Vice President Kamala Harris has politicos scratching their heads after she passed over Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and instead selected leftist Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
The answer is very clear: Harris feared losing the Democrat Party’s “Death to America” caucus. Click here to read the one book President Trump says Americans must read before Election Day.
Shapiro, who is Jewish, drew fierce objections from pro-Palestinian Democrats over his support for the nation of Israel. The popular Democrat governor also served as an Israeli army volunteer.
“It’s hard to imagine that Josh’s strong stand on Israel, his Jewish background, didn’t somehow factor into the decision,” Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick said. He made that remark during a community roundtable event at a Jewish center in Philadelphia.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, an evangelical Christian, said that he had no doubt Shapiro was not picked because of his Jewish heritage.
“I think that clearly was a major factor, is that she was reluctant to put a vice presidential nominee on the ticket with Jewish heritage because they’re having a split in the Democratic Party,” Johnson told The Hill in an exclusive interview. “They have a pro-Palestinian, in some cases pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party.”
“Sadly for Josh Shapiro, because of his heritage, I think that is the reason he was overlooked,” Johnson added.
Johnson would not go so far as to call Harris’ decision an act of antisemitism.
“I’m not gonna call it that because I don’t — I just know that that was a major factor,” Johnson said. “I think it was transparently a major factor. And I think they made a political decision that is sad, and I think they’ll regret it.”
In recent days Shapiro came under attack because of an essay he penned more than 30 years ago arguing that “Palestinians will not peacefully coexist.”
He went on to say “they do not have the capabilities to establish their own homelands and make it successful even with the aid of Israel and the United States.”
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) pointed out that Harris is “the most anti-Israel member of Biden’s team, always siding with Hamas and Iran’s interests.”
“Shapiro and Walz’s views on Israel aren’t that different,” Cotton wrote on X. “But Harris catered to her pro-Hamas, antisemitic base who opposed Shapiro because he’s Jewish.”
Kamala’s Anti-Jewish Bigot Problem
Former Ambassador Nikki Haley called on Democrats to explain “this movement towards deeper antisemitism.”
“We are seeing it in the protests, in the rhetoric by the Squad and members of Congress, and now in the VP pick. They can’t talk this away as coincidence,” she said. “It’s concerning.”
Even Democrat pundit Van Jones admitted on CNN that Harris may have been “caving in to some of these darker parts in the party” – referring to anti-Jewish bigots “that have gotten marbled into this party.”
So, it’s not all that surprising that Harris passed over Shapiro. When it comes to picking Democrat Party candidates, Jews need not apply.
