The Veepification of U.S. politics reached its climax this month, as Vice President Kamala Harris embarked on a swing state campaign tour alongside former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney. Their slogan? “Country Over Party” — an appeal to bipartisan unity that could also be construed as a celebration for the country’s demise. Social media users were quick to point out echoes of the HBO show.

Harris’s latest Cheney endeavor is part of her last-ditch attempt to win over disaffected GOP voters. As polls show that blue-collar workers are increasingly lining up behind Donald Trump, Harris has tried to make her “opportunity economy” agenda a focal point of her campaign. She’s tried to fashion herself as a champion of the working class, while noting in speeches and ads that Trump would be “a disaster for working people.” Meanwhile, her campaign has flaunted the endorsements of more than 200 Republicans, including 17 former staffers from Ronald Reagan’s administration. As president, the only thing she’d do differently than Joe Biden, she told CNN, is appoint a Republican to her cabinet.

But despite the endorsements, the cabinet pledge, the pivot to right-wing policies on immigration and fracking, Harris has barely moved the needle among voters. Polling shows the presidential race is still neck and neck. The Harris campaign’s strategy of throwing a lovefest for the GOP is particularly baffling given her choice of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as vice president — an overture to progressives that was quickly abandoned for redder pastures.

Amid this muddled messaging, one of the Harris campaign’s most........

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