Kamala Harris needs to raise her profile by a magnitude of ten

If, as seems to be true, there's a growing disaffection among young voters in the US over the venerable age of the two most likely candidates for the November election, it should be encumbent on both Joe Biden and Donald Trump to focus much more on their chosen vice president running-mate. But, more specifically, Biden should be upping the profile of his running-mate Kamala Harris. If Biden wins the election but is forced for one reason or another to step down, say, half way through his presidency, voters are going to want to feel confident that his Number Two would be able to take over seemlessly and be a strong president. At the mment I doubt there are many Americans who feel like that about Kamala Harris, mostly because her political profile has been so low, almost limbo-low, that they don't really have much idea how good or effective she would be as a shoe-in president. I suspect that a lot of voters will have this in mind if they enter the polling booth with the intention of voting Democrat. With Trump it's not such a big issue. He's a few years younger than Biden and never has a photograph of him stumbling down the stairs from an airplane or wandering off a stage not knowing which way to go. He will choose someone younger than him as his running-mate but he won't even contemplate stepping down prematurely if he wins the White House and, say, falls ill. But for Biden, now in his 80s, age is always going to be a big issue So, step forward, Kamala and show the nation what you are made of.