I don’t want him to run either.
But it looks like he is using the old “compassionate conservative” playbook. which to me basically is the same thing as a big government liberal.
Yep.
He’s fine here, given the purplish nature of the state, but...I’d only like to see him run, as a foil pushing serious contenders to the right...while positioning himself for a down ticket slot..
Playing the electability card (my anticipation of his reasoning)..makes him a good VP choice, (an excellent one actually, given his prior Hill exp...) but no more.
And one wonders if he is enough of a realist to know, that is really his ceiling...