SEE HOW MUCH YOU COULD SAVE WITH A FREE ESTIMATE TODAY I TOOK ON PERPETRATORS OF ALL KINDS, SO HEAR ME WHEN I SAY I KNOW DONALD TRUMP’S TYPE. VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS, POISED TO BE THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT. PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN STEPPING ASIDE AND OUT OF THE RACE AND PUTTING HIS FULL SUPPORT BEHIND HIS VP IN A HISTORIC MOVE. I’M NOW JOINED BY DOCTOR NICOLA GOLD, A PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATIONS ARTS AND SCIENCES AT PENN STATE. LEHIGH VALLEY. DOCTOR GOOGLE, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE WITH US. THANK YOU. SO IF KAMALA HARRIS BECOMES A DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE, SHE WOULD BE THE SECOND WOMAN TO DO SO SINCE HILLARY CLINTON IN 2016. TALK ABOUT HOW SIGNIFICANT THIS SHIFT IS IN POLITICAL PROWESS. WHEN THE RACE WAS JUST TWO MEN ABOUT A WEEK AGO, IT’S REALLY SIGNIFICANT. AND IN MY 30 YEARS OF RESEARCH OF WOMEN AND POLITICS, BOTH REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC WOMEN, WHENEVER A WOMAN ENTERS A POLITICAL RACE, SHE IS EXAMINED THROUGH A GENDERED LENS. WHETHER WE LIKE TO BELIEVE THAT OR NOT. SO ISSUES SUCH AS HER HAIRSTYLE OR HER CHANGE OF CLOTHING STYLE, IF SHE LAUGHS LOUDLY OR NOT ENOUGH, IF SHE SMILES TOO MUCH OR NOT ENOUGH, ARE THE KINDS OF GENDERED LENSES WE TEND TO LOOK AT WOMEN, POLITICAL CANDIDATES THROUGH THAT WE DON’T PUT MEN CANDIDATES THROUGH. AND HILLARY CLINTON ACTUALLY WROTE IN A NEW YORK TIMES OP ED SAYING THIS. HARRIS’S RECORD AND CHARACTER WILL BE DISTORTED AND DISPARAGED BY A FLOOD OF DISINFORMATION AND THE KIND OF UGLY PREJUDICE WE’RE ALREADY HEARING FROM MAGA MOUTHPIECES. DOCTOR, WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT? I THINK IT’S TRUE. I THINK IF WE LOOK AT THE RHETORIC SURROUNDING WOMEN CANDIDATES, WE WILL SEE A LOT OF ATTACKS. AN EXAMPLE OF THIS MIGHT BE HER STATUS AS A MOTHER. AND I RECENTLY SAW AN ARTICLE THAT SAID, KAMALA, KAMALA HARRIS DOES NOT HAVE CHILDREN AND THAT, YOU KNOW, NOW, WHETHER THAT IS A FACTOR IN HER LEADERSHIP OR NOT SHOULD NEVER BE DISCUSSED. AND WE RARELY KNOW THE FAMILY MAKEUP OF MALE CANDIDATES. IF WE KNOW IT, WE DON’T DISCUSS IT. SO THAT’S AN EXAMPLE OF HOW A FEMALE CANDIDATE IS OFTEN LOOKED AT THROUGH A GENDERED LENS. AND MOTHERHOOD IS PERHAPS THE MOST GENDERED OF ALL. AND TONIGHT, AT EIGHT, PRESIDENT BIDEN WILL ADDRESS THE NATION ON HIS DECISION TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE. WHAT SHOULD HE TALK ABOUT? AS HE MAKES HIS PITCH TO AMERICA TO NOMINATE HIS VP? AS POTENTIALLY THE FIRST FEMALE IN THE OVAL OFFICE? WELL, I WOULDN’T PRETEND TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HE SHOULD SAY, BUT WHAT I THINK HE’S PROBABLY GOING TO SAY IS HE’S GOING TO EXPRESS HIS GRATITUDE AND PRIDE IN THE NATION, AND THAT HE WANTED TO DO THE RIGHT THING, EVEN IF IT WENT AGAINST HIS HIS INSTINCTS. AND I THINK YOU’LL LIKELY HEAR HIM SAY SOMETHING VERY POSITIVE ABOUT VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS, SINCE HE DID ENDORSE HER AND SHE SEEMS TO BE THE LIKELY NOMINEE. AND PENNSYLVANIA IN PARTICULAR, HAS NEVER ELECTED A FEMALE SENATOR OR GOVERNOR. DO YOU THINK HARRIS WOULD STRUGGLE IN THE STATE BECAUSE OF THAT? NOT NECESSARILY. I THINK THAT IT IT IT’S LESS OF A PROBLEM FOR A FEMALE CANDIDATE IN IT’S NOT A SPECIFIC PROBLEM IN ANY SPECIFIC STATE, IN MY VIEW. I DO THINK, HOWEVER, THOUGH WE WILL BE LOOKING AT HER THROUGH A GENDERED LENS, AND I THINK THAT IT’S NOT A MATTER OF IF WE’RE GOING TO ELECT A WOMAN SENATOR IN PENNSYLVANIA OR A WOMAN GOVERNOR IN PENNSYLVANIA, OR IN FACT, A WOMAN PRESIDENT. IT’S NOT A MATTER OF IF IT IS A MATTER OF WHEN, BUT WE SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE BIASES THAT COME TO A FEMALE CANDIDATES IN A WAY THAT DON’T COME TO MALE CANDIDATES. DOCTOR NIKOLA GUTFELD, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE F