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Who would your preferred Dem be for the new nominee? (beehaw.org)
submitted 4 months ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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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.

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[–] memfree@beehaw.org 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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?

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 6 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] match@pawb.social 2 points 4 months ago

Harris is already VP and therefore her white guy running mate doesn't have to be an established politician. Go for General Mark Milley.