Appearing on NBC's "Morning Joe" to explain why he labeled Vice President Kamala Harris' decision to select Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) as her running mate as "comfort food" for the masses, Politico's Jonathan Martin noted a moment during the rowdy Philadelphia rally that should be keeping GOP campaign strategists up nights.
Speaking with co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, Martin noted, "I wrote this morning, Joe, in my column, I thought the most captivating part of the evening is the clip that you guys just played and she [Harris] ad-libbed briefly off the teleprompter three times: 'Only in America. Only in America,' and the crowd started chanting 'USA' as if they were in Paris for the Olympics. That is the stuff of GOP nightmares right there."
"When you have a moment and a Democratic crowd in chanting 'USA' in Philly to a biracial ticket. Because it evokes memories of 2008, that moment to me last night was the closest thing we've seen in this cycle to the '08 campaign."
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"And that, to me, was the best part of the night for this ticket," he added.
"Lastly, Joe," Martin observed. "I will just say, I think this Kamala Harris is a return to the Kamala Harris Californians knew when she was the AG and senator. Somebody who kind of lost her mojo, lost her confidence the first couple of years in D.C. but somebody who I thought had a lot more swagger in California — this is that Kamala Harris."
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