Why Mark Kelly rocketed to the top of the Harris veepstakes
“I think Arizona is still gettable and more gettable with Kamala.”
Prominent Democratic donors and leading Democrats in Arizona are pushing Vice President Kamala Harris to choose Sen. Mark Kelly as her running mate, a selection process that campaign aides say remains wide open despite the truncated timeframe they face to finalize a Democratic ticket before the party’s convention next month.
Kelly and Josh Shapiro, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, remain among the favorites of Democratic voters and donors, according to polls, surveys and betting markets. Govs. Roy Cooper of North Carolina and Andy Beshear of Kentucky — both also under consideration by the Harris campaign — would offer Harris a chief executive who has a track record of winning red state voters.
But Kelly’s stock rose further on Wednesday after he moved to allay the concerns of some union organizations, endorsing a bill that would expand labor protections and employee rights.
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