What polling shows about the top VP contenders for Kamala Harris: Mark Kelly, Josh Shapiro emerge as frontrunners; Andy Beshear, Tim Walz are more unknown
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Please fucking God not Kelly or Shapiro



The leader of the UAW just came out to say it should be Beshear or Walz. If Harris doesn’t want to listen to the unions, I fear she’s done in the midwest. And even if she does win, it’s still a sign that the administration will revert back to Obama era ignoring union policies
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I think that’s what’s going to happen. I think Kamala Harris is a return to the Obama era.

She will win because the truth is Trump is an incredibly weak candidate, and the only reason he looked likely to win is because Joe Biden had aged to the point that he could no longer speak coherently

2020 Joe Biden wins even easier than he did four years ago. Trump is just a much weaker candidate today than he ever was.

He’s a convicted felon 

He’s blamed for abortion no longer being a nationwide right 

There are people that believe he’s a genuine threat to democracy.

Etc.

he maxes out at about 40% of Americans supporting him he can only win if the Democrats put up somebody like this version of Joe Biden, and even the Democrats weren’t dumb enough to do that
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I think that’s likely, but I don’t think it’s for sure yet. We know so little about what Harris is going to be yet, so I’m not ruling out the idea she will continue Bidens surprisingly progressive economic platform. But this VP pick is going to be a signal to what kind of democrat she’s going to be.
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She comes from a lot richer background than Joe Biden does.

Joe Biden is actually surprisingly poor for somebody that has spent decades in Congress. Eg. he was going to sell his house to pay for his son’s cancer treatments until Obama heard and offered to cover the medical bills.

Harris’s brother-in-law is a high up executive at  Uber 

Her husband used to be a prominent corporate lawyer.

I’m Of the opinion that she’s further to the left on social issues than Biden is but not economic issues.

I wonder how much that will translate materially to US support of Israel. Eg. Will she cut off weapons.

I think she replaces people like Lina khan. I think a lot of the rich supporters of the Democratic Party didn’t love Biden because they were surprised at what his FTC did and what his NLRB did.
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I’m not saying she couldn’t be to the right of Biden on economic issues, but I don’t think her family background or history of wealth has to do with it. JB Pritzker is one of the more progressive democrats and he comes from a family of billionaires. Among other examples. 



But yeah Lina Khan is huge. But i just don’t know. I really hope Harris won’t get rid of her, but I have no idea what to expect yet. I really hope the dems know how bad it would look to fire one of their own FTC appointmentees, especially when they’re very popular 


I’m also holding onto hope that Warren and Sanders keep whatever power they have. I don’t really understand why they were able to get so much sway in the Biden administration, so I don’t know if it’s just a Biden thing or if the dem party knows this needs to be their future.
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