Democrat nominee Kamala Harris desperately needs to win Pennsylvania but tabbing Governor Josh Shapiro as her veep is looking to be increasingly problematic.
Shapiro could deliver the Keystone State’s precious electoral votes but it could come at a high cost in Michigan where the potential running made has one big problem and it’s an insurmountable one: he’s Jewish.
The governor’s Jewishness already wasn’t going to go over well with the rabidly anti-Semitic elements of the Democrat base but a recently unearthed college essay may be the deal killer that could stick a fork into his candidacy.
“Palestinians will not coexist peacefully,” because “they do not have the capabilities to establish their own homelands and make it successful even with the aid of Israel and the United States,” he wrote in the decades-old column for the University of Rochester’s student paper the Campus Times that was dug up by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
So apparently when Josh Shapiro wasn’t writing racist screeds against Palestinians in his college days, he was volunteering for the IDF.
And this is the guy considered a top contender to be Harris’ VP… pic.twitter.com/qEzcZxwzic
— Mel (@Villgecrazylady) August 2, 2024
“They are too battle-minded to be able to establish a peaceful homeland of their own,” Shapiro said, also identifying himself as a “past volunteer in the Israeli army” and called the Arab world “belligerent.”
The old remarks from the college-aged Shapiro ignited a firestorm among Hamas sympathizers who have already tabbed him as “Genocide Josh” in a smear over his support of Israel.
“Since he wrote this piece as a 20-year-old student, Gov. Shapiro has built close, meaningful, informative relationships with many Muslim-American, Arab-American, Palestinian Christian, and Jewish community leaders all across Pennsylvania,” Shapiro’s spox Manuel Bonder said in a statement to Fox News Digital defending his boss.
“The Governor greatly values their perspectives and the experiences he has learned from over the years – and as a result, as with many issues, his views on the Middle East have evolved into the position he holds today,” Bonder added.
Harris has been pressured by progressives to reject Shapiro, with 50 prog leaders writing a letter saying that despite being the popular governor of a battleground state, he has “shortcomings as a national candidate,” they claimed with the unspoken part being that he doesn’t meet with the approval of the Jew-haters who now call the Democratic Party their home.
One Jewish House Democrat, Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) shared an article on the letter and told it like it is.
These Progressives don’t want a Jew. Let’s say it out loud. Imagine if moderate Dems said they didn’t want a certain minority. The condemnations would be deafening. Yet now we hear much silence. https://t.co/rjQ0Yv5tej
— Jared Moskowitz (@JaredEMoskowitz) August 1, 2024
“It is in Harris’s and the Democrats’ best interests to … ensure that both their new VP pick and their platform support the majority of Democrats and Americans who want social and economic justice for workers and an immediate ceasefire in Palestine,” reads the website of a left-wing group enlisting support for its “No Genocide Josh” campaign.
Now that the pathetic candidacy of Joe Biden has reportedly been canceled by Barack Obama and the party elite, the election is now up for grabs according to the media but Harris is going to need to win in the handful of Dem-controlled states that the Electoral College will come down to.
It’s her choice, Pennsylvania or Michigan.
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Chris Donaldson is an ordinary American who is concerned about rampant corruption as well as the ongoing attacks on our way of life by those who have contempt for our hard-earned freedoms. A Navy veteran, he has been a frequent contributor to conservative websites and resides in Florida.
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