Vice President Kamala Harris is likely to select a running mate from swing states if she becomes the Democratic party’s presidential nominee, said Sean Stafford, associate professor from the centre for the sociology of organisation at Science Po. “The two options are really to pick somebody from a ‘purple’ state, or swing state, so that would be Michigan, Pennsylvania ... or else a democratic governor is an otherwise red state, somebody who’s figured out how to speak to that middle group of voters who this election is going to come down to,” Stafford said, citing namely Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro, Governor of Kentucky Andy Beshear and Governor of North Carolina Roy Cooper.
