No surprises...

[brooklynite]

According to CNN’s Jamie Gangel, these are the names Kamala Harris is considering to pick as her running mate:

-Arizona Senator Mark Kelly
-Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear
-NC Governor Roy Cooper
-Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro

[LexVegas]

1. I like all of those options. nt

[Claustrum]

2. Sensible and predictable. Any of them would be great choices.

[maveric]

3. Where's Pete Buttigeg?

Not for consideration?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. absolutely not

[maveric]

13. Why not?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

14. He brings us nothing, alienates Black voters, and didn't acquit himself exactly flawlessly as transportation secretary.

[DemonGoddess]

4. the most practical

choice is Governor Cooper. He terms out in January.

[Takket]

11. I know NC is a state the Dems saw as the most likely to flip too

If Cooper can deliver NC then Harris could lose up to 49 EVs elsewhere and still win the election. Drumpf would have to flip Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan and that would make a 269-269 tie if everything else stayed the same (which would give him the win in the house sorry to say) but still that is a HUGE ask for drumpf to flip all three of those states.

[TwilightZone]

5. Kelly is tough because we need that Senate seat.

Any of them would be excellent choices, though.

[kimbutgar]

6. My pic would be Andy Beshear democratic twice elected governor in a red state

He knows how to communicate with southerners and is being termed limited out. Mark Kelly would have to be replaced and they’d have to have a special election and we need to keep that seat in the senate. And due to the underlying racist hate of the repuke party, a black woman and Jewish man on a ticket might be too hard for some of them to take. And I don’t know enough about Roy Cooper to make an opinion.

[Ocelot II]

7. All good people.

[dalton99a]

9. .

[bucolic_frolic]

12. The boys in blue /nt

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Shapiro's rapidly developing talents would be wasted as VP

Of that group, Beshear and Cooper are the best choices. We can't burn a sitting Senate seat in AZ. We may not get it back.

[OneGrassRoot]

15. Would you please explain your thoughts about Shapiro? Thx n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

16. Could you be more specific?

[OneGrassRoot]

17. That his talents would be wasted as VP. n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

18. He wouldn't have power. As Governor, he has duties and uses his office to execute them.

VP to some extent still, sit and wait. Kamala was given more duties this year. It had to be explicitly stated, in a press release. We remember our presidents. VP's not so much. I think Shapiro is developing on his own, Pennsylvania, track. By that I mean this idea has arose over the last few years, surrounding the State PA Supreme Court debacles, that PA is very important, more so than the other states, because PA's Constitution pre-dates the US Constitution. Our laws go a little further back, and perhaps deeper (I'm no legal scholar) into English common law. The Continental Congress met in Philadelphia. PA has a thing to two to teach about original intent, the origins of legal rulings.

It would be a shame to keep Josh Shapiro bottled up for 4 or 8 years. He has brilliant skills, far wider in vision than most any politician. Washington political culture will stymie growth.

[OneGrassRoot]

19. Excellent insight. Thx! n/t

[Cherrycheeks]

20. Bashear