Maybe so. Even if she knows this, she still has to go through the motions because it can’t look like she snubbed him.
I’m not necessarily confident that it’s not happening, but if he gets selected it’s because he and his allies have made a really rock-solid case on how to proactively sell it during the roll-out.
I am confident it’s not going to be the bold “pick JD Vance without any real vetting and then find out later what’s wrong with him after it’s either too late or too messy to do much about it” strategy no matter what.
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Oh, I 100% agree with this.
But if Democrats have seriously gotten competent over the last month or so (and they actually look like they have?), it’s not going to be Shapiro.
Another reason to not pick Shapiro:
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If she picks Walz, I just might start.
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I’m going to find it hard to be that broken up if it’s Shapiro. I do think that he should lock PA.
That’s a huge get. I don’t think he is going to tank MI and WI.
First of all, despite his rhetoric, at the end of the day his attitudes towards Israel aren’t that different from Biden or Kamala’s. Whoever the President is will keep supporting Israel almost no matter what.
Secondly, as VP his personal thoughts on what to do in Israel don’t even matter a little bit. That’s entirely Kamala. He might be in the room, but nobody gives a fuck what the VP thinks for the most part.
Third, who is going to launch the attacks? GOP can’t very well say look their guy supports genocide when they want to genocide even harder. I get that consistency and making sense are not their forte, but that seems like an especially tough sell. Also, since we’re past the primaries, there shouldn’t be much in the way of attacks from the left.
Still strongly prefer Walz.
The greatest shame is that if Walz were top of the ticket. I really do think he would crush Orange Man. The problem is that, as currently constructed, there was no viable way for him to have gotten to the top of the ticket in the Democratic Party, because lolDems.
I’m also pretty sure if Kamala loses and he throws his hat in to the ring in’28, he will take the early lead and probably get Bernied, because lolDems.
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I do agree that the extent to which picking Shapiro would be a real error has begun to get significantly overstated. It’s not what I’m rooting for, but it seems like the result would be that the loudest and most disappointed voices would have their say for no more than a few days and then something else would happen and would become the shiny new story of the race.
Remember when one of the candidates came within a near-miss of dying by assassination all of three weeks ago? That felt earth-shattering, and now it no longer feels like it has even a small impact on how people will vote in November. I just don’t see the inevitable outcry against Shapiro having the staying power needed to do long-term damage.
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Shapiro down to 55 on Polymarket, was 70+
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GOP can easily target ads at Dem voters who they think they can get to stay home because of it. The attacks don’t have to be coming from the GOP per se, they just need to be made and seen by the right demo.
O/U on people in this thread getting this?
4.5?
Lets find out.
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I mean honestly I didn’t even really get it aside from knowing it was from wrestling. It looks like Bull Buchanan’s body?
Lol, it does look like Buchanan. If you don’t get it my O/U is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too high.
Hint: Its one of the dumbest moments in the history of our sport, brother .
A reference from WCW after the point that anyone was still watching it is definitely a deep cut.
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Yeah, I thought it was him from when he was in Right To Censor.
Edit: I mean, shit, that is really close to the clothing and body type.
Is it even possible they could keep the choice under wraps until Tuesday?
I’m not even sure there’s a pretense that’s what they’re doing. Tuesday is just the first joint Harris/VP rally. I think there’s a minor chance we’ll see an announcement over social media tonight and that the most likely scenario is that we’ll know tomorrow. I would think they would want Tuesday’s rally attendees to know going in.
But admittedly I can’t really recall how these things got out relative to the first public appearance in prior cycles, especially just discounting any notion that 2020 is a meaningful data point.