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Opinion Kamala Harris exposes the GOP’s radicalism

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August 15, 2020 at 8:30 a.m. EDT
President Trump speaks during a covid-19 briefing at the White House on Thursday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

It has been quite a show as President Trump and the Republicans moved feverishly — and at times hysterically — from one attack line against Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) to another.

In one instant, former vice president Joe Biden’s running mate is a dangerous left-winger. Then, suddenly, she’s a “top cop” and an unprincipled sellout to the progressive cause. She is, as all women who oppose Trump are eventually labeled, “nasty.”