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BRZEZINSKI: "Kamala Harris has what it takes. Joe writes in part this: 'It’s one thing to propel a presidential campaign off a launchpad and quite another to successfully send it into a safe political orbit. But a few days into her campaign, even Harris’s critics should take note that the junior senator managed something in her first campaign speech that the last Democratic nominee failed to do throughout the whole 2016 campaign. She gave Americans a compelling explanation as to why she wanted to be president. Her message, 'We are better than this,' was delivered in the fierce urgency of now in that it was much like the earlier campaign launched by senator Elizabeth Warren, who framed her White House bid as the continuation of her quest to protect consumers, to hold corporate leaders accountable, and to promote a fiery brand of progressivism shaped by the prairie populism of Oklahoma and the liberal ethos of Harvard intellectualism. Like Warren, Harris will be underestimated by team Trump at its own peril. We are of course in the opening steps of a grueling, nonstop, two-year battle. Perhaps Harris will prove far more adept at beginning a presidential campaign than actually running one and Warren may prove her critics correct by proving she lacks the personal touch to navigate the ugly give and take of modern presidential politics. But I doubt it.' I think the point you're making is that I wouldn’t underestimate these two candidates. And the fact that they're women, Heidi, is beside the point."