It was just a joke. A couple of weeks ago, I laughed with my boyfriend that he has a vested reason to hope for a Kamala Harris victory in November, noting that the vice president and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, are "both big vinyl heads." Harris likes to visit record stores around the country and Walz geeks out about turntables on social media. And my partner, Marc Faletti, owns a record store called Latchkey in Philadelphia. "Having the leaders of the free world talk up the joys of collecting records would be a boon to your business," I said to him, only half-kidding.
"Wouldn't it be wild," I added, "If the campaign had a stop at your store?"
