Josh Shapiro Gives Rousing Speech For Harris-Walz Ticket
Josh Shapiro is on the stage at the Philadelphia Harris-Walz rally giving a rousing speech on behalf of the Democratic ticket. The place is packed and boisterous. The line to get in extended for six blocks.
Tomorrow's rally in Detroit got ticket requests from tens of thousands of people.
We are taking our country back from MAGA.
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Who cant wait for trump to explode on Truth Social at 3 am tonight ?
Shapiro has been on fire. So much for Dem "disunity".
I didn't see the performance but based on the review I'm sure it qualifies for a cabinet-level position.
I cant recall a Republican speech in my lifetime that was as good as Shapiro gave just now.
Good thing the Democrats picked Walz, huh ? The type of speaker who puts a thrill up your leg and is the Governor of the most important state electorally in the Country.
What possible reason could Harris have not to pick him?????
Oh, right. I forgot he was Jewish.
I dont think Walz is going to lay an egg but MAGAs can always hope.
ont think Walz is going to lay an egg
It doesn't matter if he does or doesn't. Waltz is not going to change the election.
You are so predictable.
Consistency is a good thing.
It's must be tough to have to pivot from touting how energetic and engaged Biden is to justifying a coup to throw him off the ballot within a span of days. I don't know how progressives do it.
So no people dressed up as characters from a book pretending to be oppressed? Or men with mustaches wearing dresses? Sounds like a nice change of pace from most progressive get togethers.
None that you would understand or accept. It looks like all you want to do is stick a racist tag on Harris for picking Walz over Shapiro.
You’ve been fed your talking points from some of the most hateful and miserable hate mongers in the country. I can’t imagine a more depressing way to live.
" Governor Tim Walz. (D. Minnesota)."
I can't imagine having to deny reality and your own senses because a party demands blind allegiance. I can't imagine how dirty it must make people feel to have lied so blatantly for Biden. Shameful, really.
Try being honest. It's liberating. I can say Trump's a fool and a narcissist without worrying about being excommunicated from a political party.
lol, a Republican accusing Democrats of blind allegiance. Too funny. My only blind allegiance is to eliminate maga.
People generally find a way to justify what they would otherwise acknowledge as abhorrent, shameful behavior. It keeps what would otherwise be potentially fatal cases of cognitive dissonance at bay.
I wish the Republicans would have ditched Trump after Jan 6th. I wouldnt vote for one of them for president, but neither would it be a national calamity if a moderate Republican became president. Instead, out of fear , they cast their lot again with a mentally deranged traitor. Enough is fucking enough.
I don't think Harris is racist - look at her own mix and she is married to a Jew. Nor do I think that her choice of Walz was racist, but I think it was a clever political move to set Shapiro up to be rejected in order to please the many patent and latent antisemitic potential voters and endear herself with those in Congress, especially The Squad. If the Republicans play their cards right they can now use that fact to win Pennsylvania.
So is Harris's husband, are you saying that she is anti-Semitic?
No, her party is.
The projection is mind blowing
That's a pretty ignorant comment, even for reactionary propaganda.
Her party knows that her husband is Jewish and they are in full support of Harris, which is strange if they are anti-Semitic.
Sounds much more like you have no argument but are doing a lot projection.
Actually, it's right on point. Harris may or may not be antisemitic, but the party she represents certainly leans that way, and it seems more and more that the Democrats are pandering to the anti-Israel pro-Hamas faction of the Democrat party.
Do you think her husband is on the ballot?
And that’s the same ole regurgitated blue anon reality denying shit post
Even that noted “reactionary” van jones said today on CNN that “anti semitism is marbled into the Democratic Party” when trying to figure out how Harris possibly chose someone other than Shapiro.
A non-thinking response, if as you say the democratic party is anti-Semitic. One would think that Jws including Shapario would have left the party and would belong to the Republican Party. The fact is that hasn't happened.
But you just project and spin a false yarn.
How a sexual harassment scandal involving a Josh Shapiro aide could affect the Pa. governor’s VP chances
With Gov. Josh Shapiro emerging as a potential front-runner to become Vice President Kamala Harris ’ running mate, one of the only scandals to mark his two decades in Pennsylvania politics has resurfaced.
Erin McClelland, the Democratic nominee for state treasurer in November’s election, drew eyeballs last week with a thinly veiled and unusual intraparty jab, saying in a tweet that she wanted a vice presidential pick who, among other things, “doesn’t sweep sexual harassment under the rug.”
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What does this mean for Shapiro’s chances of being picked as Kamala Harris’ running mate?
