Have you ever seen Harris when she has to think on her feet? She doesn't have very much confidence as a speaker and it shows - she devolves into word salad like no other politician in history.

I know another politician who tends to devolve into word salad.....

The democrats had this election in the bag if they'd picked Shapiro. The guy is a vote getting machine and would have handed Pennsylvania and the parts of Michigan not called Hamtramck and Dearborn plus Wisconsin. Layup win.

There's no evidence that VP's offer much advantage in their home state. There's no reason to think that Shapiro would have been any more successful in bringing in votes in Michigan than Walz.

Had she picked Shapiro, the GOP playbook would have been pretty much the same - portray him as a far lefty who supports trans rights and socialism. The real-world facts that distinguish him from that caricature wouldn't have mattered (any more than they matter for Walz); the GOP would be claiming that Democrats would have had the election in the bag if they'd picked Walz, an authentic midwesterner who served in the military and had triangulated purple districts for years instead of yet another East Coast Liberal Technocrat Lawyer. Wait until Shapiro's record comes out!