Overview
- In excerpts from his forthcoming memoir, Where We Keep the Light, Josh Shapiro says senior aide Dana Remus asked whether he had ever been an agent of the Israeli government and whether he had communicated with undercover Israeli operatives.
- Shapiro writes that he found the questions offensive even as he describes the sessions as professional, and he wonders if other contenders faced the same Israel-focused scrutiny.
- He says he withdrew from vice‑presidential consideration after a tense one‑on‑one with Kamala Harris over policy differences, and she later selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
- Initial reports note that a spokesperson for Harris did not respond to requests for comment and that Remus could not be reached.
- The book is due out January 27, and the account has revived discussion of the vetting’s political fallout, including Harris’s roughly 120,000‑vote loss in Pennsylvania.