On Saturday’s edition of The Weekend, MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson, in a segment devoted to Kamala Harris’s possible VP picks, took not-so-subtle shots at Josh Shapiro.
Johnson began by saying that some of the possible candidates would be momentum killers for the campaign, causing the Washington Post and the New York Times to run headlines about “Kamala’s first stumble and Dems in disarray.”
You’d have thought that the hosts would press Johnson to name names on those momentum-killing candidates — but they didn’t.
But reading between the lines, it wasn’t too hard to discern who Johnson had in mind: Shapiro.
He gave upsides and downsides on three of the possible candidates: Pete Buttigieg, Mark Kelly, and Shapiro. But the drawbacks on Kelly and Buttigieg were mild. Kelly might have problems with labor — but he’s been able to “pivot” on those issues. Does…
