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2026-01-19 Home Front: Politix
Pennsylvania’s Shapiro: Harris team asked if I’d ever been ‘a double agent for Israel’
[IsraelTimes] Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro says in a new book that during his vetting by Kamala Harris
former senatrix from California, 2020 Dem presidential hopeful and ultimately Joe Biden's intended successor
’s team as a potential vice presidential candidate for the 2024 US election, he was asked whether he had at any time "been a double agent for Israel."

Excerpts from Shapiro’s book "Where We Keep the Light" were reported on by The New York Times

...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

and The Atlantic.

The Jewish Shapiro recalls being highly offended by the question
…because its offensive…
("Was she kidding?") and intensely uneasy with the general process, which included more questions regarding his positions that have been generally supportive of Israel.
Just as well he wasn’t tapped. Look at the result on Governor Tim Walz’s creer trajectory.
He says that the fact he was asked this "said a lot about some of the people around [Harris]."
Not to mention about Candidate Kamala herself.
"I wondered whether these questions were being posed to just me — the only Jewish guy in the running — or if everyone who had not held a federal office was being grilled about Israel in the same way," he says.

"These sessions were completely professional and businesslike," Shapiro says.
…not if they were asking questions like that…
"But I just had a knot in my stomach through all of it."

Harris eventually picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz
...Kamala's smarmy-looking VP running mate, governor of Minnesota and self-admitted knucklehead, who decided to retire rather than to deploy with his National Guard unit, then claimed to have been in Iraq and Afghanistan. One man's socialism is another man's neighborliness....
as her running mate,
…a perfect match made in Hell, as the final vote proved…
and the two went on to lose the general election to Donald Trump
...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried....


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Posted by trailing wife 2026-01-19 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1858 views ]  Top

1 Sounds like the Harris search for a VP might have started and ended with vodka.
Posted by Super Hose 2026-01-19 04:47||   2026-01-19 04:47|| Front Page Top

2 Nah. They're not that hard up.
Posted by Mercutio 2026-01-19 09:29||   2026-01-19 09:29|| Front Page Top

3  about some of the people around

Those are called main line Democrats these days.
The septic tank is getting full, time to start pumping.

Posted by alanc 2026-01-19 10:07||   2026-01-19 10:07|| Front Page Top

4 So, what was his answer?
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2026-01-19 19:12||   2026-01-19 19:12|| Front Page Top

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