Harris is starting to vet potential running mates. Her initial list includes nearly a dozen names

He also has a twin brother who is also an astronaut, that means double the campaigning and no one will know! /s

For real though, Kelly would probably be a great choice, if nothing more than because his politics are at least okay, and his career hopefully makes it really really hard for Republicans to criticize him.

I really don't like that Kelly worked with Joe Manchin to attack the environment - https://web.archive.org/web/20240710182356/https://www.eenews.net/articles/manchin-kelly-urge-biden-to-open-new-gulf-oil-leasing/

Out of all the likely names I've seen, Roy Cooper (well liked governor from a swing state) seems like the one with the fewest turds on his record. He made some rough pro-Israel statements in October, but when progressives in his state complained he met with them and started stressing the need to protect Palestinian civilians after that (who had just gone entirely unmentioned in his first statements).

e; ftr, either way I'm voting for Harris

Not to mention, his wife was a politician who survived an assassination attempt - she was shot in the head and had to relearn a lot of basic tasks. Takes a bit of the wind out of Trumps sails on that front.

I wouldn't mind an astronaut. At all. He'd probably kick our space program in the ass and we can finally get that moon base done.

I read that most people that go up there, after they come back, their entire worldview changes from what they thought before, and all petty human issues become meaningless. You finally realize how precious life on Earth is, and how small we are. It's a documented phenomenon.

I dislike this VP->President pipeline it's deeply undemocratic... we should stop making that a thing.

Someone have the list?

But they need to sell bumper stickers to fund the campaign!