evidence: Two other governors – Tim Walz of Minnesota and Andy Beshear of Kentucky – remain under serious consideration. The US senator Mark Kelly of Arizona and Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, are reportedly on Harris’s shortlist, too. [...] According to Axios, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule in question is meant to "snuff out ‘pay-to-play’ schemes, where donors in the investing industry might seek to curry favor with the state officials who control the billions of dollars in state pension funds". The Harris campaign, the site said, has cited the SEC rule while "pressing Wall Street donors to cut their checks as soon as possible", leading some donors, eyeing a deadline under the rule, to "think they have until Sunday to get contributions in".