Several high-profile Republicans seized on Vice President Kamala Harris’s choice of Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) as her running mate, suggesting antisemitism in the Democratic Party influenced her decision not to choose a Jewish running mate in Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA).   

GOP vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) told reporters in Philadelphia on Tuesday that it seemed like Harris didn’t select Shapiro because Democrats were concerned “grassroots activists in their party wouldn’t take a Jewish nominee.”