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(NewsNation) — The Hill White House columnist Niall Stanage joined “NewsNation Now” to sermon the choices Vice President Kamala Harris has for a moving mate successful the 2024 statesmanlike race.
Stanage said the U.S. is presently seeing a “public audition for the relation of Vice President Harris’ moving mate.” Harris is expected to denote her prime soon, arsenic she and her prime volition question to seven cardinal battleground states adjacent week, according to her campaign.
One of the apical contenders is reportedly Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly. Stanage said that Kelly would beryllium a bully prime for Harris due to the fact that of her nexus to the Biden administration’s weakness connected the taxable of immigration.
“He would neutralize 1 of Vice President Harris’ biggest weaknesses,” Stanage said. “He demonstrated a much visceral knowing of wherefore voters are acrophobic astir that topic.”
Another contender being floated is Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who was elected successful 2022. Stanage told “NewsNation Now” that Shapiro’s precocious support standing successful Pennsylvania, 1 of the battleground states successful this election, could beryllium a “massive payment to him and a monolithic imaginable plus to the Harris campaign.”
However, Shapiro’s pro-Israel stance could wounded his chances.
“He’s been precise captious of immoderate of the pro-Palestinian protests, and if helium were chosen, I deliberation we could expect to spot immoderate radical connected the Left of the Democratic Party explicit a batch of disenchantment,” Stanage said.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has besides been a precise fashionable prime connected Democratic societal media adjacent though, according to Stanage, Minnesota volition astir apt ballot for the Democratic Party anyway, truthful determination could beryllium much “exciting” choices for Harris.
“With Gov. Walz, the thought is that you person this purportedly reassuring older achromatic feline connected a summons with a pistillate who is seeking to go the archetypal Black pistillate president,” Stanage said.
