Official Kamala Harris VP Thread

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How has this not leaked?? Don’t know whether to be more annoyed or impressed!

Not leaking is the sign of a professional and serious operation. Why would you be annoyed? Do you want our government to be run by a bunch of backstabbing leakers?

The only reason I want this to be announced is that we can stop all the infighting.

I really hope that some of the anti-Shapiro posts are trolls because I hate to think these anti-Semitic are written by fellow Democrats. we can all have our opinion on who we like best and for what reason without being anti-Semitic.

The reality is that there is horrible antisemitism on both sides of the aisle. This is not the moment to take that (losing?) battle on imo. You can’t fix deeply entrenched biases in 90 days. Especially when the candidate already shot him self in the foot on a hot-button topic.

BoTH sIdEs

on the left, it is fringe Pro-Palestinian people.
on the right, it is the elected GOP and the deplorables

Don’t lie to yourself. It’s not just fringe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How has this not leaked?? Don’t know whether to be more annoyed or impressed!

Not leaking is the sign of a professional and serious operation. Why would you be annoyed? Do you want our government to be run by a bunch of backstabbing leakers?

The only reason I want this to be announced is that we can stop all the infighting.

I really hope that some of the anti-Shapiro posts are trolls because I hate to think these anti-Semitic are written by fellow Democrats. we can all have our opinion on who we like best and for what reason without being anti-Semitic.

The reality is that there is horrible antisemitism on both sides of the aisle. This is not the moment to take that (losing?) battle on imo. You can’t fix deeply entrenched biases in 90 days. Especially when the candidate already shot him self in the foot on a hot-button topic.

BoTH sIdEs

on the left, it is fringe Pro-Palestinian people.
on the right, it is the elected GOP and the deplorables

Don’t lie to yourself. It’s not just fringe.

Correct. We have DC politicians discussing anti Semitic tropes. There is much more on the underbelly than we know, IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How has this not leaked?? Don’t know whether to be more annoyed or impressed!

Not leaking is the sign of a professional and serious operation. Why would you be annoyed? Do you want our government to be run by a bunch of backstabbing leakers?

The only reason I want this to be announced is that we can stop all the infighting.

I really hope that some of the anti-Shapiro posts are trolls because I hate to think these anti-Semitic are written by fellow Democrats. we can all have our opinion on who we like best and for what reason without being anti-Semitic.

For the last time NOT LIKING SHAPIRO DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE ANTISEMITIC

And continuing to ignore the valid criticism and gaslight is the opposite of what you claim to want.
And you know that.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion that includes not thinking Shapiro is a good choice without being called antisemitic.

Words have meaning and antisemitic doesn't mean questioning someone who is Jewish record the same way any other candidate for political office is.

So stop it

[Anonymous]

Since tonight's rally is in PA, I guess we assume the pick is Shapiro?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How has this not leaked?? Don’t know whether to be more annoyed or impressed!

Not leaking is the sign of a professional and serious operation. Why would you be annoyed? Do you want our government to be run by a bunch of backstabbing leakers?

The only reason I want this to be announced is that we can stop all the infighting.

I really hope that some of the anti-Shapiro posts are trolls because I hate to think these anti-Semitic are written by fellow Democrats. we can all have our opinion on who we like best and for what reason without being anti-Semitic.

For the last time NOT LIKING SHAPIRO DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE ANTISEMITIC

And continuing to ignore the valid criticism and gaslight is the opposite of what you claim to want.
And you know that.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion that includes not thinking Shapiro is a good choice without being called antisemitic.

Words have meaning and antisemitic doesn't mean questioning someone who is Jewish record the same way any other candidate for political office is.

So stop it

I'm concerned about Shapiro's stance on Gaza racism toward Palestinians and prefer Walz. However, it is also true that SOME criticism of Shapiro plays on hateful antisemitic stereotypes. Unfortunately these undermine and distract from valid criticism. Same is true of criticism fo Israel.

[Anonymous]

Friend has a theory that announcement will come at 11 or 12 to factor in time differences, and impede Vance’s speechwriters as much as possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How has this not leaked?? Don’t know whether to be more annoyed or impressed!

Because the people who know respect the process, the campaign, and take their jobs seriously.

Former Obama staffers have said that only 2-3 people knew the final choice. The information is held closely by the candidate.

But now we know we can’t trust you with anything.

[Anonymous]

Politico saying sometime this morning, different signs made because final decision not made as of yesterday evening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Since tonight's rally is in PA, I guess we assume the pick is Shapiro?

That’s one theory, could also be meaningless. Running mates rarely announced in their home state in the past.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone donate in order to get the “first announcement” text? I did last time around, but it leaked before the text came. We’ll see if that happens again.

I didn’t know that was a thing people would spend money on. Wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Politico saying sometime this morning, different signs made because final decision not made as of yesterday evening.

Does Walz have an official schedule? I assume someone could also track plane flights unless it's Airforce 2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How has this not leaked?? Don’t know whether to be more annoyed or impressed!

Not leaking is the sign of a professional and serious operation. Why would you be annoyed? Do you want our government to be run by a bunch of backstabbing leakers?

The only reason I want this to be announced is that we can stop all the infighting.

I really hope that some of the anti-Shapiro posts are trolls because I hate to think these anti-Semitic are written by fellow Democrats. we can all have our opinion on who we like best and for what reason without being anti-Semitic.

For the last time NOT LIKING SHAPIRO DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE ANTISEMITIC

And continuing to ignore the valid criticism and gaslight is the opposite of what you claim to want.
And you know that.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion that includes not thinking Shapiro is a good choice without being called antisemitic.

Words have meaning and antisemitic doesn't mean questioning someone who is Jewish record the same way any other candidate for political office is.

So stop it

PP here. Of course not liking Shapiro isn’t always antisemitic, I would say the majority are not. I’m not a Shapiro fan. I think he should rack up wins as a governor, figure out his stance on school vouchers ( a big negative for me) and run later. I also don’t think we need to have an attack dog. I love the joy Walz brings.

But you can’t discount that there are some people on this thread that are anti-Semitic. I hate that we went from so much joy to having this argument all over again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Since tonight's rally is in PA, I guess we assume the pick is Shapiro?

Not necessarily. PA is a swing state and someone upthread mentioned that the VP nom is always announced there. My memory isn’t good enough to recall whether that is true.

But no one will be surprised if it is Shapiro announced in PA today. Plenty of disappointment, but no surprise.

[Anonymous]

Politico has an interesting article about Walzmentum, saying 20 of 22 congressional Dems think it will be Walz. But Dem establishment wants Shapiro and doesn’t get the sudden fervor for Walz.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Politico has an interesting article about Walzmentum, saying 20 of 22 congressional Dems think it will be Walz. But Dem establishment wants Shapiro and doesn’t get the sudden fervor for Walz.

Of course the establishment doesn’t get it, typical. Meanwhile, 100K people showed up to the Progressives for Harris zoom. She ignores their goodwill at her peril.