Pete is most popular with independents and the base.
Pete is a lightning rod with earned media.
Pete can parachute into any red/rural area.
Why would anyone just ignore Pete from their analysis like this when heโs obviously being vetted seriously by the campaign?
Shapiro helps the most w/ the EC
Walz is a lightning rod for earned media
Beshear can parachute into any red/rural area
Kelly helps in AZ & can speak to immigration/gun control
Wish we could all agree that these are all excellent options instead of getting weirdly aggressive
Iโm sure Harris will make the best strategic Veep decision she can, and with much better data than we have.
But the data we do have says that Pete is the best choice along several criteria, and itโs strange to see people outright ignoring him in public veepstakes discussions.
VP Harrisโ main concern is how to win the Electoral College. Leaked internal White House polling data from 6/30/24 showed Pete Buttigieg could win the EC. (h/t
@chelswhitl
) Buttigieg wins every other poll Iโve seen of swing states since then too.
#Pete4Veep
#ButtigiegHarris2024
Andy Beshear seems like the smart choice. Mayor Pete seems like the bad ass choice.
Iโm going to be flexible, practical, and supportive through Election Day, no matter what. I just want to win and I trust Harris.
I'm not going to hold you: but if she's going to pick someone
@SecretaryPete
has my support too. Black, Brown, Women, and LGBTQ+ can come together and win this thing.
Itโs Jill Steinโs fault that Trump got elected in 2016. Sheโs not a Green Party warrior. Sheโs a Russian agitprop operation designed to interfere in US elections.
Here she is dining with Putin and Michael Flynn. This is what she does when sheโs not running for president.
Thereโs a truly stupid story circulating that Walz โabandoned his troopsโ when he retired from the National Guard after 24 years.
First, you canโt just quit the military with two weeksโ notice. You have to fulfill your contract time.
Secondโฆ๐งต
Tim Walz abandoned his unit before they deployed to Iraq.
On September 10th, 2005 conditionally promoted Command Sergeant Major Walz was reduced to Master Sergeant. It took a while for the system to catch up to him as it was uncharted territory, literally no one quits in the
If I had written an article in 2016 headlined โWhy Liberals Should Support a Trump Republican Nomination,โ I would simply be too embarrassed to speak about what Democrats need to do ever again.
Walz probably won't hurt Harris much, if at all. But it's a missed opportunity to claim the middle, and she needs to do that to turn a coin-flip election into a safe one.