Take on Coach Walz.

At 9am when they announced Tim Walz as her running mate I texted the following to my buddies

My thought is this.   Walz is a very safe pick, gives the impression that there is an old white guy which the independent voter can feel comfortable with.   With that said, he seems to bring the same things as Kelly and I thought Kelly has a better story.    But they are afraid to lose the senate seat in Arizona.   I love Pete but I believe they are afraid to splinter off the religious older black vote.  They can't afford to lose a single one of that bloc.   Andy Beshour is a completing sorry but they aren't going to flip Kentucky anyway and they would definitely lose the statehouse.   Shapiro is a very energetic and compelling candidate but his stance on hard Israel is going away from what the party -and Kamala- wants.   

I haven't changed my mind entirely but the last 13 hours have been transformative.  Walz went from a guy I don't think I heard of a few weeks ago to a guy we now all want to have a beer with.    I'm a bit nervous that he's going to pigeonholed as a bit hokey and unserious but what I do like is that he continues to bring energy to the ticket.   He will bring a certain appearance of sensibility to the ticket although that is completely unfair to Kamala.  Anyway, I'm hoping for Pete in a bigger cabinet position, maybe State??   It protects two statehouses and a senate seat.   We can't afford to lose any of those.  

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