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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is the strong favorite to be selected as the Democrats' 2024 vice-presidential nominee, according to a prominent betting website.
PredictIt.org is selling shares in Shapiro receiving this accolade at 70¢ each, compared with 12¢ for Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, 9¢ for Arizona Senator Mark Kelly and 5¢ for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Each PredictIt share is worth $1 if you guess the correct outcome, with shares selling at between 1¢ and 99¢ depending on the probability of an event taking place.
President Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential election and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris on July 21. Over the next few days, Harris picked up the support of enough Democratic National Convention delegates to establish herself as the party's presumptive 2024 nominee, sparking renewed interest in who her running mate could be.
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On Wednesday, speculation that Harris would pick a governor as her running mate surged after Axios reported her campaign was urging financial backers to make contributions before they are announced, citing a rule limiting donations to tickets including a sitting governor. Speaking to reporters later that day Harris said she had not made a final decision on her running mate.
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In an X post on Wednesday, Philadelphia Magazine political writer Ernest Owens said: "I'm hearing from Philly Democratic Party members at their weekly luncheon today that Josh Shapiro is going to be Kamala Harris's VP pick and that local unions pulled for him.
"Apparently, her campaign is trying to get Wall Street to pour more money before announcing him."
Newsweek contacted the office of Shapiro and representatives of Harris for comment by email on Thursday outside of regular office hours.
Harris is due to begin a tour of battleground states with a rally in Philadelphia on August 6, triggering speculation online she will use the occasion to announce the state's Governor Shapiro as her running mate. However the vice president's campaign insisted her schedule was unrelated to the choice of her vice-presidential nominee when contacted by The New York Times.
Pennsylvania comes with 20 Electoral College votes and is widely expected to be one of the decisive states in the 2024 presidential election. The Keystone State backed Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election before switching support to Biden in 2020.
Speaking to The New York Times in May, Shapiro, who is Jewish, hit out at antisemitic rhetoric that he claimed had accompanied some pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses in the preceding months.
He said: "If you had a group of white supremacists camped out and yelling racial slurs every day, that would be met with a different response than antisemites camped out, yelling antisemitic tropes."
A survey of eligible voters who already planned to vote for Harris conducted exclusively for Newsweek on July 29 found Secretary Buttigieg and Senator Kelly were the most popular vice-presidential picks, with 17 percent each.
They were followed by Shapiro on 11 percent and Beshear on 7 percent.
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