Or Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Intentionally “tank” his verifying interview for the vice president on the democratic ticket in 2024. Kamala Harris?
Was it arrogance? Was it “honesty, not sabotage”?
Or maybe the question, can the governor of the most significant condition of the swing in the country be “loyal number two”?
New details were created from New York Times The best -selling book, Fight. In the wildest battle for the White Houseco -author by Jonathan AllenSenior National Policy Reporter for NBC News i Parnes friendSenior political correspondent in the hill.
The authors previously wrote two other books about presidential campaigns – Shatted: Inside Hillary’s Clinton’s Conton’s Campaign (2017) AND Lucky: How Joe Biden barely won the presidency (2021). They were not intended to make another campaign book until June 27, 2024. Night of the Biden-Trump debate.
“Like many other Americans, we were a bit shocked and we thought that something would happen here, which would change,” said Allen. “Our publicist contacted us and we decided that we could not convey it.”
Thus, the genesis of book No. 3.
Departure Joe Biden
Fight He looks behind the scenes in the preceding days President Joe Biden departure from the presidential race; President Donald Trump survived the would -be killer ball; And the vice president suddenly pressed the void to bear the hopes and dreams of Democrats everywhere in a 107-day campaign for the free world.
Allen and Parnes wrote that even in 2020 it was obvious that Biden “lost fastball.”
“We are not doctors,” said Allen, “but it could be said that there was a certain decrease in biden and his sharpness. You could see signs of slip.
Despite the desire of former President Barack Obama and a former house speaker Nancy Pelosia have an open convention to choose the exchange of biden, Rep. Jim Clyburn (Ds.C.) He explained that the first black vice president would not be “omitted on the possible nomination of president.” Clyburn, de facto dean of the Congress Black Club, helped Biden to be nominated by 2020, supporting him in southern Carolina, when the vice president appeared on the verge of abandoning the race.
Veepstakes
After Harris joined the top of the ticket with the support of Biden, her first great decision was to choose a current partner. Three names remained on a short list, according to the book, after three rounds of the initial verification – Shapiro, Arizona Dream. Mark Kelly and Minnesota Tim Walz governor.
“I think Shapiro and Walz have probably always been a little more likely than Kelly,” said Allen. He mentioned During an interview with PoliticSpa These opposition and political studies of dirty tricks acted against Michigan Grezwad Gretchen Witmer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bqrnrqecwy
“We talked to the sources that stated that there were warnings about Shapiro, in particular they are very ambitious and maybe they could not play Harris’s second violin if he was on the ticket,” he continued.
Allen and Parnes write that Trump’s advisers are worried that Shapiro would be a choice because they were not sure that the popular governor would not be able to deliver their hometown – the most important at the Chess Electoral Council.
Allen thought that the Republicans perceived the danger in choosing Shapiro.
“First of all, a candidate who was popular among some Republicans in their family state. And if this is the case in Pennsylvania, it may also be in some other flywheels in Michigan. Someone is able to go through the transition in one condition, they can be able to do so in others.
“I also think that they saw a real weakness for the Democratic Party and its division into Israel and Palestine. Shapiro is quite on one side that Republicans see. Not only on the right,” he continued, “but also one that has a much more political sense in universal elections.”
But the 51-year-old former Commonwealth Prosecutor General came to his verification interview with another Hals.
“Most people who come for such a thing promise what they intend to do to support the ticket,” said Allen. “How loyal he could have been. Shapiro looked:” If you had to choose me and intended to accept it, here are things that in my opinion should be part of my portfolio. ” He looked at this more negotiations than a work application.
Was it according to the design?
“If you are Shapiro and are coming, you cannot refuse to interview the vice president,” said Allen. “But it may not want to be chosen, because there is a chance that the ticket will lose and in a sense is thrown out with water for bathing for the future.
“I want to stop saying that he did the Sabotage act because I can’t prove what was in his heart, his mind at that time. But certainly people who were there, at least wondered if he deliberately threw him to make sure that he did not hit the ticket.”
Of course, Harris was the presidential candidate in 2020, and the band Biden had similar concerns about her ability to be true and not overshadowed on the campaign trail or in the White House.
The true question was certainly taken into account the final decision to choose Walz.
“The Vetting Committee has been warned by others that Shapiro has a reputation, perhaps sliding the knife here or there,” said Allen.
Allies Late. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), Shapiro’s long-time political rival, apparently warned Harris’s team of Shapiro’s personal ambitions.
Also, according to the fragment of the book, Walz Ally, promoting the candidate, told the band Vetting that Shapiro “cannot be trusted that he would be loyal to Harris.”
The same ally divided the quote from the former Rep. Joe HoeffelWho said Shapiro, his chief of staff in Washington in 1999-2003, was not someone you should turn around.
“Loyalty is not his strong suit” He said Philadelphia Inquirer in 2017.
“Hoeffel, of course, tried to return to politics after his congress career and certainly found out that Shapiro was more ambitious than loyal,” said Allen.
Harris met with her finalists in a residence at the Navy Observatory on August 4. In the end, Walz calmed Harris, like one campaign advisor, told Allen and Parnes: “She would not have to wake up or destroy her.”
Politicspa contacted communication staff at the Governor’s office, but did not receive an answer.
The future of Shapiro as a presidential candidate
Allen said he thinks Shapiro is well prepared for the presidential run in 2028.
“I don’t think he would hurt in the verification process, outside the internal conversation,” said Allen. “Internal conversation is important when it comes to collecting recommendations and such things at a party. But it is not as important as the vision of the future. I think it is in a pretty good place.”
Allen also mentioned that Shapiro, an always clever politician, can take lessons from 2024 to every future race.
“One of the important parts is that you can learn both after victory and failure,” said the former head of the White House office Politico. “Democrats, they failed to meet this moment when it comes to choices to change. They offered no other vision.
“Democrats must read this moment,” he continued. “The voters lost their trust, especially democratic voters, they lost a lot of faith in the Democratic Party. They did not have a clear vision of what newfangled America looks like and how it helps voters. Many democratic programs in the Trump’s Era, and even earlier, defended the existing structure and institutions and programs – social security, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, Medicare,
“I’m not here to judge if they should protect these programs, but what they did not do, said, here’s how we transform everything, whether these programs or something else, as a democratic party. I think that they will have to learn this.”
