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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald

Just the ticket to shake up the US election

Who will be Kamala Harris's running mate? Picture by Shutterstock

Joe Biden's decision to relinquish his party's nomination for the presidency is a magnanimous move and clearly the right thing to do in the circumstances. He doesn't want to be the person who let "orange Hitler" and his hillbilly followers into the White House.

If I was running the Democratic Party, I would double down on this decision and have either a Harris/Gretchen Whitmer ticket, or a Harris/Pete Buttigieg ticket. Can you imagine how Trump supporters would react to an all-female ticket or a woman running with a well-qualified gay man? Their simple right-wing brains would explode.

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