When Tim Walz walked into a critical meeting with Kamala Harris last summer, he seemed resigned to the Democratic presidential nominee-in-waiting opting for another contender to be her running mate.

In a new recounting by Harris, the vice president who suddenly shot to the top of the ticket, the search for her own vice presidential nominee was also extraordinarily difficult because it was so abbreviated. Walz, the two-term Minnesota governor, struck Harris with a self-defeating vibe in what amounted to a job interview.

“It was quickly clear to me that Tim had walked into that room feeling he wouldn’t get the job,” Harris writes. “The first thing he said as he sat down — I don’t even know if the door had closed behind him — was: ‘Whether or not you pick me, I’m going to do everything I ca

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