Politico is the same publication that jumped the gun on Kommiela being picked for VP (two weeks early, IIRC). Their excuse when they retracted the article was that they had articles about all of the VP candidates written but the one about Harris was "leaked".
My point being, they're idiots, but they're idiots in the know, and right now they know something is up and are trying to downplay it.
Politico is the same publication that jumped the gun on Kommiela being picked for VP (two weeks early, IIRC). Their excuse when they retracted the article was that they had articles about all of the VP candidates written but the one about Harris was "leaked".
My point being, they're idiots, but they're idiots in the know, and right now they know something is up and are trying to downplay it.