Kamala Harris’ Brat Summer Is Almost Over. What’s Next?

Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus): POTUS is not going to be running for a second term. Oh my God, I’m going to run. Oh my God.

Dan Egan (Reid Scott): Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait, ma’am, give me this straight poop ears, is this for real?

Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus): It’s totally-

Dan Egan (Reid Scott): Yeah.

Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus): For real.

Dan Egan (Reid Scott): Oh, thank you.

Hunter Harris: People who know Veep by heart, it’s our season, let me tell you that.

Leah Feiger: It’s so good.

Hunter Harris: But I mean, truly, it was ridiculous the degree that Kamala Harris was being publicly, and it seemed privately, undermined.

Leah Feiger: Yeah, absolutely.

Hunter Harris: And then I think it’s worked in her favor, the degree to which the Biden campaign had basically hidden her away.

Leah Feiger: Yeah.

Hunter Harris: Because all the reasons why the internet and young people had sort of soured on Kamala, her record as a prosecutor, her stance on Gaza, people kind of forgot that she was less progressive than she’d seemed.

Leah Feiger: Sure, totally, totally. Yeah, she just popped out. It’s an underdog story, is kind of how it feels, which is hilarious, because she’s on the incumbent side.

Hunter Harris: It is shocking that someone who has been so close to the presidency for the last four years, is like the underdog in this narrative because-

Leah Feiger: Yeah.

Hunter Harris: But she wears it very well. I think-

Leah Feiger: Yeah.

Hunter Harris: That it is, I wonder when this will all kind of turn, when politics will become-

Leah Feiger: Oh, yes.

Hunter Harris: Politics again and not pop culture, and then it will feel like, okay, we’re back to none of this being very fun.

Leah Feiger: Well, I guess that brings me to, is Brat Summer over already? Let’s talk about it, Biden drops out, Charlie XCX wrote on X, that Kamala is Brat. The Harris campaign seized on it, they changed a ton of their social stuff. They’ve been doing things that the Biden campaign just couldn’t have even dreamt of with social media. What are you seeing in terms of trends changing, things perhaps shifting in, even the discussion about it? Like you can’t have a brat summer in October.

Hunter Harris: Sure. I think the Brat Summer sort of phenomenon, will eventually die down, although Obama did just put a Brat song in his annual summer playlist. I said-

Leah Feiger: Like, bless the intern who is like super on top. That entire playlist, I’m like, “This is amazing.”

Hunter Harris: There’s something so petty to me about him not putting Chappell Roan, like the music story of the summer being absent from his playlist.

Leah Feiger: I was looking for, Hot to Go, that was what I wanted to see pop up on the Obama playlist.