You are correct and this is a red herring meant to distract. There are HUGE issues to concentrate on and this isn’t one of them.
Why they threw Harris into the race is a mystery. She’s not well-liked......even by her own party.
She abandoned her presidency effort early on....... she was getting only 5% of Democrat support.
Her appalling lack of gravitas is a huge turnoff.......she prefers to giggle her way through serious issues.