Who Might Run With Kamala Harris?
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Kamala Harris at the White House on Monday. “It is my intention to go out and earn this nomination and to win,” she has said.Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times
To the Editor:
Re “A Party’s Next Generation of Prospects in the Mix for the No. 2 Spot” (news article, July 23):
Vice President Kamala Harris, assuming she is the Democratic presidential nominee, has several good options for completing her ticket. Either Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania or Roy Cooper, the outgoing governor of North Carolina, my own state, would be an excellent choice for her running mate.
But I urge Ms. Harris and her advisers to cast a wider net initially.
Nothing in the Constitution would prevent Barack Obama from serving as vice president; indeed, the Republicans considered a similar move with former President Gerald Ford in 1980. Mark Milley, a retired general and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a war hero and a true patriot.
And since the farthest left Democrats are probably a lost cause for Ms. Harris anyway owing to her prosecutorial background, she could make an even bolder move and name an anti-Trump Republican or former Republican, perhaps a member of Congress who voted to impeach or convict Donald Trump.
Doing so would knock the Trump campaign off balance and, most important, inject a rare note of bipartisanship into our poisoned polity.
Fred Kameny
Chapel Hill, N.C.
To the Editor:
Might as well try to get some fun out of what has been anything but a “fun” election season. So here goes my thinking on Kamala Harris’s choice for a running mate.
First of all, it won’t be a woman or a person of color. The Democrats are not going to run a national ticket with two women or two people of color — not that there’s anything wrong with that, as they would say on “Seinfeld” — but it just ain’t happening.
