Chuck Todd: How Harris can use her VP search to define herself

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : It's possible to do that in governor's races, harder to do as the No. 2 in a presidential election.
52% : Trump, having won, gets to decide what the party's platform is ... which is an emphasis on states making the decision.
42% : Of course, Trump didn't pick Vance for the campaign.
35% : At a minimum, she would get a head start on any future transition if she's fortunate enough to turn this campaign around and pull the upset over Trump.
23% : The one issue Trump will pound Harris on is the border.
21% : It has been just over a week since Trump picked Sen. JD Vance as his running mate, and one can already sense a tinge of regret among some forces in Trump world.
21% : I can easily see Democrats running ads saying that if Trump doesn't finish his term, Vance would be president and he would pursue an abortion ban.
20% : I laid out the case for Beshear last week, including his experience beating an incumbent governor in 2019, Matt Bevin, who was known as "Trump before Trump."

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