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Harris is starting to vet potential running mates. Her initial list includes nearly a dozen names

apnews.com Harris is starting to vet potential running mates. Her initial list includes nearly a dozen names

Vice President Kamala Harris is beginning to vet about a dozen possible candidates to be her running mate as she approaches one of most consequential decisions of her new presidential candidacy.

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We should be getting someone in their 40s to groom them for their own presidential run.

But short term Kelly is the smart choice. An astronaut from Arizona is a no brainer.

I know nothing about his politics, but just from the optics of being an astronaut and his home state, he's the smart pick.

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- He also has a twin brother who is also an astronaut, that means double the campaigning and no one will know! /s
  
  For real though, Kelly would probably be a great choice, if nothing more than because his politics are at least okay, and his career hopefully makes it really really hard for Republicans to criticize him.
  
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  How cool would it be to have twin astronauts as Prez and VP?
  
  Just think of the twinanigans!
  
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- I really don't like that Kelly worked with Joe Manchin to attack the environment - https://web.archive.org/web/20240710182356/https://www.eenews.net/articles/manchin-kelly-urge-biden-to-open-new-gulf-oil-leasing/
  
  Out of all the likely names I've seen, Roy Cooper (well liked governor from a swing state) seems like the one with the fewest turds on his record. He made some rough pro-Israel statements in October, but when progressives in his state complained he met with them and started stressing the need to protect Palestinian civilians after that (who had just gone entirely unmentioned in his first statements).
  
  e; ftr, either way I'm voting for Harris
  
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  Welp, that fucking sucks...
  
  But hey, if he's the VP he gets taken out of the Senate and replaced...
  
  So if anything I'd say that's more of a reason to make him vp lol.
  
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- Not to mention, his wife was a politician who survived an assassination attempt - she was shot in the head and had to relearn a lot of basic tasks. Takes a bit of the wind out of Trumps sails on that front.
  
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- I wouldn't mind an astronaut. At all. He'd probably kick our space program in the ass and we can finally get that moon base done.
  
  I read that most people that go up there, after they come back, their entire worldview changes from what they thought before, and all petty human issues become meaningless. You finally realize how precious life on Earth is, and how small we are. It's a documented phenomenon.
  
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  I don't know if he's ever been to space. Most astronauts never go.
  
  It's one of those "right place, right time" things.
  
  Even if you'd be the best astronaut ever you need a mission to happen that requires your subject matter in a very short window.
  
  Still undeniable badasses
  
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- I dislike this VP->President pipeline it's deeply undemocratic... we should stop making that a thing.
  
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  I mean, the VP does still have to win elections to get there, it's not really undemocratic in that regard, there's no garuntee. And it probably gives more relevant experience to the position than just about any other job
  
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  Better than father -> son or husband -> wife
  
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Seems like a good list of people who don't fuck couches.

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- Someone have the list?
  
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Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung was asked by reporters during a rally on Wednesday whether the former president has said anything about Harris’ possible running mate.

“There is a short list of governors and senators. They are all interchangeable,” Cheung said. “It doesn’t matter.”

Imagine being this flippant about your job to try and defeat another political party in an election. "Yeah I don't care who she picks we're running the same hate campaign either way."

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She should pick Biden. Then nobody has to replace their bumper stickers.

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- But they need to sell bumper stickers to fund the campaign!
  
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