• just_another_person@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    Uhhhh, no…

    Harvard Grad, Oxford Rhodes Scholar, who then went into US Naval Intelligence Reserve, became a mayor, deployed while mayor to Afghanistan, then came back and decided he wanted to keep doing public service, ran for US President, and is now Transportation Secretary and Cabinet Member.

    Sounds like a pretty fucking solid resume to me.

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      3 months ago

      Ivory tower elite who became mayor of a nothing city in his 20s with less than 11k votes, sweet talked Party Bosses enough to get the nepotism cabinet slot formerly given to Mitch McConnell’s wife and Bob Dole’s wife.

      I like him, I just don’t think he’d be a good VP pick. Let him run for Michigan’s US Senator (or Governor if Whitmer runs for president), now that he lives there. Winning statewide in a swing state is a resume builder.