I'm rooting for Shapiro. Kelly would be good, but it's probably more important to lock up Pennsylvania than reach for Arizona. And the fact that the far left hates Shapiro is a point in his favor.
I live in Minnesota - Tim Walz is not moderate in the least. When he served in Congress, he was moderate enough to get elected in a somewhat conservative House district; his folksy manner appealed to the majority of voters who vote mostly on personality. But when he became Governor, he went hard Left: 100% with the radical transgender agenda, abortion rights for all nine months, big tax increase to create new welfare programs, a slave to the state teachers union, etc. Before Biden dropped out, he declared that Biden was cognitively fit enough to serve another four year term - a blatant lie, and he knew it.
Who is the strongest electorally is not as important as who is qualified to be president if it becomes necessary. That will also avoid repeating the awkward situation the party is in now.
I agree that to improve her chances of winning the election Harris should moderate her positions. But putting a moderate spin on her history of far left policies to win an election, and actually implementing policies if elected that would achieve the stated goal of “bringing people together” are two different things.
I previously voted for a black woman who I thought could do that — Condoleezza Rice. And this time around I’ll also write- in a rational person rejected by the extremists that dominate both major parties.
One thing to keep in mind is that voters nationally don't know who any of these people are. That's what I think gives someone like Beshear an advantage. In their eyes, he would be a Democrat who would be a Democrat who won Kentucky, a deep-red state filled with hillbillies, rednecks, and coal miners. It would be a strong signal to swing/undecided voters that Kamala is willing to move to the center.
It wouldn't necessarily just be an aesthetic either. Democrats in Kentucky and much of Appalachia have been operating outside of mainstream liberal orthodoxy for a long time and Beshear would likely surround himself with these kinds of people both during a Harris-Beshear campaign and a potential future Harris-Beshear administration. An infusion of people whose political survival has been dependent on winning the votes of non-college-educated working class white voters at the top of the Democratic Party could be a game changer.
I'm rooting for Shapiro. Kelly would be good, but it's probably more important to lock up Pennsylvania than reach for Arizona. And the fact that the far left hates Shapiro is a point in his favor.
I live in Minnesota - Tim Walz is not moderate in the least. When he served in Congress, he was moderate enough to get elected in a somewhat conservative House district; his folksy manner appealed to the majority of voters who vote mostly on personality. But when he became Governor, he went hard Left: 100% with the radical transgender agenda, abortion rights for all nine months, big tax increase to create new welfare programs, a slave to the state teachers union, etc. Before Biden dropped out, he declared that Biden was cognitively fit enough to serve another four year term - a blatant lie, and he knew it.
Who is the strongest electorally is not as important as who is qualified to be president if it becomes necessary. That will also avoid repeating the awkward situation the party is in now.
I agree that to improve her chances of winning the election Harris should moderate her positions. But putting a moderate spin on her history of far left policies to win an election, and actually implementing policies if elected that would achieve the stated goal of “bringing people together” are two different things.
I previously voted for a black woman who I thought could do that — Condoleezza Rice. And this time around I’ll also write- in a rational person rejected by the extremists that dominate both major parties.
One thing to keep in mind is that voters nationally don't know who any of these people are. That's what I think gives someone like Beshear an advantage. In their eyes, he would be a Democrat who would be a Democrat who won Kentucky, a deep-red state filled with hillbillies, rednecks, and coal miners. It would be a strong signal to swing/undecided voters that Kamala is willing to move to the center.
It wouldn't necessarily just be an aesthetic either. Democrats in Kentucky and much of Appalachia have been operating outside of mainstream liberal orthodoxy for a long time and Beshear would likely surround himself with these kinds of people both during a Harris-Beshear campaign and a potential future Harris-Beshear administration. An infusion of people whose political survival has been dependent on winning the votes of non-college-educated working class white voters at the top of the Democratic Party could be a game changer.