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.
It tells you something about the absolute state of the elites that they can't get anybody remotely reasonable and just calm. Which is funny given the accusations they constantly levy at Trump, I can see exactly why they were so suicidal about keeping Biden in when this is the alternative.
Putting my tinfoil hat on I think all this desperation goes back to their mysterious 2030 deadline for the WEF. They seem obsessed with it and I think it's making them desperate, I have to wonder if it's because their mortality is catching up to them because so many of the competent psychopaths are boomers and they don't have viable replacements.
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.
It tells you something about the absolute state of the elites that they can't get anybody remotely reasonable and just calm. Which is funny given the accusations they constantly levy at Trump, I can see exactly why they were so suicidal about keeping Biden in when this is the alternative.
Putting my tinfoil hat on I think all this desperation goes back to their mysterious 2030 deadline for the WEF. They seem obsessed with it and I think it's making them desperate, I have to wonder if it's because their mortality is catching up to them because so many of the competent psychopaths are boomers and they don't have viable replacements.
He wasn't. They were shopping around a fair bit for VP choices and several Democrats basically told them 'Nope' publicly, to their face.