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Beshear, Kelly, Shapiro? GOP should fear this Harris VP option.

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01.08.2024

Vice President Kamala Harris has a difficult decision in front of her. Now that she has secured enough delegates to become the Democrats’ nominee for president, she has to choose her running mate.

The Harris campaign has reportedly requested vetting materials from North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly. There are also reports that U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker are under consideration.

Names like Tim Walz and Roy Cooper strike me as uninspired picks out of the gate. Walz, 60, has immense baggage from his time presiding over the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots that ravaged Minnesota. Cooper, 67, simply falls victim to his own age, which Democrats should seek to avoid in contrast with JD Vance, the Republican vice........

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