‘That’s Not Controversial’: PBS Endorses Harris’s D.C. Statehood, Court Packing Schemes
1st August 2026
The main Democratic and media—but we repeat ourselves—conceit of the 2024 election that voters saw straight through was that former Vice President Kamala Harris is some sort of a moderate. Harris recently proved voters right again in a recent statement where she endorsed statehood for Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, expanding the Supreme Court to 13 justices, and the need to “revisit” the Electoral College. However, on Friday’s PBS News Hour, The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart agreed, “That’s not controversial.”
Not at PBS, that’s certainly true.
Moderator Geoff Bennett teed up Brooks by playing a clip of Harris insisting, “We need to revisit the Electoral College. We need to revisit the point of expanding the Court to 13 justices, like we have 13 district courts. We need to revisit, if they so want, statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.”
Bennett was not interested in examining the radical aspects of those proposals. Instead, he wondered if it showed Harris was in tune with the Democratic base, “So that’s the thing. Democrats are saying they want a candidate who will fight for the things that Democrats say they care about. What do you make of that message?”