Greetings! I won’t predict who Kamala Harris will pick as her running mate. Still, Josh Shapiro, the popular governor of crucial swing state Pennsylvania remains my top choice. My preference for Shapiro is based on a simple, shallow reason: Shapiro projects vitality and youth, qualities missing from the Oval Office for the past eight years. Arizona Governor Mark Kelly is good, especially on immigration, but his baldness – sorry bald dudes – just doesn’t work for me. The Democratic ticket is facing off against an older, beefier and less energetic Donald Trump. In stark contrast, a Harris-Shapiro ticket will put The Donald on the defensive as an geriatric rerun gasbag of a candidate…Big story of last weekend: Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff had an affair with the nanny of his daughter and reportedly got her pregnant according to the Daily Mail.  Unfortunately, that lowers the moral high ground on which Kamala has been standing lately. Wonder if Trump sees this as a line of attack or if Emhoff’s dalliance hits too close to home. The story has caught the attention of the right with FrontPage suggesting that the nanny had Emhoff’s love child…PJ Media’s Matt Margolis boasts that he know the one question Trump should ask that would effectively end Kamala’s campaign. Yeah, right…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Most Americans celebrated yesterday's release of the 16 prisoners held by Russia.  But not Donald J. Trump.  For weeks, The Donald had been promising that if reelected to the White House, he’d quickly secure the  release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, the most prominent of those held by Putin and company.  However, it was Joe Biden who engineered the art of the deal, leaving The Donald to whine about the good news (here’s what he wrote) … Worth mentioning (even if it’s most likely wishful thinking): Anthony Scaramucci predicts on X that Trump will drop out of the race…The social media analytical company Zelf, which specializes in examining content produced on Tik Tok, released its first political report this week.  The company studied 153,300 videos from June 27 to July 26 mentioning Trump, Biden and Kamala Harris.  Since Biden dropped out July 21, Zelf reports that Harris’s Tik Toks received almost two billion views.  Worth mentioning: There’s a new Substack thefyp.news which interprets the Zelf data.  The newsletter just reported that more than three-fourths of Tik Tok posts referring to Vance in the last week were negative…. Weekend Read: Guilty Pleasures: Sex, God and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida.  It’s the true story of a love triangle gone horribly wrong involving two young devout Christian couples.  I can’t stop reading it…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard