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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Aug. 5, 2024

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