From ‘genocide Josh’ to Israeli spy: Why Shapiro was left off the ticket

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Let’s face it, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was never going to be Kamala Harris’s running mate. He had shown too much Jewishness for the job. 

In his new memoir, “Where We Keep the Light,” Shapiro contends that during a vetting interview and after a string of “unnecessarily contentious” questions, Dana Remus, former Obama administration counsel, asked the governor if he was a “double agent for Israel” or whether he “communicated with an undercover agent of Israel?” 

When Shapiro responded that the