Democrats in Michigan rejoiced last week after presidential nominee Joe Biden revealed Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate. But so did many Republicans, immediately jumping on Harris’s record and her progressive policies and hoping to cast her as a radical California liberal who doesn’t understand Michigan values and issues.

The pressure was so intense for Biden to pick not only a woman but a black woman, that it wasn’t exactly a surprise when he selected Harris, whose father is from Jamaica and whose mother is from India.