but...it almost seems like the system is setting him up to win
You aren't wrong. I don't think it is intentional though. I think Kamala is just so terrible that their A team knows it is futile, so they are stuck playing their scrubs. No way in Hell was Walz her first choice for VP. I suspect she is having similar difficulties getting anywhere near her top picks for any other position in her campaign as well.
TPTB don't want to waste someone like an Andy Beshear vs Trump, not because a loss vs Trump is bad politically (not like Trump will be able to do much in office sadly) but just to avoid the bad look that losing a national election has on a candidate.
I don't know if TPTB could talk BeShear or Newsome into committing political suicide even if they wanted to. I think they are having to reach further down the bench than even they want to.
You aren't wrong. I don't think it is intentional though. I think Kamala is just so terrible that their A team knows it is futile, so they are stuck playing their scrubs. No way in Hell was Walz her first choice for VP. I suspect she is having similar difficulties getting anywhere near her top picks for any other position in her campaign as well.
TPTB don't want to waste someone like an Andy Beshear vs Trump, not because a loss vs Trump is bad politically (not like Trump will be able to do much in office sadly) but just to avoid the bad look that losing a national election has on a candidate.
I don't know if TPTB could talk BeShear or Newsome into committing political suicide even if they wanted to. I think they are having to reach further down the bench than even they want to.
Well, Shapiro would have been a better choice for the electoral map, but it offends the anti jew/pro hamas base of the left.
He wasn't. They were shopping around a fair bit for VP choices and several Democrats basically told them 'Nope' publicly, to their face.