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In reply to the discussion: It's not going to be Shapiro. There are many people who will say his Judaism and Zionism is political suicide right now [View all]JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)VP Harris. Did anyone listen to her speech on the middle east?
Those same young people who are calling President Biden "genocide joe", are going to feel the same way about a President Harris. The reality is a large percentage of those protesters do not think Israel should exist.
The comment, "Democrats are going to lose the young people's vote if she chooses a Jewish VP", is comparable to those who are saying if Pete Buttigieg is chosen, we will lose also.
President Obama would have never been President as the first African American President if we listened to the argument made by some.
In 2000, and more so 2016, we were so afraid of losing because of the greens and those on the far left, that we opened the door to Cornell West, and other non-Democrats to be on the DNC rules committee. That worked out real. After Hillary won the nomination, Cornell West immediately left and endorsed Jill Stein. That was shortly followed by Nina Turner, David SIrota, Brihana Joy Gray, etc., all who had prominent positions as part of the challengers' campaign for the Democratic nomination to proclaim they would not vote for the Democratic nominee in 2016.
When you start playing that game, you will get bogged down playing both sides, and no one will be happy.
According to the polls there are as many as 5-10% supporting rfk jr. With that logic I guess we need to appeal to the anti-vaxer, conspiracy laden community.
Anyone who refuses to vote for VP Harris because of her choice of VP, is voting for trump. It is as simple as that.
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