HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? Vice Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris Names 2Pac as the ‘Best Rapper Alive.’

People are once again asking: Does Kamala Harris actually know who 2Pac is?

During the NAACP’s virtual convention Friday, the vice presidential nominee was asked who she believed was the “best rapper alive.”

“2Pac,” Harris said. CNN commentator Angela Rye, who moderated the event, quickly corrected the California senator, reminding her Pac has been dead for over two decades. “He’s not alive! You said, ‘He lives on…,’ Rye responded.

“I keep doing that,” Harris said with laugh. “Listen, West Coast girls think 2Pac lives on. I’m with you,” Rye added. “So 2Pac, keep going.”

As Mark Steyn writes, pandering to pop culture has a tendency to backfire on leftists:

Tucker and I started with Joe Biden playing “Despacito” on his cellphone to an Hispanic audience and then mulled more generally the desperate relationship between politicians and pop stars over recent decades:

The incident Steyn called ‘the gold standard’ of pandering was a 1998 encounter between Gore and grunge artist Courtney Love in which the Tennessee Democrat claimed to be a ‘big fan’ of hers.

To her credit, Courtney, the founder and lead singer of Hole, was having none of it. “Yeah, right,” she sneered. “Name a song.”

As any campaign consultant can tell you, the Politician’s First Rule of Holes is: When you’re in one, stop digging. Al Gore introduced us to a Second Rule: When you’re with one, stop pretending to dig her.

Heh, indeed.™