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Kamala Harris delivers Joe Biden a much-needed jolt of energy

The Democrat candidate's running mate provides the suburban American voters who will largely decide 2020’s race with an option that doesn’t threaten their way of life.

Washington | Four years ago when Hillary Clinton chose an obscure senator, Tim Kaine, as her running mate you could hear the crickets.

Barely one in three Americans polled by Gallup registered Kaine as an “excellent” or “pretty good choice” - damning him with faint praise and one of the highest levels of indifference in a quarter century. The rest is history.

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Jacob Greber was The Australian Financial Review’s senior political correspondent. Connect with Jacob on Twitter. Email Jacob at jgreber@afr.com

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