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democrattotheend

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8. MAGA will attack either way
Mon Aug 5, 2024, 11:03 PM
Aug 2024

We've just heard more attack points against Shapiro because he's the frontrunner. Sadly, they've set it up now so that if she doesn't pick Shapiro, it's going to be seen as her caving to the left flank and snubbing him by doing the first rally in Philadelphia (even though that venue was set before she decided). They are also going to paint it as a snub to Jewish voters and "proof" that the Democratic Party has become pro-Hamas and what not. Which is dumb, because Shapiro has been as critical of Netanyahu as anyone else, but the pressure against him from the far left has been pretty disturbing and frankly some of it is anti-Semitic. There are good reasons she might have for not picking him, but those will be overshadowed.

If she picks Walz he'll be attacked for being too liberal, failing to contain the riots in Minneapolis in the summer of 2020, a 30-year-old DUI, 9 years of votes in the House, and who knows what else they have on him.

Both are great choices, but neither is free of baggage.

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