PITTSBURGH — Vice President Kamala Harris’s decision to visit the Penzeys Spices store on Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Strip District was not decided in a vacuum. Her advance team spent countless days in the city researching the business and thoroughly checking its owners’ backgrounds, including their worldviews, social media posts, and who would be in the business.

Any halfway decent advance team knows exactly where it’s placing its boss and has a rudimentary ability to use Google to type in “best places to go in Pittsburgh’s Strip District” and see Pennsylvania Macaroni, Wiggle Whiskey, and the Sen. John Heinz History Center come up first.