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I don't think a VP pick turns the election, but a VP pick is incredibly important,
said the American University professor Kamala Harris is too afraid to answer media questions and cannot lead us in these troubled times,
Vance charged in a social media post on Monday These are weird people on the other side. They want to take books away. They want to be in your exam room. That's what it comes down to. Don't, you know, get sugarcoating this. These are weird ideas,
Walz told MSNBC last month during an interview The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him,
advised Niccolo Machiavelli in The Prince For each individual among the many has a share of virtue and prudence, and when they meet together, they become in a manner one man."
In his Politics, Aristotle emphasized the role of collective wisdom in governance I didn’t do this against a slow field. I did this against the best of the best, on the biggest stage with the biggest pressure,
He risks significantly depressing enthusiasm for the Harris ticket among key constituencies of young voters, Arab and Muslim voters, and to some degree labor,
he wrote in an email thread, which was shared with The New York Times Why Josh Shapiro should not be the VP.”
An organizer called for calm and rebranded the email chain My background is a bit different than most politicians.”
The governor's trip was planned several weeks ago and included several fundraisers for his own campaign committee. His schedule has changed and he is no longer traveling to the Hamptons this weekend."
His press secretary, Manuel Bonder, previously told Newsweek I'm hearing from Philly Democratic Party members at their weekly luncheon today that Josh Shapiro is going to be Kamala Harris's VP pick and that local unions pulled for him. Apparently, her campaign is trying to get Wall Street to pour more money before announcing him."
In a post to X, formerly Twitter, he said I think the fact that she's willing and able to do this many events in a small amount of time is something that can make a real difference, especially when we're less than a hundred days out"
If you can get 10,000 people to share that they trust Kamala Harris, that has an impact as a form of media and communication in and of itself,
Age really does matter” when it comes to a candidate’s ability to commit to long campaign trips
said Amanda Renteria, who was the national political director for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign In this cycle, President Trump has by far visited more battleground states, held more rallies, held more fundraisers, done more interviews and engaged with local reporters,
Cheung said of Trump, who launched his campaign more than a year and a half before Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris can’t even give a simple media interview since she was anointed the Democrat nominee,
I think she's making a point of her relative youth and vitality,
said Bill Galston, a Brookings Institution fellow and official in President Bill Clinton's administration They're all holding up their phones, and they're all publishers,
It is amazing what candidates can do when they’re traveling around, and you don’t know what time it is, and you don’t know what day it is, but everyone’s in it,
There must be a policy correction on Gaza and there must be a pro-working class policy agenda, including a Black agenda,
said Nina Turner, co-chair of Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign and a fellow at The Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy, a progressive research group