The ticket's set: How will Kamala Harris play in Nevada?

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — In picking Kamala Harris, Joe Biden picks a former prosecutor, a sitting US senator, and a former democratic candidate for president.

Biden's top Nevada surrogate, Congresswoman Dina Titus, is thrilled.

"But I think he picked somebody that he's simpatico with somebody who will bring some excitement to the ticket and diversity to the ticket and just be a great partner. He knows what it means to be vice president and so I think he can pick the best", Titus says.

It seems ages ago, but liberal Bernie Sanders won the Nevada caucus. Harris had dropped out, but she was never the most liberal in the Democrat field. Now she's the running mate.

"For me, it was a great pick. I haven't been happier," says Annette Magnus, the Executive Director of the progressive group Battle Born Progress.

The question for local Democrats is will Harris get out votes? Will the left vote, or stay home?

Magnus says staying home is not an option.

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"You know, honestly, I've been saying since the beginning they could have put up a ham sandwich and I would have been fine with that. It's better than the current administration and what we have there," she says.

Fellow progressive Hugh Jackson, the editor of the Nevada Current, says the vice presidential nominee this year won't swing the election, and perhaps not the nominee himself.

"I've joked in the past, mostly joking, that the result is going to be the same whether it's Donald Trump versus Joe Biden or Donald Trump versus a potted plant. It's all about Trump - that's what the election is about," Jackson says.

Jackson says Harris, who is African-American and Indian, may inspire young African-Americans to vote.

"It's not that they're going to vote for Trump, but they might just not vote at all. And so I don't know if having Harris on the ticket will help in that respect. I don't think it will hurt," Jackson says.

Harris has history on her side: she is the first African-American woman to be chosen as a running mate.

Local Republicans say Harris will energize their base.

"Every job-killing proposal under the socialist sun she's adopted and has proven that Joe Biden has completely been taken over by the extremes in his party," claims Keith Schipper, a spokesperson for the Nevada Trump campaign.

"Trump is clearly an underdog here," says the dean of Nevada political reporting, Jon Ralston, the Editor of the Nevada Independent. But he warns that with the election 83 days away, much can happen.

"The problem for Trump here and any statewide Republican candidate whether it's for president or governor or any other office is Clark County, where Democrats have this huge double-digit lead, the so-called firewall. If Trump can keep Biden from under 10 points, a 10 point victory in Clark County, he could win the state," Ralston says.