Talmage Boston: Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have chosen ideological clones of themselves for running mates. Our nation’s best presidents did the...
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, right, and running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz are pictured at a campaign rally, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Las Vegas. As we await the Democratic National Convention this week, Americans already know both major parties’ nominees have chosen vice-presidential candidates that put the nation on a course toward even greater division.
Had such choices for middle-way nominees been made, Harris and Trump would have been in much better positions to attract large quantities of independents without losing a single vote from devoted soldiers in the far left and MAGA right regiments.Unlike Harris and Trump, our greatest presidents chose for their running mates people who provided balance to their tickets.
Abraham Lincoln’s Republican convention chose Sen. Andrew Johnson from Tennessee in 1864, as the Civil War neared its end and the nation aspired to reunite. The choice demonstrated Lincoln’s willingness to bring a Southerner into a position of national leadership as the first step toward postwar reconciliation, and the strategy produced an electoral victory of over 90% for the Lincoln-Johnson ticket.
John F. Kennedy knew he was in a tight race in 1960, and to win he would have to carry Texas. So he chose his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination that year, Senate Majority leader Lyndon B. Johnson, as his running mate. Their backgrounds and pre-1960 legislative records were different. There is no evidence that they even liked each other.
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