#KalPenn thinks Vice President #KamalaHarris should pick Transportation Secretary #PeteButtigieg to be her running mate, making the case in an opinion piece for Esquire. While Penn’s best known as an actor, he also worked in White House outreach under President Barack Obama during both of his terms in office, as well as on both of the former president’s campaigns. Penn pointed to how Obama won the presidency in making his argument, writing that it was “in part because of his ability to raise policy expectations and expand the electorate.” “That’s where, in 2024, Pete Buttigieg comes in,” Penn’s piece reads. “A son of the Midwest, Buttigieg is a former Rust Belt Mayor, a polyglot and a Navy veteran, and for the past three and a half years, he has served as secretary of transportation. He has the highest name recognition and favorability of anyone on Vice President Harris’s shortlist.” Buttigieg built much of that name recognition by running for the 2020 Democratic nomination, but he’...