Vice president Kamala Harris is expected to pick his running mate next week—the latest step in the Democratic Party’s newly energized effort to retain the White House in November.
In the days since President Joe Biden has withdrawn from the race and endorsed Harris instead, political commentator class And Everyday Americans have made their predictions about who will join the historic 2024 Democratic field. The Harris campaign is expected to announce its vice presidential pick on Tuesday. The duo will make their first stop of their combined campaign in Philadelphia, before visiting seven swing states over four days, according to Politics“Harris plans to interview potential vice presidential candidates in the coming days,” the newspaper reported earlier this week; when asked if she had made her choice, Harris replied, “not yet.”
Before Biden dropped out of the race, people began to question who Harris should choose as her running mate, with many suggesting that both of them would be better. joking and it’s not that she would choose a white man—an assumption that has attracted backlash from those who wonder why another person women or people of color cannot join the team.
In the middle of last week, Harris’s team reported request check materials from several top Democrats, including the Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Governor of Illinois JB Pritzker, United States Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro, and Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz. Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer and Governor of North Carolina Roy Cooper was previously considered, but both have since been keep your head down.
While other Democrats outside this list could theoretically be nominated, three potential candidates are currently the frontrunners: Kelly, Shapiro and Walz.
Senator Mark Kelly
Elected to the Senate for the first time in a 2020 special election, Kelly is a Navy veteran and former astronaut from the Grand Canyon state.
Choosing Kelly would mean a heavily West Coast ticket. However, the senator has direct experience working on immigration policy from a border state. Plus, his past win with Latino voters could help protect that bloc. Kelly is also a vocal supporter of access to abortion, and more recently has converted his stance and support for pro-union legislation.
Long before he ran for office, Kelly stood next to his wife, former U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords, After she survive an assassination in 2011 left Six people died and several were injured. Kelly’s experience supporting a powerful woman in office could serve him well as a running mate for Harris, who has had to face deeply racist and misogynistic attacks from the far right. According to recent vote In the vice presidential race, Kelly was the best known and most highly regarded.
After Harris’s campaign announcement, Kelly to shared about X that he believes she is the candidate to defeat the former president Donald Trump, “Gabby and I will do everything we can to elect her President of the United States,” Kelly added. When asked about his position on the vice presidential team, speak that “it’s none of my business”.
Governor Josh Shapiro
As Pennsylvania attorney general in the 2020 election cycle, Shapiro many times—and successfully—fought lawsuits filed by Trump and his legal team after he lost the state to Biden. “I went to court against Donald Trump 43 times and won every time because I focused on the law and focused on applying the law without fear or favor,” Shapiro said. speak New York magazine earlier this year.
