Election 2024 Part III: Out with the old!
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Klaus Hergersheimer
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KMRblue1027
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He's a Midwestern progressive that knows how to speak to people. It's a great pick.
EnglishEdward
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OK, now who left out the horns ?
Lexicus
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That's the nightman, the titular character of The Nightman Cometh. He doesn't have horns.
EnglishEdward
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Haven't seen that.
I share your suspicion that Biden's withdrawal timeline contained a clever trap.
Klaus Hergersheimer
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OK. I imagine I'll hear more about him; I just didn't think a guy who looks like Bernie Sanders sends jitters down anyone's spine but we'll see...As I said before I thought Josh Shapiro would've been safer but I guess Harris feels she already has this one locked up.
edit later sorry: BTW, "midwest progressive" to me is simply "he's got support in Minneapolis/St Paul". That may be good enough but I doubt folks from Iowa are falling all over him or something.
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What makes you think Shapiro would be safer?
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Walz seems much more of a progressive. I thought Shapiro was going to be the pick for sure so this is a bit of a surprise to me. Picking Tim Walz seems like the closest feasible to picking Bernie Sanders without just picking Bernie Sanders. The enthusiasm for Walz is really encouraging. I was a little worried that Shapiro was going to be seen as too much of a safe pick/compromise.
Narz
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Reading up, so far so good
Altho it goes on to say he didn't put his vote where his mouth was
Lexicus
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I think Pelosi orchestrated the whole thing tbh, mad respect for her right now
KMRblue1027
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I said this I think last thread you can call her many names but politically stupid isn't one if them. She's one if the most efficient politicians of the last 40 years
Hopefully Walz will bring WI and MI along with MN.
Ziggy Stardust
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Who, who who who
Klaus Hergersheimer
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A Josh Shapiro pick [as I predicted but was wrong] would not have been a compromise so much as a broadening of the base and get people interested. I suppose a "compromise" would have been Harris picking some registered Republican. For we now have both candidates whose VPs do absolutely nothing for them other than encourage the people who are going to vote for them anyway.
btw, you would be correct, as Bernie Sanders has been advocating for Walz in recent days:
Shapiro speaking opening up for Harris-Walz to Philly crowd... just dropped a cussword. He's pretty fired up 
... chanelling Obama as usual.
Apparently Walz was essentially handpicked by Bernie, is the rumor.
... chanelling Obama as usual.Apparently Walz was essentially handpicked by Bernie, is the rumor.
GoodEnoughForMe
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Walz is a more astute politician and media presence. He’s a good communicator and comes off as less fake than most politicians. He also understands political capital is meant to be spent. Think those - and him helping jump start calling Republicans weird - mattered more than actual ideology. And the fact that Shapiro apparently bombed the interview with Harris.
amadeus
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I’d like to reiterate the geographic strategy of VP picks has not been statistically proven, and I imagine even less so in neighboring states.
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