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Kamala Sticks the Landing
Tim Walz was the right choice for Harris’s Veep. He is a straight, white, Christian man with no presidential ambitions. He doesn’t rile up the “replacement theory” bozos, and he doesn’t threaten the President wannabes, who can now safely support the ticket. He is a very solid citizen whom everyone seems to like, because he is a very solid citizen.
I watched the rally in Philadelphia. It was at Temple University, in the heart of mostly black north Philadelphia. Governor Shapiro gave a stem-winder introduction of the ticket. It was too long for me, but I was home watching on TV. Being there may have been different. He certainly had his mojo working.
Harris/Walz is doing a lot of things right. First, they are not attacking Trump’s voters. That’s the mistake Hillary made. There was no reason to mention the “deplorables.” The voters are a politician’s customers, and the customer is always right. Sometimes, the customers need more information so that their right answer is the politician’s right answer, but that’s the politician’s job. Insulting voters is wrong. The insults may be deserved, but deploying them is always a mistake.
The ticket is rightly focusing its attention on swing states. People complain about how the electoral college creates swing states, as if that’s a bad thing, but I disagree. I think swing states are microcosms. What’s good for the union workers in Michigan is good for the union workers in New Jersey. The latter are…