It’s not yet clear whether the scandal involving Vereb could prevent Shapiro from getting onto the Democratic ticket this year, but he has faced backlash over it in the last week.
Last week’s tweet by McClelland, the Democratic nominee for state treasurer , injected the Vereb episode into the ongoing debate over who Harris should pick as her running mate and could fuel a new round of demands for Shapiro to more fully explain his handling of the allegations against his adviser.
And Shapiro’s detractors in the veepstakes race have begun circulating opposition research seeking to tie him to his aide’s past conduct, hoping it will serve as a strike against him in a year in which a woman is leading the Democratic ticket — and is seeking to portray former President Donald Trump as the “womanizer” candidate.
And that criticism isn’t new. Since Vereb stepped down, female state lawmakers of both parties have criticized the Shapiro administration’s lack of transparency.
“It really makes me so angry that I have to stop talking because I’ll say things I shouldn’t,” State Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward (R., Westmoreland) told The Inquirer last year. “It’s so infuriating that [Vereb] stayed in that position for months, one of the highest positions in the administration.”
You couldn't be more wrong.
That would almost be funny if it wasn't so pathetic, although it is a good example of the dumbing down prevalent in so many comments coming from the reactionary right.
Her husband is Jewish.
He won't. The desperation from the 'right' is palpable.
Funny how when some are confronted with the truth it is projected later to others.
THE PROJECTION!
What? Didn't some of the 'squad' lose their re-election bids?
Pretty much all the 'right' has or has ever had.
No, but neither is Hunter and it's hilarious how that's the 'right's' go to - we're not voting for the VP or some such nonsense
Maybe so, but didn't that happen before she was elevated to candidacy? Anyway, I just read that she intends to give an ear to Hamas' argument. Now I'm not so impressed with her - if I were her I'd tell them to go deflower their 72 virgins.
His cadence is matching Obama's. and his tone is largely the same.
Some comedians have noted this.
Governor Shapiro is somebody to watch. Present in the moment. Great (heartfelt) speech and delivery. Three stars.
video of crowd at rally today
George Conway is one onboard conservative for Kamala! Thanks, George!
That is just fantastic. I watched it live on TV and you could tell the crowd was huge and totally electric.
And it has just come out that Shapiro called the Harris campaign after their meeting telling her he didn’t have a good feeling about the position. So she went with number two?? We will never know.
GLORIOUS
Shapiro must’ve heard that cackles is a total bitch to work for/with and decided he didn’t need that shit.
Trump said Hitler ‘did some good things,’ former chief of staff says
Former President Donald Trump, who has been criticized for embracing some of the rhetoric of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on the campaign trail, praised the genocidal German dictator while he was in the White House, his former chief of staff and other top aides told CNN .
“He said, ‘Well, but Hitler did some good things.’ I said, ‘Well, what?’ And he said, ‘Well, [Hitler] rebuilt the economy.’ But what did he do with that rebuilt economy? He turned it against his own people and against the world. And I said, ‘Sir, you can never say anything good about the guy. Nothing,’” retired Marine Gen. John Kelly said. “It’s pretty hard to believe he missed the Holocaust, though, and pretty hard to understand how he missed the 400,000 American GIs that were killed in the European theater.”
Kelly said Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive 2024 nominee, admired the loyalty of Nazi leaders and generals to Hitler, aspiring to receive the same loyalty from the U.S. military’s highest ranking officers.
“He would ask about the loyalty issues and about how, when I pointed out to him the German generals as a group were not loyal to him, and in fact tried to assassinate him a few times, and he didn’t know that,” Kelly said. “He truly believed, when he brought us generals in, that we would be loyal — that we would do anything he wanted us to do.”
The former Marine general served as Trump's chief of staff from July 2017 to January 2019 and much of what he described to CNN had been previously reported, though this is the first time Kelly has spoken publicly about what he witnessed. He also said Trump was laudatory of Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, praise he has repeated publicly over the years and as recently as the last few months.
“He views himself as a big guy,” Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton told CNN. “He likes dealing with other big guys, and big guys like Erdogan in Turkey get to put people in jail and you don’t have to ask anybody’s permission. He kind of likes that.”
"Glorious." /s
What a manly thing to say!
So manly
Did Kamala Harris opt against Josh Shapiro because he is Jewish? Campaign calls accusation ‘ridiculous and offensive’
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Republicans have seized on the choice of Walz to paint Democrats as antisemitic.
But while Jewish Democrats have expressed concern about antisemitism among Shapiro’s critics, they’re lining up behind Walz — and pushing back on the notion that antisemitism played any role in the decision.
Multiple commentators noted that Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, is Jewish.
