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The Kamala Harris campaign may have provided a clue about who will be her running mate if she secures the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
Joe Biden stepped down from running in the November election on Sunday and, as the Vice President, Harris is presumed to be the most obvious choice as his replacement.
If this becomes official, she will need to pick a running mate and there is much speculation about this.
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Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear is one of the people believed to be a potential option and he has been posted about by Harris' campaign page on X, formerly Twitter, three times in just 24 hours.
One clip posted late on Monday night shows Beshear, who won the traditionally Republican stronghold in 2019, speaking to MSNBC News about Donald Trump's running mate JD Vance.
He says: "I want the American people to know what a Kentuckian is and what they look like—because let me just tell you that JD Vance ain't from here. The nerve that he has to call the people of Kentucky, of eastern Kentucky, lazy.
"Listen these are the hardworking coal miners that powered the Industrial Revolution, that created the strongest middle class the world has ever seen, that powered us through two world wars. We should be thanking them, not calling them lazy."
Beshear was referring to Vance's bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, which has received criticism for what some people believe is stereotyping the Appalachia region. For example, he writes that there are "too many young men immune to hard work."
Vance—who was born in Middletown, Ohio, but has family roots from eastern Kentucky—has already hit back at Beshear, scion of a Kentucky political family and son of a former governor.
He told POLITICO's Meridith McGraw: "It's very weird to have a guy whose first job was at his dad's law firm and inherited the governorship from his father criticize my origin story."
Kamala HQ shared two other clips from the same interview, including one where Beshear officially endorses Harris and sings her praises for her experiences prosecuting rapists and domestic abusers.
Another one shows a snippet of Beshear's interview with CNN, who described the governor as "widely being discussed as at the top of Harris' shortlist." Beshear targeted Vance in this discussion too, calling him "fake" for changing his opinion of Donald Trump.
"He has no conviction," Beshear said, "but I guess his running mate has 34," referring to Trump in May being found guilty of 34 felony charges of falsifying business records in a case related to a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump has repeatedly denied any criminal allegations against him and has insisted they are politically motivated.
While Kamala HQ's posting of three Beshear clips in such a short space of time could just be a response to the fact that these interviews have been conducted over the last 24 hours, it may also be a clue as to who she is seriously considering for her running mate.
Newsweek has contacted her campaign via email for comment.
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Other Democrats whispered to be on Harris' shortlist for vice president include Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly.
As a former California senator and attorney general with roots in San Francisco, Harris will likely look for a running mate that will help her regain momentum in swing states, which in recent weeks have started to turn in former President Donald Trump's favor.
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