Harris makes the ‘safe’ choice…..
While Pennsylvania Gov Josh Shapiro was the clear media favourite….
He would have generated problems Harris…..
Party progressives did NOT like him and made THAT known….
Walz comes with the support of the Democratic Progressives and Black political supporters…..
Harris leads by almost double digits in Minnesota where he won his job against a Republican a decade ago and has kept the state in Democrats hands even with a GOP legislature…
Oh?
Leaving Shapiro in place in Pennsylvania should help Harris in. a win in. that state…
The media is reporting that Harris found Walz ‘Genuine ‘. in her interview with him…
They both are to embark on a two week campaign sprint across swing states….
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, has chosen Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota as her running mate, according to multiple people briefed on the matter, elevating a former football coach whose rural roots, liberal policies and buzzy takedowns of former President Donald J. Trump have recently put him on the map.
Mr. Walz, 60, emerged from a field of candidates who had better name recognition and more politically advantageous states. But he jumped to the top of Ms. Harris’s list, boosted by cable news appearances in which he declared that Republicans were “weird.” The new, clear articulation of why voters should reject Mr. Trump caught on fast and turned the spotlight on the plain-spoken Midwesterner behind it…..
Note….
Republicans are ALREADY begun to run against the Walz left leanings. bring back the tradional Republican defining Democrats as ‘Liberals’ …Left Leaners….
image….CBS
Pick post is HERE…..
In the end she’s making the left part of the party Happy….
The GOPer’s are going at the ‘Progressive’ thing HARD..…
Who gives a shit? They’d say that about whoever Harris picked. Look how they call Joe Biden a communist. Joe friggin Biden!
Walz is a solid pick. Middle Anerica. Veteran. Teacher. Football coach. Can fix your lawnmower. Or help you move a couch to the curb after you know who had a weird night on it.
Oh wow that’s a surprise!
Republicans always label any Democrat a “ librul” or a “progressive.”
Media interviews in the street in Minnesota gives Walz STRONG heads up…..
The early media narritive is the guy has STRONG support and he HAS worked WITH GOPer’s….
And he’s affiable Middle American guy…..
In every way possible Tim Walz is everything JD Vance pretends to be.
He’ll help you move a couch if you pay.him with a beer. And he won’t get weird with it.
He, he, he….
Indeed Scott‼️
Props to Harris and her team for doing what they wanted NOT just the media…
Lotta people repeating my ‘Safe Choice’ comment in the media…
Indeed Keith….
I LIKE HOW Walz seems….
Good Feeling Guy…
james’ spin that NOT picking Shapiro somehow makes Pennsylvania more winnable is… unique.
I am also intrigued by his constant use of saying that Shapiro is the “media” pick, but maybe I should not delve too deeply into that.
If you look online, there are certainly online types on the left being less subtle over who got passed over. Online MAGA is certainly thrilled and think they dodged something with Shapiro, or for that matter Kelly, being passed over.
This seems like a strategic mistake in regards to Pennsylvania and more centrist voters in general, but maybe it will not matter. Democrats absolutely have to win Pennsylvania or they have no path.
Also, I would assume this was not official until this morning. Governors already have security details.
My East Coast thing WAS a bust…..
I admit….
Both candidate’s went MidWest…..
The Gov KNEW last night if the Secret Service Detail as is normal showed up at 12MidNight…
The media knew then and as usual;….
‘Embargo’s their knowledge until the OFFICAL annoucment…
Please go into the filter and place my post here.
There probably WILL be a slight push back from Jews ….
But Wanz seems to be a Good Optical pick….
Kornacki has my back on Pa….
Shapiro just annouced that he WILL hustle in Pa and around the country FOR Harris/Walz
I look forward to Gov. Shapiro completing 2 successful term as PA Gov in 2030. Just in time to be the front runner in 2032.
Vance does a presser on his aircraft…..
Not a dumb guy….
He did call Walz to congratulate him…
He went after Harris looking for her to do a presser….
He raised the immigration issue….
He also painted California as a ‘Far Left’ place…
For the record, Tim Walz is a teetotaler. He stopped drinking after a 1995 DUI.
The North Star (or Gopher) State: mother of high officials and hopefuls: Warren Burger & Harry Blackmun, JJ, [The Minnesota Twins], Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, Eugene McCarthy, Harold Stassen, Tim Walz ….
Not a bad place to come from , eh?
Both VP choices have military experience…
Walz is already on the move to Pa via his new protection detail which of course drafts his bGov detail…
When Tim Walz was in high school his dad got cancer and passed. I was in middle school when the same happened to my dad. Walz credits social security survivors benefits with keeping his family from falling into poverty. I credit the same benefits as well as my dad’s union pension for saving my family.
JD Vance talks a lot about his hardscrabble upbringing and his grandfather’s blue collar job. But he supports corporations stripping away the same union benefits that gave his own family a better life.
Vance gave up his soul to get next to a convicted felon in a run for Vice President
He “gave up his soul” over three years ago trying to get a Senate primary endorsement.
And KEPT Giving Up……
At this point, I doubt either major party will ever (again) nominate a Jewish person for either President or Vice President. Ever.
