Democrats are hard selling Kamala Harris’ message that Trump and Vance are ‘weird’

Prominent Democrats championed Vice President Kamala Harris’s bid for the presidency on Sunday, one week after the official launch of her campaign, as she seeks to capitalize ona wave of support coalescing around her candidacy.

The Democratic Party’s sudden unification was on full display across the broadcast and cable news networks on Sunday as the party’s biggest stars lined up to deliver talking points on three issues: the strength of Harris’s resume, the perceived weirdness of Trump and his vice presidential candidate JD Vance, and Joe Biden’s lame-duck agenda item, Supreme Court reform.

Speaking on various news shows Sunday were three of the party’s younger, nationally-prominent members, Maryland Governor Wes More, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer also made an appearance on CBS’s Face the Nation. Gov Tim Walz, who like Buttigieg has been considered on the list of potential running mates for Harris this fall, appeared on CNN.

Moore, Pritzker, and Schumer all led with defenses of Harris and her long record as a prosecutor, senator and finally vice president, the former being a characteristic which many of Harris’s allies have said will create a sharp contrast with convicted felon Donald Trump on the debate stage and at the ballot box.

“Remember, this is a person who was a prosecutor,” noted Pritzker on ABC’s This Week. “She's somebody who understands that making the case is how you win, that going out there, every day prosecuting the case, especially against a 34-time convicted felon and, frankly, a congenital liar [is how you win].”

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Kamala Harris’ career as a prosecutor: “She's somebody who understands that