BTW, IF Harris ran with Shapiro would PA be a swing state? WHY do you suppose THIS DEM party couldn't run Shapiro?

Don't know. I don't know PA politics well enough to know whether Shapiro's got enough juice to shift the dynamic of the race. As you can probably tell from my posts, my view of the state of play is that Harris has an uphill climb not because of who she (or her VP candidate) is, but because a lot of voters on both the right and the left are disappointed with the state of the country and what the Biden Administration has delivered.

There's no reason that the DEM party couldn't run Shapiro - self-evidently, they did run Shapiro, since he's currently the governor of Pennsylvania. IMHO, I think Harris made her Veep choice based on vibes and biography, and she preferred the Midwestern football coach/military vet vibe to the Georgetown-educated East Coast lawyer vibe.