“Multiple things can be true: Some extreme voices targeted Shapiro. And Harris — who is married to a Jew and proudly highlights it — picked Walz because she felt he was best for the ticket,” tweeted Amy Spitalnick, the CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, who had lacerated the anti-Shapiro campaign and whose group frequently allies with progressives .
Did Kamala Harris opt against Josh Shapiro because he is Jewish? Campaign calls accusation ‘ridiculous and offensive' - Jewish Telegraphic Agency (jta.org)
Shapiro VP run could bring attacks over aide’s sex harassment case
Female legislators and victim advocates say the governor responded poorly.
File photo: Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)
If Vice President Kamala Harris ends up picking Gov. Josh Shapiro as her running mate, over the next three months he may find himself facing attacks over what has arguably been the only genuine scandal of his tenure in Pennsylvania’s top elected office.
Last September, news outlets reported that Mike Vereb, Shapiro’s liaison to the state legislature, had abruptly resigned after being accused months earlier of making inappropriate, lewd and sexually suggestive comments to a female employee he oversaw.
Vereb is a Republican from Montgomery County, where Shapiro started his political career. They had overlapping tenures as legislators in the state House, and after Shapiro was elected attorney general he made Vereb his director of government affairs.
Shortly after Shapiro became governor in January 2023, Vereb allegedly began harassing the female staffe r and making sexual advances , leading her to quit in March, according to complaints she prepared for the state’s Human Rights Commission and the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity.
She alleged the governor knew about concerns about Vereb’s past behavior when he hired him, and failed to address the harassment or protect her from retaliation.
Shapiro’s administration has repeatedly declined to comment on the accusations. It paid out $295,000 as part of a settlement, which included a clause barring both sides from discussing the allegations.
Concerns about a Shapiro vice presidency
The settlement drew national attention at the time . Claims that Shapiro tolerated Vereb’s harassment of the employee and took too long to dismiss him “threaten to cut at the heart of the governor’s political identity,” given his previous high-profile work investigating sex abuse by Catholic priests and his strong pro-women’s rights positions, according to a Politico analysis.
Complaints about Shapiro’s handling of the incident surfaced again after Harris began considering the governor as a running mate in her bid for the presidency.
Erin McLelland, the Democratic nominee for state Treasurer, took a jab at Shapiro over the Vereb case last month. She endorsed North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper to be Kamala Harris’s running mate, saying she wanted a VP pick that “doesn’t sweep sexual harassment under the rug.” Her comments were quickly picked up by Fox News and the New York Post .
The National Women’s Defense League , a group founded in 2022 to prevent sexual harassment in state government and to protect survivors, also expressed concern about Shapiro’s candidacy .
“The American people deserve to know that, if called to a higher office, Governor Shapiro will do more to ensure the safety and dignity of employees, volunteers and constituents in his office,” the group said.
Inside Harris’ decision to pass over Josh Shapiro as her VP pick
Story by Sean Collins Walsh, Julia Terruso, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro arrived on Sunday at the U.S. Naval Observatory, Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence in Washington, thinking that there was a strong chance she would pick him to be her running mate in the presidential race.
But by the time he left his final interview with Harris, Shapiro got the impression that she was headed in a different direction, according to a person with knowledge of his experience during the process. Two days later, she tapped Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate.
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Although Shapiro was widely seen as a front-runner from the outside, Harris’ decision was impacted by factors political and personal, and by events that played out in the highly compressed timeline for her to make a selection, according to two sources familiar with her campaign’s vetting process.
Shapiro faced far more public criticism than Walz, who was largely seen as a do-no-harm option. And two of the top Democrats in the state, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle L. Parker and U.S. Sen. John Fetterman , contributed at least in part — and in very different ways — to a narrative that Shapiro had been trying to avoid: He was too ambitious to be a No. 2.
Shapiro, 51, came into the process with a growing national profile after a landslide 14-point victory over Republican Doug Mastriano in the 2022 gubernatorial race, cementing his status as one of the party’s top political talents in a critical battleground for the presidential contest.
Shapiro gained national attention in his first year as governor for reopening I-95 just 12 days after a tanker fire caused a collapse to a section in Northeast Philadelphia. And this year, he negotiated a bipartisan budget deal through a divided legislature .
But as a potential VP pick, he faced opposition from public education advocates over his embrace of private school vouchers , from progressives over his vocal support for Israel , and from the National Women’s Defense League, which was concerned about his handling of sexual harassment complaints against a one-time staffer.
But in addition to those political concerns, Harris, who knows well the delicate relationship between a president and vice president, was also worried about whether Shapiro would be a good fit for a supporting role, according to the sources familiar with the vetting process.
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