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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYour VP pick from a list of some of the rumored choices
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Josh Shapiro | |
14 (15%) |
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Roy Cooper | |
5 (5%) |
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Andy Beshear | |
10 (11%) |
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Mark Kelly | |
34 (37%) |
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Gretchen Whitmer | |
1 (1%) |
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JB Pritzker | |
1 (1%) |
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Tim Walz | |
3 (3%) |
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Amy Klobuchar | |
0 (0%) |
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Pete Buttigieg | |
22 (24%) |
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Somebody else | |
2 (2%) |
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calimary
(83,741 posts)Shes a Californian. Mark Kelly is from Arizona. Too much West Coast - but I ve gotta admit, I personally LOVE-LOVE-LOVE it!
I trust her to choose wisely, whoever she picks.
LizBeth
(10,611 posts)we have so many good ones. Doesn't he lean right? We need left leaning. That is what the country is wanting now. Kelly pulls away from that.
ColinC
(10,245 posts)But the bigger issue time is charisma and region. Pennsylvania is a crucial state -if not the crucial state. Having that in the bag from the start with Shapiro would help us expand the map in a potentially huge way.
LizBeth
(10,611 posts)I could google but I am tarrrrred, still working and so tared. They are working me hard
bamagal62
(3,563 posts)Gretchen, Im not sure shell do it. I voted Pete because the younger generation absolutely loves him. On another note, Shapiro is a master speaker. (And, my daughter did vote for him while she living in PA.) He has that special cadence that only few people have (Obama). Its a tough choice.
jezebel321
(285 posts)elocs
(23,021 posts)and that makes his choice golden because this will likely be a close election and not a blowout like some seem to wish it to be. Pennsylvania is a swing state that Biden won in '20 but Trump won in '16.
pinkstarburst
(1,535 posts)Not only do I think he's one of the most brilliant minds of this generation, but I love the momentum he has right now with young people and I think we need to grab that and run with it!
TBF
(33,621 posts)Like others I believe he can deliver Pennsylvania. I'm also - like the rest of social media - a fan of Pete's. I'm confident either would be a great choice.
ColinC
(10,245 posts)Not because I agree with everything he supports policy wise -since almost no vice president has any say in policy anyways with the rare exceptions of being a tie breaking vote (not going to be an issue if Shapiro is VP since he will bring coattails like weve never seen!)
TBF
(33,621 posts)he actually practiced law for a while at a corporate firm in Philly which will make the business community more comfortable. He's a decade younger than her (and Kelly) - firmly in Gen X territory. Definitely a good pick.
berniesandersmittens
(11,642 posts)TomSlick
(11,662 posts)Whoever VP Harris chooses.
Wednesdays
(19,690 posts)ecstatic
(34,145 posts)I had an immediate attraction to Shapiro in just 30 seconds. Everything he said was what I want to hear from a candidate.
I wasn't really impressed by what I saw from the others for various reasons, some of which I'll admit are petty (accents, appearance).
All of that said, I really like Shapiro, I really like Wes Moore, and I really like Pete B, but I think we should only have one unprecedented candidate at a time. We need to be able to quickly understand what works and what doesn't work so that if something goes wrong we can tweak it in the future. We also have to be mindful about the current areas of tension within our coalition.
It's really effed up but I think we're forced to have a traditional white male VP at this time. The choices that I've been made aware of are boring but whatever. The focus should just be on winning the White House. That's it. Hopefully if an older candidate is chosen, s/he will be willing to step aside in eight years so that we don't end up in a similar situation again.