I’m OK with Harris. Not thrilled, but OK.
It would have been nice to get Warren. Sanders has the same age issue (though is still mentally there in interviews) as Biden, and that window has closed. So many people at the federal level have clung to their positions for so long, it feels like as a country, we wouldn’t be familiar with people in the primes of their life actually running the show.
At 45, I shouldn’t still be waiting for my generation to have any level of power. AARP is coming for me in 10 years.
I’m pysched for a Harris campaign and Presidency. I’d like to see a swing-state white guy as her VP. I feel like two women (like Whitmer) on the ballot scares potential swing voters. I know that’s not fair, but voters aren’t fair.
Maybe Shapiro? – if he’s not too busy being governor of Pennsylvania.
Mark Kelly might be a good pick (archive link).
NOT Gavin Newsom because the VP can’t be from same state as Prez and also: not a swing state.
EDIT: Vox has a short list suggesting others I didn’t mention include Gov. Roy Cooper (North Carolina), Gov. Andy Beshear (Kentucky), Gov. J.B. Pritzker (Illinois), and Secretary Pete Buttigieg (now D.C., from Indiana).
Those are the first few that come to mind. Who else ya got to be the VP for Harris?
Newsom comes with a raft cruise liner of other problems. He’s like choosing a red-meat wishlist for the right.
I’d be surprised if Kelly isn’t on the short list. I like Shapiro, but it feels like when Dems pick a governor with less than two years in that role, things go poorly.
But agreed that swing-state White guy is sadly the only option in this environment.
I don’t care. They could put Jimmy Carter on the ballot and I’d vote for him, and honestly he’d probably be a better pick than anyone they actually would consider. This is going to be a stupid mess, just to most likely get the person who would have become president if something happened to Biden anyway at the top of the ticket. Just a bunch of panicked stupidity, because apparently they just figured out that the 82 year old is old this month.
Biden gave a great State of the Union Address in March. Yes, it was all on teleprompter, but he moved like a normal old guy, not the careful shuffling he’s been doing lately. I’m thinking Biden’s decline has been uneven and rapid. Yes, he’s old, but he wasn’t acting old all the time until very, very recently.
I’m glad he’s giving himself a chance to slow down. I think he needs it and deserves it.
I’m glad to vote for Harris. And like you said, I’d also vote for Jimmy Carter or even a Yellow Dog if that’s who’s chosen to go against Trump.
Jon Stewart
I think he’s way too smart to run for president. And he’s covered politics long enough that he also knows better.
younger Bernie
younger
Elizabeth Warren, she is fiercely against Wall Street and monopolies. It will not happen though.
