Vice President Hour: Harris decided among six white men to follow him in his candidacy

2024-08-04 10:17:03

When you choose it running mate inside USAThe maxim prevails over other considerations: First, don’t get hurte (The first thing is to do no harm). You know very well John McCainwho made the biggest mistake of his campaign in 2008 by choosing Sarah Palin, the rising governor of Alaska who says he sees Russia from his balcony and is constantly appalled by its cultural gaps and constant mistakes. And the democrats also know it George McGovernwho had to remove his number two in 1972, Thomas Eagleton, Just 18 days after his appointment, it was revealed at one point that he was taking strong antibiotics and suffering from bipolar disorder with suicidal tendencies. So it is important to do your homework before making a decision. This week it is the turn of Kamala Harris.

The Californian has had much less time than usual to monitor, a speed explained by the rapid change of cards in the Democratic campaign following the resignation of Joe Biden. “We vetted the candidates for months,” David Axelrod, the campaign planner who brought Barack Obama to the presidency, recently said. “They have to do it in a matter of days, which is very stressful.” According to NBC News, it’s Harris’ team interviewed six candidates with the assistance of the former state attorney general’s legal office, Eric held it, in charge of investigating that there are no bodies in any of their closets. Not even an example. But it will be a candidate who will decide with her husband Doug Emhoff after interviewing the final candidates this weekend, as his campaign explained to the American press.

White and moderate men

Those selected for the final round of the process are all male and whitewhich is explained by the intention to compensate for feminism and A variety of species of the Vice President, the first black candidate in history and also of Asian origin, which is from his mother’s Indian origin. All of them too moderate politicssurely because of the “progressive radical” symbol of the campaign Donald Trump, although it is a description far from the truth. “This is the president’s chance to show moderate and liberal voters that he has their interests in mind and is not going to be a left-wing president,” a Democratic campaign source told ABC News.

None of the names that the Harris group questioned is what can be called a star of American politics. He doesn’t necessarily need it, since he himself managed to energize the foundations and wake up the Biden campaign with large crowds, floods of volunteers and fundraising records. There are four governors in the final race (Josh ShapiroPennsylvania; Tim WalzMinnesota; Andy Beshear, Kentucky; y JB Pritzker, Illinois), a committee (Mark KellyArizona) and the Minister of Transportation (Pete Buttigieg). The vice president’s colleagues have said he prefers someone with executive experience and personal relationships. “Above all, he seeks a partner to rule,” they have said these days.

But there are other processes in the equation. Prioritize those region with a highly rated politician in one of the states that will decide the election? Choose it good problem and the best attack dog to face the Republican barrages? Or opt for a baby and just a profile that is different from yours to have the ability to expand your voter base? “He has the opportunity to expand his bases and send a message to the remaining voters who are open to him, something that is very rare,” said Axelrod in an interview with ‘Politico’.

If geography wins, the names with the most options are Sapphiravery popular as a governor Pennsylvaniathe most important of the states debated in November, and Kelly, the first from Arizona that ran for the Democrats in the elections. If you’ve had outdoor gambling, of course Buttigeig she Waltz, who has made a name for himself on the network for the warmth with which he is responding to Trump’s broadsides. If you are looking for it more conservative profilewhether Beshear is the man with the most numbers.

We don’t have to wait too long to find out. In the new, it is expected that this Tuesday the chosen one will be announced, that will be presented to the community in a conference in Pennsylvania, which will be followed by an intense tour of other states. No matter how important the name number two is, it should not be transcendental, it rarely is, as long as the Hippocratic maxim of doing no harm is respected. Trump did not. Your bet on JD Vance doesn’t seem to be working, a lesson Democrats should learn.