The decision by Kamala Harris to choose Minnesota governor Tim Walz over Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro to be her running mate arrived like a political thunderbolt earlier this month. He seemed like a lock — the overwhelmingly popular governor of the most important swing state — so speculation swirled over why he was snubbed. Was it because he was Jewish and skipping him spared the outrage of anti-Israel activists on the left? Was it because he was too moderate on charter schools? Or was it simply because he just did not vibe with Harris the way Walz did?

Shapiro wasn’t dwelling on it in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention, but reporters were. On Tuesday morning, a gaggle of journalists surrounding him with television cameras and audio recorders asked yet again about why he wasn’t the vice presidential nominee. “Was his religion a factor in him not........

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