Election 2024
Bekah Congdon | 7.25.2024 12:55 PM
A tumultuous decade of politics just culminated in a fortnight where the former president was nearly assassinated and the current president and presumptive Democratic nominee announced that he was withdrawing from the race—just three and a half months before Election Day. Barring another sudden unexpected twist, the next major political news will be who the new presumptive Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris, picks as her running mate. After all we've been through, Americans deserve a boring veep option, if only to provide some hope that this chaos will one day dissipate.
Here are three candidates who could bring a little blessed boredom to the Democratic ticket:
Gov. Andy Beshear
"Like eating vanilla ice cream with no topping"
Andy Beshear, the Democratic governor of the otherwise reliably red Kentucky, was first elected in 2019, besting incumbent Gov. Matt Bevin by fewer than 5,000 votes. By 2023, he had gained bipartisan support and won reelection by more than 67,000 votes. Beshear doesn't often make national headlines, yet recent polls show his approval rating at 65 percent, the fourth highest among governors and the highest of any Democratic governor.
His base appreciates that he vetoed a 15-week abortion ban (which was later overturned by Kentucky's GOP-controlled General Assembly). Republicans like that he has twice lowered the state's income tax rate. Even Libertarians can find some common ground with Beshear: While Kentucky's........