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Mark Kelly seen as top contender for Harris’s veep, but there's one 'rather significant' problem · American Wire News
Former astronaut Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) is at the top of the list for Kamala Harris's running mate, but he has a Chinese balloon problem.
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Mark Kelly seen as top contender for Harris’s veep, but there’s one ‘rather significant’ problem
July 28, 2024 | Chris Donaldson | Print ArticleVice President Kamala Harris has already been crowned by her party and the media as their presumptive nominee and the attention now shifts to her running mate, with one name at the forefront.
Needing a token white man to offset her race-baiting radicalism, Harris is reportedly zeroing in on Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), a gun-grabbing former astronaut who could deliver a key swing state.
According to reports, vetting materials have been sent to Kelly, a favorite of coup leader Barack Obama who was allegedly the former president’s choice to head up the Democrat ticket until he was thwarted by quitter Joe Biden’s immediate endorsement of Harris.
But there’s one problem with Kelly, which could be a big one. He co-founded a company that makes high-altitude spy balloons that used funds from Chinese investors. A detail “buried” deep inside a lengthy New York Times puff piece touting Kelly’s “almost impossibly strong” resume.
“Mr. Kelly has also not faced the harsh spotlight of a national campaign, and has potential political liabilities like a high-altitude surveillance balloon company he helped found with Chinese venture capital,” the paper quotes GOP operative Daniel Scarpinato.
Last year, when a Chinese spy balloon was allowed to transverse nearly half of the U.S., Kelly’s ties to Chinese money were pointed out by Axios.
“Tucson-based World View, cofounded by now-U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly in 2012, received venture capital from Tencent — among the largest tech companies in China — both in 2013 and 2016,” the outlet reported. “Tencent, like most Chinese tech giants, has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.”
Those ties could be a major roadblock for Kelly and will almost certainly be fodder for Republican ads.
They know that it’s a potential problem too:
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Like all Democrats, Kelly has his priorities in order when it comes to Ukraine, the notoriously corrupt Eastern European dictatorship that’s been a sucking black hole for American taxpayer dollars under the Biden regime.
Kelly took aim at his Senate colleague and Trump running mate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) for daring to put America first over the foreign country that’s the top priority for the ruling regime – and most congressional Republicans too.
“It’s pretty clear to me you’ve got JD Vance who wants to totally abandon Ukraine, and you’ve got Donald Trump who has been in the past rather pro-Russia and leaned in with Vladimir Putin in ways I would never expect the president to do,” Kelly told Politico, smearing Vance as a Kremlin puppet. “So again, we have a serious choice to make, and I’d be really concerned about what those guys would do to abandon an ally in favor of an adversary. And that would be a much more dangerous world.”
Kelly would be a logical pick if the Democrats plan on the national crackdown on the Second Amendment that they’ve long sought to impose. His wife, former congresswoman Gabby Giffords nearly lost her life when she was shot in the head by a deranged gunman at an Arizona grocery store in 2011 during a deadly mass shooting event.
For that reason, Democrats and their media will do everything that they can to gloss over Kelly’s Chinese ties, just like they have worked diligently to erase failed “border czar” from Kamala’s resume
because reality was inconvenient to the woke agenda.
