Did Josh Shapiro Get Snubbed as Kamala's VP Because He's Jewish? W/ Batya Ungar-Sargon & Rich Lowry

they're not going to say Shapiro's a Jew but you and I both know and Rich knows too there is no way that wasn't an important factor in his rejection honestly Megan some of them are coming out and saying it right and the thing about Josh Shapiro is he's not just a Jew he's an observant Jew he keeps kosher right this is a person who has a deep connection to his Jewish Heritage of course that was not the reason to pick him the reason to pick him was he could have delivered the one state KLA Harris absolutely needs to win in order to win the presidency right so on the one hand you have the guy who could deliver the one state she actually needs in order to win right and on the other hand you have somebody who is a far-left progressive as you said who what's his big claim to fame he coined the term weird for JD Vance so obviously she went with Tim Walls I mean it's so amazing Megan and there is simply so little effort being put by the far-left progressive wing of the party to mask the fact that this was simply about Josh Shapiro having a strong proud Jewish identity and opposing anti-Semitism on college campus they have been explicit about this and the Democratic party has caved to the anti-semites that is what we're seeing here we have here um Karen Atia of the Washington Post who has been one of the nastiest commentators on the Israel Hamas War she was celebrating in the streets once Israel was attacked long before they really began their retaliation campaign she was one of the people who liked this is what decolonization looks like like within a day or two of the attack columnist for the Washington Post she's thrilled about Governor Waltz she tweeted out looking forward to waltz donkey stomping Vance in a VP debate wals is full of persona Charisma experience and authenticity Vance is a shape-shifting woman-hating weirdos sellout he's gonna tap out in 46 seconds like that weepy Italian boxer I'm here for it lfg do you believe that so she's got it all in there Rich this is classy Washington Post just so thrilled they didn't go with that other guy who is somehow weirdly objectionable you know the governor of Pennsylvania this is just mindboggling because obviously Pennsylvania is the whole ball game right Trump's not winning without it she's not winning without it 10,000 votes could matter I don't think picking Shapiro would have delivered Pennsylvania but it potentially could have helped 10,000 20,000 whatever in an narrow race that could be decisive for the entire election so that she didn't pick him he's popular there the Fox News poll had him at 61% uh he has executive experience he's obviously bright he's glib so it does make you go and scratch your head you can't know exactly what the internal deliberations were but the entire public argument there a few other things thrown in but most of it was that he was a pro-israel Jew and he he was apologetic over it he was very defensive over this college outed he wrote 20 or 30 years ago saying the Palestinians are the problem and the reasons why we can't have peace which is obviously true but that's considered Oppo now in the Democratic party so instead she went with this guy who seems to me to be an MSNBC anchor idea of what focus focus what being folky and having appeal to the middle of the country is I don't get it at all and another Factor here with Shapiro may have been she he he's quite good and she may have felt there's a potential that he would outperform her that people would comment on that he was the fact that he's better at this and she felt threatened by him also might have been an element of it here but clearly you know so leftwing choice this isn't a moderate Choice whatsoever she's doubling down on the left there's some support for that second theory Rich coming from Fox news's Jackie Henrich tweeting out two sources confirm on background the deciding factor in the VP Choice was what Senator fedman of Pennsylvania said publicly concerns that Mr Shapiro's own personal Ambitions would cause him to upstage or override Harris the video produced by the Phil by the Philly mayor team solidified the sentiment on Friday the implication being that Shapiro had something to do with that sort of pre-release making it look like he was the choice um but Shapiro's team saying they they had no idea that the mayor's office was doing that or releasing that but the point is you know they're trying to say okay he was he was getting ahead of himself baa I read that and I think that's her people trying to say it's not the fact that he is an observant je it's that he got too big for his bridges yeah I totally agree with you and I think you know the you pointed out the Pelosi and Obama were behind walls whereas actually President Biden was behind was backing Shapiro right so again we see this big you know power uh exchange happening the the center of gravity uh in the party and of course that is the most important thing about kamla Harris right she is sort of you know Democratic factory settings right she has no independent convictions of her own she reflects where she thinks the center of gravity of the party is and so looking ahead to this last week I was saying I really hope she picks Shapiro because it will signal to Jewish American voters look of course there is this anti-semitic campaign against Shapiro but the leadership is not listening to that the leadership would never fall for something this disgusting the leadership knows that in order to win the presidency we need to win Pennsylvania and so we're going to go with the guy who with 61% approval in Pennsylvania and instead what did K Harris do she signaled to the country that the center of gravity of the democratic party right now is with the pro Hamas protesters and anybody who said anti-Semitism will not be tolerated is going to get the boot and I think Jewish Americans are paying very close attention to that the signal that was given to them is you need to tell your children now that you cannot be the vice president of the of the United States if you are a Jew that cannot happen for you because the center of gravity of the party is on its knees begging to be recognized by anti-semitic young people apparently that was the message of this Choice yeah you can't if you're not if you want to run as a Democrat it's it's a no I mean even if you're the governor of Pennsylvania the must win win state in the entire contest in a nail-bitingly close race it won't be enough sweetheart you'll have to find something else to believe in if you want that role it's just absolutely disgusting it's so on the nose these are the people who want to be our moral betters who claim to be rich who are constantly lecturing us about big and inclusion it's a lie they're all for inclusion when it's men and women sports like this Karena laughing at the pain of that Italian boxer but when the inclusion looks like a man who happens to be Jewish it's a yeah and and this this is not like a this wouldn't been a history-making choice right it's been done before most re recently with Joe liberman so we've actually seen backsliding among Democrats and on the left where this would be actually a big deal having a Jew running mate who's somewhat favorable to Israel it's not like Shapiro is one of us right he's just relatively moderate compared to the rest of the party and the the choice of wals does show where the center of gravity of the party is and it's not where Joe Biden is Right Joe Joe Biden has even though he's cow toow to the left in all sorts of polling ways he he is a preacher of another time and has certain instincts on being pro-israel in favor of allies kind of patriotism that K Harris does not have she is awoke uh Progressive she had all those positions in 19 and 20 that she's now disavowed that Joe Biden never would have adopted or only adopted them under extreme pressure she did it of her own free will because she thought that's where the party was going and now now 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