I was wondering what people's opinion is about a Beshear/Crockett ticket.

[pinkstarburst]

32. I want to see how BOTH perform in the primaries

I think there's the tendency to get overly focused on so-and-so, who could guarantee us this swing state for sure, or so-and-so could bring voters of this age, or whatever.

But we need to actually see how that candidate performs when they are running on their own in the primaries.

On paper, Kamala Harris is pretty much THE perfect candidate. But for whatever reason, democratic voters never warmed up to her in the 2020 primaries and we had low democratic turnout in 2024 compared to how dems turned out for Biden in 2020 (and we all know how that election turned out.)

When Hillary was looking to choose her VP, there was a lot of buzz around Julian Castro, saying he was young and Hispanic and could gain us huge turnout with young people and Hispanic voters. Clinton ultimately went with another choice. But then when Castro ran in the 2020 primaries, we observed that he couldn't even get to half a percentage point of support from voters. Being young and Hispanic himself did not automatically mean he was going to be a huge draw on the ticket for those demographics, or bring in votes.

So I realize that whoever wins in the primaries is the candidate and they're going to choose who they want. But choosing a running mate needs to be more than just about what state someone is from, or whether they're in the right age group or female or whatever. We could be soooo excited that Bob is going to get us Michigan because he's from Michigan, but if Bob can't even get 0.5% of the vote in the primary, Bob doesn't have the charisma or draw with voters on a national stage to add anything.