WHO WILL BE SELECTED AS THE VEEP RUNNING MATE FOR KAMALA HARRIS?

 Yesterday I said that Democrats needed a miracle to stop Donald Trump.  

• Most miracles are quick, like Jesus walking on water.  This sudden and crucial turn of event for Democrats triggered by President Joe Biden deciding to drop out of the campaign, endorsing Kamala Harris, was key, but not the miracle.

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  This delivered prayer for Democrats is unfolding.
• The  universal support for Harris, with potential competitors quickly pledging to be at her side, plus strong sense of relief from freedom-inclined world leaders, has energized the Democratic Party, totaling changing the chemistry of the 2024 presidential election.  
• That margin of difference--the 5 to 10 percent of potential voters who can still be swayed--has definitely switched from the high that Donald Trump has enjoyed for a couple of weeks, back to Democrats.

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  The youth/age vote has totally reversed.  Now, Donald Trump is the old and decrepit candidate.
• Adding his confirmed status as felon and incessant lying, the savior status now held by Trump can quite easily be overcome, for he is a truly badly flawed candidate.

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  Lop on his Agenda47 and Project 2025, and you have most of the ammunition needed to make a difference.
• This miracle should continue to develop over the next few weeks leading up to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago from August 19 to 22.
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  However, timing will be everything, for a couple of states send out mail ballots for the November 5 election on September 5, and the majority by the end of September.  So what you might hear from newscasters about that being 106 days away is true, but also not.
• So the miracle itself, if it comes, will occur, or not, after the electoral votes are determined following election day.
• This miracle will decide whether America remains a Democracy, or sinks into an Authoritarian Dictatorship.

So the immediate next question is who Harris will choose as her Veep running mate.  To be brutally frank:

• Cannot be another female.
• Cannot be Black.
• Should be a high ranking and known White male, preferably from one of those midwest battleground states, or eastern seaboard.

For those reasons.

• Eliminate Michigan Governor Gretchan Whitmer for being of the wrong gender.
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  Eliminate California Governor Gavin Newsom for being from California.
• Eliminate Maryland Governor Wes Moore for being black.
• Eliminate Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for being gay.

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  Mildly consider 60-year old Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, for Arizona is a battleground state, Nevada is close by and he could help on immigration and gun control.  But he might already be too old, a Republican could take his Senate seat and Harris has the West largely covered anyway.
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  Mildly consider 46-year old Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear for being young and attractive.  But small state and too Republican, so maybe not.  His father was state governor in 2007 and 2011.

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  Consider 67-year old North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, for North Carolina has become a battleground state.  While older than the others, he would be a good transition veep who will not run for president in 2028, and certainly not 2032, but provides some needed maturity to the team.

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  Consider 51-year old Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, for Pennsylvania is a key state, and he would insure for these electoral votes.  They've known each other for two decades, as both have been prosecutors.  Being Jewish might well not be as helpful because a standard White American male would  be a better match for Harris.
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  Consider 59-year old Illinois Governor JB Pritzker for being from a battleground state, a billionaire and experienced at attacking Donald Trump.  For example, he just said after Biden chose not to run:

Donald Trump is a 34 time convicted felon, adjudicated to have committed sexual assault, a racist, homophobe and misogynist. Trump brags about taking away a woman’s right to choose, wants to rip healthcare away from tens of millions of people, proposes economic policies that will cost the middle class thousands of dollars a year, and threatens the fundamental American ideals we hold dear.

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  This won't happen, but an intriguing candidate is 46-year old former Congressman Adam Kinzinger, a Republican, who now is a political commentator for CNN.  Is from a battleground state, would be a terror against Trump and a transitional veep for the purposes of this election cycle.  Air Force officer who served in Iran and Afghanistan.  Was ranked as the 40th most bipartisan member of the House during the 114th Congress.  What will sink Trump is Trump himself.  Kinzinger can go all out in this role.  Harris and others can talk policy.  Served on the Select Committee to investigate the 6January2021 Capitol attack and was quoted say:

During a September 5, 2021, interview on CNN's State of the Union, Kinzinger said his party "desperately needs to tell the truth", that if the party pushes lies and conspiracy theories, it does not deserve to win Congressional majorities in the 2022 elections, that if they were "going to be in charge and pushing conspiracy, pushing division, and pushing lies, then the Republican Party should not have the majority", and that it "is a pretty scary place to go in this world if we start using our power as a way to get the outcome that we want" in elections.^[63]

Oh, one more thing about Joe Biden.  He will still remain very important, and provide the total freedom for Harris to campaign, using her current role as vice president to build up her credentials and power.  He can now also go after Donald Trump as he couldn't have if were still a  candidate.  She will more and more get major roles in domestic and international affairs, while he maintains administrative stability.  Can't ask for any more ideal circumstances.

Tropical Storm Gaemi has become a typhoon, and models now show this storm making a direct hit over the middle of Taiwan as a Category 2 late tomorrow night into Wednesday.  Then, on to Quanzhou, China early Thursday.

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