There is numerous talk concerning the election of the Vice President and the Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' election by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is not any different.
Known for Attack on Donald Trump and JD Vance as “strange”, Walz, 60, defeated a powerful field of Democratic candidates, including Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, U.S. Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
A moderate democratWalz served as a U.S. Representative from 2007 to 2019 and is taken into account a sexy option for potential independent voters.
Harris' decision comes at an important time within the 2024 US presidential election. Less than three months before the election National polls suggest the race could be very close – and Harris believes her selection of vp will translate into votes within the crucial swing states on Election Day.
The Conversation US has published quite a few articles about vice presidents and whether their election helped or hurt presidential campaigns. Here are a few of them.
1. What do vice presidents actually do?
As a political scientist Joshua Holzer However, there are few references to the office of Vice President within the U.S. Constitution.
These references state that “the Vice President becomes President” when the President becomes incapable of motionand certainly one of its foremost duties is that of President of the US Senate, who may only vote along within the event of a tie.
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But as Holzer points out, tied votes within the Senate are rare. Since 1789 only 301 votes for the tie were forged, and 12 vice presidents, including then-Vice President Joe Biden, didn’t forged a single vote. Harris holds the record with 33 decisive votes.
“Aside from staying out of trouble to avoid impeachment and waiting to become or replace the president, vice presidents are really only required to cast an occasional tie-breaking vote in the Senate,” Holzer wrote. “This means that most of the time, vice presidents have no real job.”
John Adams, the first US Vice Presidentwas of an identical opinion. He once complained to his wife that the office of Vice President is “the most insignificant office that man has ever conceived or imagined.”
Read more: Kamala Harris sets record for many tie-breaking votes in Senate history – a fast have a look at vp duties
2. Do no harm
As a scholar who studies American politics, Philip Klinkner has examined how political considerations within the collection of a vp have modified over time.
Although there may be little evidence that vice presidential candidates help their electoral results, a foul selection can hurt the election. “Whether Harris played it safe or was bold with her choice, the most important consideration was to do no harm,” Klinkner wrote.
In the case of a foul election, Klinkner explained, the issue shouldn’t be whether the list of candidates is sufficiently balanced or diverse, but moderately whether the candidate has been sufficiently vetted.
“The worst decisions – Tom Eagleton in 1972, Quayle in 1988 and Palin in 2008 – were the result of hasty and ill-conceived selection processes,” Klinkner wrote.
Read more: The vice presidential election is not any longer nearly where you reside, but in addition about who you’re. What path will Harris take to balance the vote?
3. Trump’s election
Karin Amira is a political scientist whose research focuses on the connection between Donald Trump, the Republican Party, and conservatism.
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Since Trump chosen U.S. Senator JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate, it has been widely reported that Vance once referred to Trump as “morally reprehensible” And “Cultural heroine,” and he
privately compared him to Hitler.
But the day after Vance won his own Senate election in 2022, he reportedly announced that he would support Trump for president in 2024 and now says that he not readily certified would have won the 2020 election if he had been in Vice President Mike Pence’s shoes.
As Amira identified, Vance doesn’t represent a swing state, nor does he have much appeal to MAGA-skeptical independent voters.
But people near Trump call the 39-year-old Vance the brand new heir to Trump's MAGA movement.
What conclusions could be drawn from Trump’s decision to decide on Vance?
Since 2015, Amira explained, Trump has tightened his grip on the Republican Party, pushing it further away from its stated conservative ideology. “The selection of Vance as Trump's vice presidential running mate – and the contest that preceded it – are the latest steps in that process,” Amira wrote.
Read more: The collection of JD Vance as Trump's vice presidential candidate marks the top of Republican conservatism
Editor's note: This story is a summary of articles from The Conversation archives.
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