I mean maybe at the time the expectation was that presidential candidates would win their states regardless of the states partisanship, but clearly that is long dead.
But the poster is correct - should Harris lose PA by less than 1% the decision to pick Walz over Shapiro will loom enormous.
And Al Gore should have won Tennessee.
You're certainly right about the post mortem in that case, but it'll just be pundits talking to talk. Too many variables.
I mean maybe at the time the expectation was that presidential candidates would win their states regardless of the states partisanship, but clearly that is long dead.
But the poster is correct - should Harris lose PA by less than 1% the decision to pick Walz over Shapiro will loom enormous.