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I know she’s at six percent in that primary poll of New Hampshire today, but it’s early. Give her time.

By 2024 she might make it all the way to zero.

She can be forgiven here for the seemingly extraneous detail about wearing a blue suit since this was a meeting about disability. Anyone listening in whose sight is impaired could have used that visual cue to picture the scene more vividly. That’s why Harris mentioned it.

Although it’s a little insulting to assume anyone, blind or otherwise, wouldn’t have something better to do in the middle of the day than watch Kamala Harris talk policy on YouTube.

What’s up with the pronouns, though? Are we also assuming that the average blind listener wouldn’t be able to piece together that Harris is female, never mind the tons of media coverage last year about her historic achievement in becoming the first woman VP?

She literally says “I am a woman” in her intro.

Some people believe she wouldn’t play well with working-class voters as her party’s nominee in 2024, but I don’t know. That clip feels pure “Sandusky, Ohio” to me, brother.

I can’t tell from the clips below whether these introductions were part of the protocol for the meeting that was agreed upon in advance by participants or whether Harris inadvertently peer-pressured the others into following her lead by opening the way she did. When the vice president of the United States states for the record that she’s a woman in a blue suit, I guess you’re obliged to state that you have blonde highlights or whatever.

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Only the first woman of those three bothers to state her pronouns, which makes me wonder if Harris misunderstood the point of the intro. Her staff might have told her to describe herself so that blind viewers could picture her better, leading her to lapse instinctively into the sort of identity recitations any well-trained liberal would undertake when asked to introduce themselves. The pronouns are superfluous in context, but one can never gesture too broadly at inclusiveness in hoping to please Democratic constituents.

Exit question: When is Biden going to start doing this? We should all know where he stands on his gender identity after spending 900 years as a man.

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