‘Scott, Scott, Scott’: Jamie Gangel Tells Fellow CNN Panelist the ‘Real’ Reason Harris Didn’t Choose Shapiro

CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel told CNN commentator Scott Jennings the real reason why Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was not picked as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate on Tuesday after Jennings suggested it was due to anti-Semitism.

After Harris announced on Tuesday that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz would serve as her 2024 running mate, Jennings – a former staffer for President George W. Bush – claimed on CNN that Harris couldn’t pick Shapiro “because the party is somewhat awash in anti-Semitism.”

“Kamala Harris absolutely bowed down to the radical left in her party by not picking Shapiro, who is Jewish. There was a nasty campaign run against him,” he said. “Everybody knows it, no one wants to admit it, but everybody knows it, and she wound up choosing the person who was not Jewish and not as talented.”

A few minutes later, as Jennings tried to interrupt former Obama senior adviser David Axelrod, who rejected Jennings’ assertion, Gangel raised her hand and protested:

Scott, Scott, Scott. One moment, take the beat. I think it’s important to add to that two things that we have from our reporting. One is that even going into this selection, Josh Shapiro had some, let’s just say, hesitancy or questions about whether he wanted to be the number two. You may remember that three weeks ago, there were a lot of people who were not sure that Kamala Harris was going to be the most exciting ticket. It feels very different now, and he is someone who definitely has ambitions to run and he was looking at down the road.

And we have new reporting tonight from our team that, in fact, when he went into his vetting meeting and also in his in-person meeting with Harris, he made it very clear what kind of vice president he wanted this to be. It was much more of a two for the price of one. He wants to be in the room. He wanted to have a real say in these things.

Gangel concluded, “There are sources we’ve talked to who feel that in those meetings, Shapiro sort of set the stage not to be picked as her number two.”

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