Never is NOT reality view….
We have now a Mixed Race/Black Woman running for President after we had Eight Years of a Mixed/Black President…..
Who Knew?
Despite what many people believe, Jewish-Americans are statistically a very small part of the American population, and growing smaller every year.
Anti-Semitism is the last remaining acceptable vestige of bigotry.
Online Republican types seem as genuinely pleased by the Walz pick as online Democrat types think. They were worried Harris would pick someone else.
We are back to late 2023 where partisans in both parties are convinced that there is no way they can possibly lose the election. Someone is going to be wrong.
CG?
You STILL feel Republicans STILL think they ‘Got This’?
the MAGA apologists absolutely believe they have it in the bag and are giddy that she picked Walz instead of Shapiro or someone who would have been harder to paint as “far-left.” Harris picking Walz instead of doing a strategic move to try to win Pennsylvania or Arizona, or picking someone like Beshear who has won in a red state, seems to indicate that Harris and her folks think they already have the election won too, and can win Pennsylvania regardless. We will see.
And if Harris picked Shapiro these bigots would say she abandoned middle Murica and veterans. That the ticket was two “urban” lawyers blah blah blah.
Who gives a shit what people with tampons on their ears say?
And YES Scott….
There would have been attacks on ANY of the guys she picked….
Who cares what “MAGA apologists” think?
Meanwhile Trumps press secretary is blasting Walz for helping felons get back their right to vote.
I wonder if she knows that her owner is a…
Well when you’re in the Cult? Reality takes a back seat .
Hmmmm?
Felon Vote ?
Donald J. Trump???
Jack would know far better than I, but — at Kanye West’s urging, President Trump did sign a criminal justice reform bill that freed or reduced sentences for many lower level crimes.
On the other hand, MAGA world is dead certain that most American voters love Donald Trump [deep down in their dirty little hearts], and that any reported election return that does not re-elect him to the White House must therefore be rigged, e.g. by allowing felons and those millions of criminals crashing the border to poison the vote.
Border Crossings down more than 50% these days….
Biden should have been less stubborn and done that Executive Order months, if not years, earlier.
Jed Vance is wearing eye liner?
Drudge says so .
So, it sounds like it is being embraced as a kind of an “own the right” pick just like Vanee was an “own the libs” pick.
Michael Steele points out that if right wingers want to paint Walz providing school lunches, in favor of abortion rights and legal weed as “far left” they should have at it.
I do think it is funny that people on the left who have for years been calling for High School football to be banned are now going to talk incessantly about how great it was that Walz was a High School football coach.
Ben Shapiro compared Walz to the late comedian Chros Farley .
I guess it was supposed to he a fat joke buy the hateful twerp apparently forgot that Farley is very fondly remembered.
Maybe the weirdo needs to go back to perking off to his sister again.
I was seeing Democrats on Twitter say they wished Farley could play Walz and join Maya Rudolph as Harris on SNL.
I don’t see any physical resemblance between Walz and Farley.
I don’t see a Farley/Walz resemblance either. Jim Gaffigan maybe.
The only person IRL I’ve known who wants high school football banned is also against all vaccines.
Shapiro is speaking at the Philly rally now. I am definitely not a Democrat, but those that are and might be watching might be realizing what they are missing out on politically this year.
We will see how Walz does.
“I can’t wait to debate the guy. If he can get up and off the couch!”
Walz fucking nailed it!
In full disclosure, my brother and I were both Bar Mitzvahed by a Rabbi Shapiro.
Both campaign’s logos this year are horribly boring and basic.
Make Logos Great Again
Looks like Cori Bush is gone!
Both Harris and my Congressional District made the right choice today.
Go Harris/Walz!
Go Wesley Bell!
Cori Bush Loses Democratic Primary
Wesley Bell (D) defeated Rep. Cori Bush (D) in a Democratic primary in Missouri’s 1st congressional district.
Rep. Cori Bush (D) lost her primary in Missouri on Tuesday in the latest blow to the progressive “squad” on Capitol Hill, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ.
Bush’s loss to St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell in the 1st Congressional District’s Democratic primary makes her the second member of the group to lose reelection after Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) earlier this year…..
More….
Amazing tidbit… Walz is the first PERSON on a D ticket to not have attended law school since 1980.
I still think they should have gone with Shapiro because Pennsylvania is so crucial. If he was Catholic, they would have.
Give it up on Shapiro…
because you demanded that I will give you two options.
1. I will post about Shapiro every day, at least once
2.I will stop posting altogether.
I think we all know which option you are going to choose.
He, he, he….
What DEMAND?
Shapiro did NOT get picked…..
He announced that he WILL be going out to campaign FOR Harris/Walz…..
Do what ever you please CG……
I get this nonsense here from grown men every few months….
Good!
Too many damn lawyers in government as it is!
I say that as a lawyer🙂
I was for Shapiro too.
He didn’t get picked and as has been said here,this race isn’t going to be decided by the VP candidates.
Indeed,except for maybe 1960, it is difficult to make a decent argument as to the VP candidate having any effect upon the election.
