If VP Harris chooses Shapiro

Hi Reader,

It’s widely believed that Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), a Sabbath observant Jew, is going to be selected for Harris’s VP candidate.

I have a worry about that election though.

The Dems have a huge anti-Semitism problem on the extreme left. Jews are being held to standards nobody else is.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan I’m all for a Jewish VP. I think a Black woman with a Jewish running mate would drive MAGA up the wall and remind America what a multicultural, multiracial, multifaith nation looks like. If Harris doesn’t pick Gov Tim Walz, I’m fine with Gov JB Pritzker. 4:40 PM • Aug 4, 2024 176 Retweets 1928 Likes Read 238 replies

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan The idea that Harris would undermine all the momentum she’s built up with younger, progressive, non-white voters, by picking the guy who compared antiwar students to the KKK & volunteered on an Israeli military base, while Walz, Beshear & Prizker are right there, is insane to me 4:0 PM • Aug 3, 2024 1984 Retweets 14739 Likes Read 1094 replies

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In all fairness, plenty of anti-Semitism exists on the extreme right, but it isn’t as public as that on the extreme left.

With Harris’s time as a Senator she was proudly crowned the most liberal senator in the Senate. She notably failed to discharge her duty as President of the Senate while Prime Minister Netanyahu delivered a speech to a joint session of Congress.

In a move clearly pandering to the extreme left, in Harris’s meeting with Netanyahu she went out of her way to mention her sympathies for Palestinian suffering (nothing wrong with that).

But, when you combine that with her previous support for the "defund the police" movement and her push to abolish private health insurance a-la Bernie Sanders, the picture doesn't look good for her as not being an extreme leftist.

Charles Chakkalo - GenZ Centrist @MrChakkalo This is @KamalaHarris's biggest problem. It'll be tough to win over the center. 4:57 PM • Jul 21, 2024 0 Retweets 1 Likes

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I mean for years, she's been touting her attorney general background. But her years as a legislator show anything but law and order.

So my concern with picking Shapiro is that she knows she needs centrists to elect her president. In her picking Shapiro, she may give off the impression, she'd be a centrist candidate. I fear she is not a centrist, and the Shapiro selection would be a facade.

We don't know where Harris stands on almost any substantive issue. As a legislator and as a VP, almost nothing was delivered. It is worth noting VPs generally don't have significant achievements in that role. But I think she had plenty of chances to get those goals anyways.

Shapiro is Harris's best shot to deliver Pennsylvania and potentially the presidency. But what lies behind the potential ticket worries me.

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