Her choice will provide insights into her judgment, decision process, political priorities, and ultimately into her electoral prospects as she girds to face Donald Trump in a critical election
John Adams, who from 1789 to 1797 served as the first vice president, once complained that the United States had “in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.”Ms. Harris knows the limits of the office; John Nance Garner, who held the post from 1933 to 1941 under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was quoted as saying the post “isn’t worth a pitcher of warm spit.
Few choices short of war and peace are as significant as the selection of a person who, as Harry Truman, who ascended to the presidency in 1945 after the death of FDR, put it, “simply presides over the Senate and sits around hoping for a funeral.” Ms. Harris’s choice has long-term implications for governing – some vice presidents, such as Mr. Mondale, have had important, substantive tasks – and vital short-term consequences for politics.
If Ms. Harris, who is 59, nonetheless chooses Ms. Whitmer, who is 52; Mr. Shapiro, who is 51; or Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who is 42, she would give the Democratic slate a youthful profile that would provide a marked contrast with Mr. Trump, who is 78. Even Governors J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, who is 59, and Tim Walz of Minnesota, who is 60, are relatively youthful in comparison with the former president.
Much like the 2000 and 2004 GOP ticket of George W. Bush of Texas and Dick Cheney of Wyoming, a Harris/Kelly ticket would have a distinctive Western tint. And their two states share a border, an unusual phenomenon until Bill Clinton, from Arkansas, chose Al Gore, from Tennessee, and they won both the 1992 and 1996 elections.
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