Though if Whitmer is *not* the pick, then elevating her at this stage may actually have that exact effect, and make the eventual nominee more palatable to many of the Dem activists who might have been disappointed by Whitmer
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Surely even those who would be very, very disappointed by a white moderate can see the case: from a critical swing state, reinforces your central coronavirus critique of Trump, plausibly 'sympatico' w Biden, and, yes, she does have some charismahttps://twitter.com/CampaignDiaries/status/1292152669902118912?s=20 …
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Flipping this around for a second, a friend makes a clever case that the backlash winds up helping Biden by highlighting his independence from progressives
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I think that's a bit too clever to really be the campaign calculation, and a gamble would generally violate 'do no harm' type principles. But it's not a crazy argument either, given that the Trump campaign's only argument recently seems to be that Biden's a vassal of the left
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I don’t get it either. Whitmer brings absolutely nothing to the table: does not appeal to a natural Dem coalition, has no national experience and comes from a state that is unlikely to be a swing state this time around.
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The importance of the vp pick is systematically over-estimated, unless it's an overt error, like Palin.
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or Tim Kaine.
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KHIVE is not that many people, progressive activists would be upset with any choice. It doesn’t matter
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you’re not gonna placate progressives more by picking kamala, rice, hell even warren (they hate her), rather than whitmer
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