Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has narrowed her search for a vice presidential running mate to two finalists, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, three sources with knowledge of the matter said on Monday.

Harris, the U.S. vice president, is expected to announce her selection by Tuesday, ahead of her first scheduled public appearance with her running mate in the evening at Temple University in Philadelphia.

  • @CaptainKickass
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    1035 months ago

    Walz has Bernie’s seal of approval

    That’s all I need to know

    • qprimed
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      355 months ago

      indeed. Bernie remains a reasonably clean and reasonably clear assessor/signaler. he makes complex political decisions that much easier for voters.

      going to miss the golden yardstick of his judgment when he finally bows out.

      • @CaptainKickass
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        45 months ago

        Unfortunately we’ll probably never see the likes of him again

        • @[email protected]
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          15 months ago

          Warren is also excellent and we have a number of less popular policy wonk politicians around who are extremely driven on specific topics - Whitehouse, as an example, is excellent on climate change.

      • @[email protected]
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        -245 months ago

        My sole problem is Bernie as the Oprah of politics. He enabled quite a few people/trolls who were pretty toxic, the worst of the Bernie Bro/Chapo Trap House dirtbag movement, Briahna Joy Gray, and David Sirota off the top of my head.

            • @Anamnesis
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              -25 months ago

              So your objection is with fans of the podcast legitimately calling Warren a snake for withholding her endorsement until after Biden had solidified the Dems against the left? I can’t agree with that; it was a fuckup on her part and if she was a real left wing politician she would be have thrown her support behind someone who actually believes in what she says she stands for, rather than waiting until the moderates in the party had a fait accompli. I’ve never forgiven her for that.

                • @Anamnesis
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                  -15 months ago

                  What else is there? The rest is just civility handwringing.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    25 months ago

                    Interesting choice to defend at minimum their homophobic attacks against the first openly gay candidate as “civility handwringing”.

    • @MagicCuboid
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      35 months ago

      My friends in Minneapolis are pretty enamored with Walz. I don’t think they’d be thrilled to have to share him haha

    • @Rapidcreek
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      -375 months ago

      Bernie never won a national race.

      • @ganksy
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        335 months ago

        True but not because he wasn’t the best candidate

        • @Rapidcreek
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          -335 months ago

          That obviously is a minority opinion.

          • @Riccosuave
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            75 months ago

            I appreciate the irony of you getting ratio’d with this comment 😂

            • @Rapidcreek
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              -125 months ago

              The truth gets ratio all the time here. It’s so easy to rattle the chain of Bernie believers.

              • @Jtotheb
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                95 months ago

                Again, Bernie Sanders is very much a real person