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What Trump can learn about picking a vice president from Kamala Harris

By Elaine Mallon
May 9, 2024 1:32 pm

With the Republican National Convention two months away, Donald Trump is honing in on his choice for a running mate, but political scientists suggest that picking a candidate in an effort to win over key voting groups may not be the best strategy — just look at Vice President Kamala Harris. 

Trump’s strategists have a variety of approaches when it comes to who Trump should pick for his vice president, according to the Wall Street Journal. Some suggest that Trump should pick a running mate that will win over black and Hispanic voters. Other advisers say Trump should pick someone who will appeal to swing-state voters, and some say Trump should pick a candidate not directly involved in the Republican Party in an effort to strengthen his “outsider image.”

However, political scientists Christopher Devine and Kyle Kopko suggest in their 2020 book Do Running Mates Matter? that choosing a vice president has just a small influence on key voter groups and fails to have a lasting effect on voters’ decisions. Devine and Kopko said research shows having a vice presidential candidate on the ticket from a state the presidential candidate wasn’t expected to win did little to change that outcome.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/2997890/what-trump-can-learn-picking-vice-president-from-kamala/

I'll be heading to the polls in November before Trump's many, many, many trials are resolved.

No big whoop.

Like Covid-19 exposed cracks in our healthcare and economic systems and institutions, Trump's many, many, many trials have exposed America's justice system's corruption and injustice.  There's one legal system for rich and powerful people; there's a different legal system for the rest of us.

Trump is blessed with a psycho-pathic genius for identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities and weakness.  It's not Trump's fault that our public institutions are flush with corrupt, weak, cowardly, and inept officials.

Trump is not the disease; he is the symptom letting us know how infirm our system of Government and Justice have become.

Have said for years, our government is more a present danger to our freedoms than any foreign power.

Crazy thought....   I can remember much of my childhood and early adulthood was in Cold War mode,  fearing USSR Communism.   Who'd ever dream it would end up being an inside job.

I can smell this image ...

Same here.  Very specific and unique smell.  Wonder what percent of caps were used in guns?.  Most of mine met their fate with a rock or hammer.