I happen to think that if Trump had went with another option in 2016 than the Evangelical Mike Pence, he would have lost. Of course, he would still come to regret the choice.
Shapiro would have been a great pick but Walz rounds out the ticket much better IMO.
A Shapiro pick would have had two coastal (I consider Philly coastal) lawyers with zero military experience.
Yeah Ahapiro would have looked down PA but Walz is the “rising tide lifts all boats” approach in that we can shave off some rural Trump vote and bolster Democratic vote on the exurbs and suburbs across several battleground states.
According to some of his critics (falsely), Shapiro had military experience in the IDF.
I think the rural/small-town vote is basically gone for Democrats. Even in his wins for Governor, the rural vote went away from Walz, as compared to past DFL nominees.
The election will be decided in upscale suburbs.
I didn’t say Democrars would win rural counties. But shaving off the margin helps. I doubt you are an expert on rural areas. When was the last time you were downstate below Joliet?
The upscale burbs hace favored the Democrats since Roe was overturned.
Walz “mind your damn business” and Trump and Vance are “creepy and weird” will play well in that vein.
I agree completely Scott, the Walz pick was brilliant. I just read that the term “Happy Warrior” is trending on the “internets.” Don’t think it has anything to do with JD Vance. But in that regard, read what my friend Amanda Marcotte wrote about Vance’s counter rally yesterday in Philly.
Amanda Marcotte attended Sen. J.D. Vance’s (R-OH) campaign event in Philadelphia yesterday and noted one upside: “There was no line to use the ladies’ room.”
“Vance’s event was small, mean, and yes, weird, featuring the unjustified sarcasm of the candidate and a desperate feeling reminiscent of the mood at a strip mall shot bar at 2 a.m. on ‘ladies night.’”
“There was one kind of diversity in this small but weirdly intense crowd… Every type of white man that gets a hasty ‘swipe left’ on his dating profile was in attendance.”
Yes weird, it applies to the Republican ticket and the whole Republican Party.
The Republicans want to control what goes on in the bedroom, ban abortion, ban birth control, ban IVF, but not viagra of course since many of them can’t seem to get it up. The Republicans are even calling Walz “tampon Tim” because he wanted to make them available at school. They think that offering help to women with their daily hygiene is open to ridicule. Yep, weird and creepy.
So, let’s stop using the term MAGA and call them what they are Republicans who sold what souls they have left to Donald Trump.
Oh, please JD, have more weird rallies like the one you had yesterday.
Tim Walz is Lutheran. The same religion I was raised and confirmed in. There’s never been a Lutheran President or Vice President (that I’m aware of).
Minnesota is known for it’s large population of Lutherans but both VPs who hailed from that state were other Protestsnt religions (Humphrey was Methodist and Mondale Presbyterian).
HHH was raised Lutheran but joined a Methodist church when he moved and there was not a Lutheran one around.
Maybe Walz, a native Nebraskan, can help with what might be a very crucial 1 Electoral Vote from Omaha, NE. Still, there is there was chance of Democrats getting Florida, as slim as it might be, then Shapiro would have been the only choice (my quota reached for the day)
Eugene McCarthy, DFL (never a major-party nominee, although he won just under 1% as an independent in 1976) was a Roman Catholic.
Wesley Bells 5 point margin over Cori Bush here in MO-1 is about what I expected.
Early returns showed Bell winning by 15 but that was likely South St. Louis and inner suburbs like University City (which has a high percentage of Jewish residents). Cori’s North St. Louis base as well as inner burbs in North County narrowed that margin. Bell is from Ferguson but I imagine Bush carried that area.
I subscribe to the view that Walz is the Democratic VP choice for a couple of reasons…..
First……..
He probably interviewed better than Kelly and Shapiro
Second….
His choice would have cost Harris Progressive support, something that helped drag Biden down
Third……
Unfortunately, the Jewish factor could have been a factor
Fourth…..
Shapiro had some staff stories that might have served as distractions
It IS safe to say that the media wave WAS for Shapiro…..
But on this one?
The media took a Lose….
Walz seems on first run to be a solid and STRONG Mr Middle America
Not a Lawyer
Just a guy well liked by those he has met….
Props to Harris and her team
It won’t be mentioned….
And some will call it sexism
But women can be more ‘feelings’ oriented
And that maybe was the deciding factor in the choice
Wow james. Yeah, some may call it that.
But since you brought it up, does your wife still dislike Kamala Harris? This is information you used to personally volunteer on here numerous times in the past as your rationale for why she was a political drag.
She doesn’t….
And neither do I…..
BOTH of us WILL gladly join MILLIONS in voting FOR Kamala Harris to be the First Woman President….
We will hope she grows on us….
Right Now?
She’s Aceing it…..
So you don’t even LIKE her?
maybe I misread…
too busy today
FYI
Trump World Fueled Anti-Josh Shapiro Talk
The Bulwark: “The Trump campaign and its allies moved to quietly kneecap Shapiro. It did so by forging a de facto alliance with the enemy of its enemy, the progressive left.”
Politicalwire