Kamala was the safest pick
Yes but only if you endorse the "law and order" Trump is calling for that has Nixon southern strategy written all over it.
How do you simultaneously promise police reforms and a new contract on racism with her as VP? You now need riots and protests to stop just as much as Trump needs them to stop. We're actually more. Because Trump will point past the protest to the riots to delegitimize them. And now there's no response.
The Democrats will need to get back to pandemic failures and jobs and healthcare. Those are all pretty valid but again those are the things that we're driving the middle of the party already.
What does Kamala do better than an unknown Democrat that looks good on paper? Pick an establishment congresswoman anywhere And find three issues that she doesn't feel that strongly about and move them to the left.
Boring but safe. Little baggage.
Does Kamala Harris really have so much name recognition to outdo how bad she will play on the opening salvo of social media clips?