Chitra Ragavan, C-suite tech executive, strategic advisor, executive coach and award-winning journalist, authored "Why Kamala Harris needs a 'competent' white man to win" for The Hill recently, and the headline drew me in. Naturally, I asked if she'd join me shortly before Kamala Harris chose a (more than) 'competent white man' in Tim Walz to be the VP nominee for the Democratic Party, which I'll get to late in the show (though I essentially endorsed him eight days ago), but first ...

I wanted Chitra to explain to me what the "warmth-competence matrix" is and if Kamala Harris is walking a tightrope (or is it a Venn diagram?) between the two well enough.

Nancy Pelosi appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to react to the news that Tim Walz had been tabbed, by the way, and rebuffed notions that Walz is "too progressive."