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‘How About the President Decides He’s Not Going to Run?’
Armando Iannucci’s Veep twist was oddly prescient. Here’s how he wrote the campaign that followed.
Naturally, scheduled to appear today is Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who played Selina Meyer, the fictional vice-president of the HBO political satire Veep who had her own “POTUS is not running” moment in 2013. Selina is preparing to accept her party’s nomination on the convention floor when she learns that her opponent has chosen Laura Montez, a popular New Mexico senator, as his running mate. Tom is an ideal candidate on paper: He has a reputation for getting things done in Washington, a son in the military who was wounded in combat, and an ability to appeal to people on both sides of the aisle.
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