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Josh Shapiro’s Judaism was not why Kamala Harris snubbed him, new book claims
Forward ^ | July 4, 2025 | Jacob Kornbluh

Posted on 07/08/2025 1:48:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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I don't really believe this. What would have happened if she picked him? Would a certain faction of the party have gone crazy?
1 posted on 07/08/2025 1:48:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Harris rejected Shapiro because they had too much in common

Shapiro is a stupid airhead diversity hire who slept his way to the top?

2 posted on 07/08/2025 1:50:11 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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He is also to have been up to his eyeballs in a coverup for a high ranking staffer but let’s be honest it’s because they where terrified of losing Michigan and they definitely would have if she took him.


3 posted on 07/08/2025 1:56:27 PM PDT by Lod881019
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The notion that a single voter would be troubled by the fact that they had both been a state AG is just stupid. Maybe he was overbearing, but also maybe that’s just code for he was more driven and dynamic than Kamala. I don’t know, but both are possible and that they would lie about the AG thing makes the source unreliable. Likewise the notion that his being Jewish had absolutely nothing to do with it. Given the lunatics the left has to play to, it would have been political malpractice not to take it into account


4 posted on 07/08/2025 1:57:15 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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“The campaign said Shapiro’s faith was not a factor.” Of course. What else could they say? “No, we don’t want a Jew on the ticket?” Fat chance of that ever being said (out loud).


5 posted on 07/08/2025 2:00:56 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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Naw, it was the poor chemistry between the two all the time. Shapiro is Jewish, and Kamala is an inveterate anti-Semite, just like the Republicans read the situation.

Besides, Shapiro is WAY more intelligent than Kamala, and that is always a bad situation for any potential occupant of the Oval Office to find themselves in. Kamala was chosen in the first place because in many ways she made Joe Biden look sort of smart. And that was a pretty low bar to begin with.


6 posted on 07/08/2025 2:02:44 PM PDT by alloysteel (Try to understand, God is not finished with me yet. Still lots of room for improvement.)
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And Walz made Harris look smart. Hard to imagine who Walz would pick to make him look smart.


7 posted on 07/08/2025 2:16:04 PM PDT by xp38
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Kamala is married to a Jew. I would agree that Shapiro's being a Jew had little to do with him not being selected.
8 posted on 07/08/2025 2:18:47 PM PDT by JesusIsLord
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‘Would a certain faction of the party have gone crazy?’

I believe so, yes.


9 posted on 07/08/2025 2:19:22 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Hard to imagine who Walz would pick to make him look smart.

AOL? Crockett? Mazie Hirono?

10 posted on 07/08/2025 2:23:23 PM PDT by JesusIsLord
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Kamala is married to a Jew. I would agree that Shapiro's being a Jew had little to do with him not being selected.

She's married to a Jew and she can reject Shapiro for being a Jew.

Doug Emhoff does not see himself as Jewish and he did not raise his children in the faith.

11 posted on 07/08/2025 2:25:59 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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I firmly believe Shapiro torpedoed himself. He didn’t want to be her running mate. He knew she was going to lose, and take him down with her. Hence the ‘poor chemistry’, or whatever it is they said. He would have helped Harris here in PA, but I doubt it would have made the difference. Trump is very popular around here.


12 posted on 07/08/2025 2:29:46 PM PDT by Big E
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Only one unsuccessful VP candidate has ever gone on to be elected President—FDR.


13 posted on 07/08/2025 2:32:12 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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Was Emhoff’s first wife Jewish?


14 posted on 07/08/2025 2:32:40 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Good one.


15 posted on 07/08/2025 2:35:45 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (MAGA)
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#6: "Shapiro is WAY more intelligent than Kamala."

That's the truth. Thank God. The race might have been closer if Shapiro has been running.

16 posted on 07/08/2025 2:37:05 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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Here's the real reason:


17 posted on 07/08/2025 2:39:04 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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just stupid. Maybe he was overbearing, but also maybe that’s just code for he was more driven and dynamic than Kamala.

He is certainly more articulate; and if possible for a democrat, a little less hateful.

18 posted on 07/08/2025 2:51:58 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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I fail to see why it has to be Shapiro making Kamala look stupid, or him being Jewish. Both could very easily be factors.

I think a large percentage of the Jewish community will in the medium term future need to decide where they are Leftists or Jews. Thus they will need to either repudiate their Judaism to remain Leftist in god standing or (re)study the Talmud and learn that leftism is not Judaism.

If they are willing to drop the leftism the Republican party will happily accept them. The pre-1980 Republican party was still majority WASP and they happily accepted the heavily Jewish and Catholic Neo-conservatives who decided there was no place in the Dem party for anti-Soviet Liberals.


19 posted on 07/08/2025 2:53:44 PM PDT by Fraxinus (My opinion, worth what you paid.)
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Shapiro is Jewish, and Kamala is an inveterate anti-Semite, just like the Republicans read the situation.

How can that be? She is married to a Jew and her stepchildren call her a Yiddish nickname.

20 posted on 07/08/2025 2:54:18 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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