2024
The “Kamala Sneak” Play Of Replacing Biden With An Electrifying New Ticket
My thoughts on Tim Walz and the Democratic masterstroke that has left the Trump-Vance campaign flailing.
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6 min readAug 7, 2024
- Tim Walz. What a VP candidate rollout. Democrats haven’t been this excited since 2008, and I am joining in the fun happily. I wrote a short endorsement of Pete Buttigieg a week ago acknowledging he wasn’t in Kamala Harris’s top three, and I still think he’s the best communicator in politics today, but I agree with Harris that Walz makes more sense for her. A rural, red district Democrat who is a former soldier and governor is a pretty perfect complement for a San Francisco Democrat who was an attorney general and senator. Walz is also a virally popular bulldog for normal politics in an election where the most salient framing of the election has been (courtesy of Walz himself) that Donald Trump is a wannabe dictator and J.D. Vance is really weird. Buttigieg likely has presidential aspirations (and I’m totally behind them!), so Harris isn’t unwise to pick a potential VP less likely to stray from her administration’s messaging to better position himself for a future White House run. Buttigieg being such a political talent might overshadow her a bit too, which is fair for her to want to avoid. Walz seems right for…
