, but it’s still early on and it’s too early to tell how it plays out.