Josh Shapiro

August 8, 2025 — John Hinderaker

It Was a Year Ago…

Featured image …when Kamala Harris made one of a number of catastrophically bad decisions: she selected Tim Walz as her running mate. As I wrote here at the time, it wasn’t hard to figure out how the dark horse Walz wound up with the nomination. Harris initially announced a list of five potential candidates. At that time, the little-known Walz was a throw-in, probably because he was the chairman of the Democratic »
November 11, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Did Walz Cost Harris the Election?

Featured image In hindsight, Kamala Harris’s crushing loss to Donald Trump seems overdetermined. The Biden/Harris administration’s poor record and Kamala’s lack of political ability were more than enough to account for the outcome. But the New York Post is reporting on an exit poll that suggests that Harris would have run better with Jewish voters in Pennsylvania if she had stuck with her original decision to select Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as »
August 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Ante Upped on Shapiro

Featured image As Scott wrote this morning, there are indications that Josh Shapiro is shaping up as Kamala Harris’s VP choice. Notwithstanding the opposition from “progressive,” i.e. anti-Semitic, Democrats, which I noted here. But now, in an 11th-hour development, the ante may have been upped. The progressives’ opposition to Shapiro is ostensibly based on the fact that he is pro-Israel, although–call me a cynic–I think it mostly stems from the fact that »