Show, don't tell: Kamala Harris lets her potential to make history speak for itself
Unlike Hillary Clinton eight years ago, Vice President Kamala Harris does not talk much about the potential to elect the first female president.
CHICAGO — The delegates wore suffragette white; Vice President Kamala Harris did not.
Actor Eva Longoria led the crowd in a chant of "she se puede" and other speakers touted the chance to put a woman in the White House, but Harris never acknowledged that she would be the first female president in American history during her acceptance speech to the Democratic National Convention on Thursday.
And the word “representation” was barely uttered from the stage during all four nights of the convention.
Eight years after Hillary Clinton made “I’m with her” her slogan and framed her campaign around “shattering the highest, hardest glass ceiling,” Harris has let the history-making potential of her candidacy speak for itself, following a golden rule of storytelling: Show, don't tell.
“I don’t think she has to remind people she’s a Black woman,” said former Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez, who is now a top official in President Joe Biden’s White House.
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