This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. If there were doubts why Kamala Harris tapped an upper-Plains State Governor who 7-in-10 Americans recently held zero opinion of as her running mate, his speech before tens of thousands of Democrats late Wednesday indicated why he made the cut. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Inclusive, at times post-partisan, and persistently exuding common-sense with the best of the Midwest’s offerings, Minnesota Gov.