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The leading presidential candidates’ choices of running mates reveal their respective understandings of what voters want. In picking Mr Rigathi Gachagua, Deputy President William Ruto doubled down on insurgent populist politics.
Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s selection of Martha Karua hearkened to institutionalist reformist politics. The choices reveal four main lines of thought in the two campaigns.
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