He’s an AIPAC stooge. Fuck him.
I want Mark Kelly
Not a terrible pick, but Tim Walz makes so much sense.
Can you give me your reasons why you like them?
Sure, speaking in terms of why he could bring more votes:
- He was a teacher for 20 years and has a Midwestern small town vibe that could appeal to a lot of voters
- He has so much charisma and isn’t afraid to call out far right leadership, but he does it in a way that does not alienate that voter base. He has even taken his message to fox news.
- He started the whole “weird” thing that is now being used effectively to nullify Trump and Vance’s empty rhetoric.
- His record as gov in Minnesota speaks for itself
- He’s very popular among labor unions
You really need to listen to him speak to understand his potential impact. Here’s a 10 min video containing a few of the interviews I’ve seen (after the short intro): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-nR3dRCAM
Thank you for the great comment. Point 2 in particular I think is really important.
I want the senate
I am the senate!
Hes the smart pick, but money overpowers smarts
Captain Spaceman wants the astronaut. What a surprise.
Look… it’s not what our country can do for you, it’s the really cool space stuff that you can do for the country.
Do any of the candidates for VP not have this issue?
I’ll vote for Kamala Harris regardless of who she picks for Vice.
Let’s go Andy Beshear!
Please please please, now is not the moment for an additional new minority to make the ticket. It’s already gonna be hard for many people to vote for a woman, and an Indian. We need the most vanilla white christian male to be Kamala’s running mate.
We need the most vanilla white christian male to be Kamala’s running mate.
That’s what Hillary did with Tim Caine and we all know how THAT turned out…
Hillary picked Tim Caine as a “Fuck you” to progressives.
Hopefully Harris is smarter than that.
You think Hillary’s VP’s demographics had anything to do with her losing? No, that’s not correct.
It was one of the many mistakes of hers that put her within cheating distance of the most unqualified and personally heinous candidate in American presidential history, yes.
Sure didn’t help.
I can remember most President/VP tickets, but didn’t even recognize Kaine at all… I must have completely tuned out after she screwed Bernie.
That or you don’t remember him because he’s the human equivalent of white bread with unsalted butter.
She didn’t screw Bernie, she crushed him, as much as I hate to admit it. Believing that Bernie got screwed, rather than beat, is the equivalent of believing trump got screwed, rather than beat.
They were times when he was within 5%, and his campaign also outraised her. My issue is not with the voting, but the numerous instances where the DNC put its thumb on the scale, and utterly disregarded progressives.
Harris got crushed during the presidential primary, but with the right framing we see how much potential she really has.
We will never know how much potential Bernie had, and that would be okay if we all felt like he got a fair shot and lost. Thats how you disenfranchise people. But some of that energy is back, and hopefully the DNC doesn’t make the same mistakes.
Don’t let Trump’s delusions about the election make you forget the clear facts that a “fuck billionaires” tax-the-wealthy candidate is going to be going head to head with real and actual institutionalized obstruction from big money donors.
They were times when he was within 5%, and his campaign also outraised her.
If we’re talking about right at the beginning when he won NH, sure. But she went on to clean up in the next few primaries and it was a run away from there. It was closer than expected, but it was never much of a race.
The irony being that the DNC rules actually favored sanders, and he got the most positive coverage in the media. The DNC bad mouthing him was wrong, and giving her debate questions was also wrong and ‘putting their thumb on the he scale.’ But the idea that he got screwed is not the reality. These were minor at best, and he got absolutely destroyed.
