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tableaus that will lend to her gravitas without ever succeeding.

On top of all this, she hasn’t managed to secure a close, trusted relationship with the president.

Any rational observer could have predicted that Biden’s VP pick was going to be particularly sensitive given that, as de Gaulle famously said, “Old age is a shipwreck.” Instead, Biden played identity politics by choosing Harris, and it’s understandable now that some Democrats would like, against all evidence, to bank everything on Biden’s youthful vigor.

Rich Lowry is editor-inchief of the National Review.

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