was a weak pick. He truly adds nothing electorally to the ticket, and he solidifies just how hard a Leftist Kamala truly is. I mean, is anyone more likely to vote for Harris now that Walz is on board?
Yeah, no.
Shapiro could have helped Harris nail down the all-important state of Pennsylvania, and represented for Harris a “Sister Souljah” moment of repudiation to the progressive left that the newly “centrist” Harris badly needs. Shapiro, and perhaps Mark Kelly (but certainlyAndy Beshear or Roy Cooper) would have been a move to add the veneer of ideological diversity (heh) to the ticket, like Michael Dukakis’s pick of Lloyd Bentsen in 1988, JFK picking LBJ in 1960, or Al Gore selecting Joe Lieberman in 2000. Instead she has doubled down on progressivism.