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The Nicole Shanahan Announcement And RFK’s Route To The White House

The Nicole Shanahan Announcement And RFK’s Route To The White House

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Mar 28, 2024
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When John F. Kennedy chose his running mate in 1960, he was not in the ideological check-the-box business. He was in the race to win, and to do that he needed the 26 electoral votes of Texas and to retain as many of the 101 electoral votes in the rest of the historic “Solid South” as possible.

Needless to say, leading Democrat contenders for the VP nod l…

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