Gov Shapiro, Gov Whitmire, Sen Kelly. The first two probably get their state off the contested map. I don't know if Kelly can deliver AZ.
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As far as I've heard, nobody seems to hate Shapiro. Of course, they only vote red in rural PA, but in-betweeners would likely side with him.
Someone suggested Mark Kelley.
I am all for space VP
If nice things were capable of happening it would be Rashida Tlaib, but they aren't so it won't be
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Did you just ask for Biden to be VP??? Sooooo, Harris is now president, and Biden is the VP???
Fine, I’ll do it.
Still badass veteran and working mother, Junior Senator from Illinois, Tammy Duckworth!
Buttegieg seems like a real straight-shooter
Actually, he's a real gay-shooter.
As you recently said, I "vigorously disagree".
Dude is literally a CIA/McKinsey operative. Do you also think that corrupt corporatists Neera Tanden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer are also excellent?
Can you fill me in on the info about Pete being a CIA operative?
He was a McKinsey operative that was sent to Afghanistan for reasons that just so happens to also be a high ranking member of the Air Force. It’s basically impossible that he WASN’T working with the CIA when he was sent to Afghanistan as a military-affiliated McKinsey representative.
If you’re still confused or doubtful about this connection, you should know that CIA agents aren’t always getting into gun fights and car chases like in movies. They are also part of setting up puppet governments like Afghanistan and assassinating rulers who won’t play ball.
Read Confessions of an Economic Hitman to find out what CIA does around the world in partnership with the world bank and a cadre of US corporations.
I’m failing to see a problem with any of that.
If you fail to see a problem with the US meddling with political violence, setting up puppet governments around the world, quashing populist movements, you have absolutely no moral compass much like CIA agent Pete Buttigieg.
I think you either have unrealistic expectations, a lack of understanding of history, a lack of understanding of how the US economy has worked for 80 years, or possibly all of the above.
I think you are utterly programmed, insipid, and morally bankrupt.
The only way you wouldn’t have a problem with any of this is if you literally work as a government contractor, making weapons that liquify innocent children.
Have a great day tech bro. Karma is a real thing.
ISWYDT
Stacey Abrams managed to flip Georgia, and has a similar background (legal) and views as Harris... They'd probably make an awesome team.
Whichever one is willing to say ceasefire now.
Someone that can speak to/for the swing states.
obama
Sadly, he's ineligible, because if she died he'd be president again.
Michele Obama is eligible. His daughters aren't just yet.
you can't be elected president twice but you can hold the office more than twice.
Not really, at best it’s legally debatable but I feel like the 12th and 22nd amendments make it pretty clear.
12th says if you’re ineligible for president, you’re ineligible for VP And 22nd says you can’t be elected more than twice.
you know I did not look at the 12th. michelle is fine then.
You were correct if it goes the other way round, you start as a Veep who takes over.
I'd love Michelle but she can't pull the swing states. Let's elect Kamala and then put Michelle in the SCOTUS. Barack too, why not? Get some work out of those two fine minds.
Either of them, honestly
yup
Gretchen Whitmer but my parents are still wishing for Klobuchar to get somewhere in WH proximity so I'll mention her too.
Jayapal would be hilarious just for how thoroughly a fuck you it would be to the far right to have two WoC on the ticket and then for them to go on and win.
Trump does so good in the debate it backfires and achieves an entirely new level of the kind of social advancement that he rode the backlash into office on in the first place XD.
Patton Oswalt did a bit while back that called trump the "racist's pallette cleanser" after Obama, and honestly I think he might have been onto something. Racists got loud and yelled for 8 years with Obama, and Patton's thought is that they rallied for one last hoopla and got Trump elected. That it was needed for this one last racist brigade before we finally normalized PoC and women in the White House.
I think it also woke us up to the fact that they're still here, and they need to be shunned. Loudly.
Forget shunning, I say get the baseball bats out and stop pretending they need anything but percussive maintenance on their obviously misfiring cranium.
I would love Amy Klobuchar but you know they aren't going to do a double women ticket. Same logic against Gretchen Whitmer. I want MN governor Tim Walz but I haven't heard his name mentioned anywhere.
Cooper because he brings NC's electoral votes and helps keep a Trumpy person out of the governor's mansion. His political positions are bleh, but Harris is young and should something happen to her Cooper is a decent human and would make a decent president.
Cooper also has experience dealing with gerrymandered bad-faith Republican supermajority, so I don't think he'll be interested in playing the compromise game.
On the downside, he's relatively unknown on the national stage.
On the upside, it's a natural progression, he served as governor for a full term and the timing is right to move on to the next political field.
To add to your points, he's a democrat who won the same exact elections in a state that Trump also won both times, a state that simultaneously elected republican supermajorities and a republican lieutenant governor while still electing him. A straight white southern man who is about as nonthreatening to GOP sensibilities as you can get without actually being a republican.
AOC or Abrams
Big Gretch
Is Philomena Cunk eligible?
Corey Booker or Raphael Warnock seem like they could bring a helpful calming demeanor, though I think the tickets have historical been the other way around, with the VP being more of the attacker.
I want Tim Walz for VP. He's an older white governor from a swing state. He's been leading some good progressive policies here in MN but has a small rural area background. He was a representative for rural southern MN for a while and has a good wholesome background as a teacher. He has two years left as a governor here in MN but our Lt. Governor is awesome so we would be happy to have her lead as well.
Sam Seder for sure.