Amy Davidson Sorkin on Kamala Harris’s potential candidates for Vice-President, including Mark Kelly, Roy Cooper, Josh Shapiro, and Andy Beshear.
Any V.P. choice involves weighing factors such as readiness, regional balance, and demographics. Harris is a fifty-nine-year-old woman from California; she is Black and South Asian . The person she chooses will be squaring up directly against Trump’s running mate, Senator J. D. Vance, of Ohio. And, thanks to the Twelfth Amendment, it can’t be someone who, like Harris, is a Californian, unless the Democrats want to give up that state’s electoral votes—so Governor Gavin Newsom is out.
It might have been a thrilling, mobilizing first, especially after the tedious displays of cartoonish masculinity at the Republican National Convention, earlier this month. Whitmer is tough, too, and, having been the target of a kidnapping plot, can speak to the threat of political violence. Still, Whitmer, who is only fifty-two, could be a contender in 2028 or 2032. Meanwhile, she will co-chair Harris’s campaign. Governor Andy Beshear State: Kentucky Vance, in his acceptance speech at the R.N.
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