Democratic presidential candidate must use wisdom and judgment in selection of partner to take on Republicans’ Trump-Vance pairing
US vice-president Kamala Harris and Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro: Shapiro would be among several strong options as her running mate for the presidency. Photograph: Ryan Collerd/AFPForty-eight hours before US president Joe Biden reached the conclusion that his race was run, his transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, made an appearance on Bill Maher’s HBO political talk show, Real Time.
“I think… it’s super simple. These are very rich men who have decided to back the Republican Party, that tends to do good things for very rich men. And by the way, that’s kind of what you’re getting with JD, right? So, I knew a lot of people like him when I got to Harvard. I found a lot of people like him who would say whatever they needed to get ahead. And five years ago, that seemed like being the anti-Trump Republican, so that’s what he was.
Vance, he said, reminded him of another Republican, his former Indiana governor Mike Pence, “who I watched start out as an evangelical Christian who cared about rectitude and family values, and then get on board with a guy who was mixed up with a porn star, make excuses for him so that he could get power. And he did. He got four glorious years, I guess, as vice-president of the United States.
One of the immediate tasks for Harris, should she be confirmed as the Democratic nominee for the White House, is to decide who best fits the bill to help her contest the Trump-Vance double act. It will be an intriguing decision and one which will add to the sudden surge of momentum of the Democratic campaign.
As a popular senator in a border state, he could speak convincingly and authoritatively on a subject that the Republicans will seek to portray as a weakness for Harris – the border and immigration. But Harris equally has strong options in Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro and Roy Cooper, the governor of North Carolina. Trump took North Carolina in the 2016 and 2020 elections but the state has been heavily targeted by the Biden-Harris campaign, with 11 field offices opened this year.
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