Back at the end of July as the presidential campaign entered the final 100-day stretch, Republican nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, rallied supporters in a state that hasn’t backed a Republican candidate for the White House since 1972.
Was this a fake or was this part of the plan all along? What plan?
Could it be that campaigning in Minnesota, making the blue state of Minnesota appear to be in play, was something of a charade, potentially forcing Harris and Democrats to devote resources in a state they would likely otherwise ignore?
Likewise could campaigning in St.Cloud, Minnesota have been a part of the plan to persuade the Dems and Kamala Harris to pick the present governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, to be her running mate?
If this was Trump’s plan, it appears to have worked. There have been multiple explanations as to why this lackadaisical governor of a blue state was chosen as Harris’s VP choice. The reasons that I like the best include future impeachment insurance if Harris were to be elected … after all who want Tim Walz to be the president!
The other potential reason for this strange choice of a running mate was to try to win Michigan. It is thought that even though the governor of Pennsylvania as the VP choice might go further to gain Pennsylvania’s electoral votes, Josh Shapiro is not only Jewish, but also a strong backer of Israel in its conflict with Gaza, and this could potentially keep Arabs in Michigan home on Election Day. Of course if Trump were to win Michigan like he did in 2016, or if he should win Pennsylvania, then there will be plenty of second guessing about Harris’s VP choice.
But for me, I think that the “fake campaigning” by Trump/Vance in Minnesota was part of the plan to force Harris to choose Walz as her running mate and it is already paying dividends.
8/8/24
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