Biden's VP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully it's Harris.

I like Harris, but I know many who don't and she has high negatives in polling: https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Kamala_Harris
I think she'd be a risky choice and Biden is not known to be a risk taker.

[Anonymous]

Biden is doing a little worse with Blacks and much worse with Hispanics than Clinton in 2016:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/21/politics/joe-biden-black-voters/index.html


This will surely factor into his decision-making. I don't know what the answer is, but internal polling is being done to the nth degree no doubt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess he’s announcing around August 1st, so we don’t have terribly long to wait. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/07/21/joe-biden-vice-presidential-pick-what-you-need-know-decision/5472942002/

I don’t think anyone mentioned Masto at any point on this thread. This article says she was in the top 3 at one point but pulled herself from consideration.

She was discussed briefly maybe 10 pages or so back, but withdrew not long after her name was first floated.

Yes IIRC she’s in charge of the DSCC this cycle so she is focusing on flipping the Senate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully it's Harris.

I like Harris, but I know many who don't and she has high negatives in polling: https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Kamala_Harris
I think she'd be a risky choice and Biden is not known to be a risk taker.

If you look at the comments on any article about Harris, there are so many negative comments. I'd like to think many are from trolls, but it concerns me.

[Anonymous]

Nobody’s perfect.
Is Pence?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody’s perfect.
Is Pence?

To evangelicals he is. To the rest of the GOP he is inoffensive white bread and fits the "do no harm" ethic. To Trump, he's happy he'd never be overshadowed. So he was a solid pick according to basic VP criteria.

Not sure we have the equivalent of someone who would excite a key part of the base while "doing no harm" to the remaining constituencies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully it's Harris.

I like Harris, but I know many who don't and she has high negatives in polling: https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Kamala_Harris
I think she'd be a risky choice and Biden is not known to be a risk taker.

It will not be Harris.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody’s perfect.
Is Pence?

To evangelicals he is. To the rest of the GOP he is inoffensive white bread and fits the "do no harm" ethic. To Trump, he's happy he'd never be overshadowed. So he was a solid pick according to basic VP criteria.

Not sure we have the equivalent of someone who would excite a key part of the base while "doing no harm" to the remaining constituencies.

But to anyone who might like Republicans for the economic policy but isn't basically interested in the Christian version of Sharia law, Pence is a disaster. He let people die of HIV because he hates gay people. Is that who you want at the helm?

I think Harris is great. Demmings is great. Duckworth is great. They're all great. Trump is a gd disaster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully it's Harris.

I like Harris, but I know many who don't and she has high negatives in polling: https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Kamala_Harris
I think she'd be a risky choice and Biden is not known to be a risk taker.

If you look at the comments on any article about Harris, there are so many negative comments. I'd like to think many are from trolls, but it concerns me.

I have the same concerns. I’ll support whoever obviously, but I think she has a lot of serious negatives.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nonsense. Rice has brains, beauty, and personality. Of course she’ll outshine him. He’s fading fast and needs to pick someone that people can see being a capable president from day one (though Biden will probably make it to day 30 at least)

Would you want Susan Rice to run in 2024?

Unsure. I'm concerned she may not be a strong retail politician.

+1. It’s insanity to put a person on the ticket whose never been elected to anything. It’s not the same that she “campaigned” as a surrogate for Obama.

Also, Obama’s foreign policy wasn’t great and isn’t what you want to be re-hashing on the campaign trail.


TBH, I think the VP should be an African American woman because we need high turnout in the AA community. But, the best marriage on policy alone (not considering electability) would be Biden-Warren. We need her attention to the economy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nonsense. Rice has brains, beauty, and personality. Of course she’ll outshine him. He’s fading fast and needs to pick someone that people can see being a capable president from day one (though Biden will probably make it to day 30 at least)

Would you want Susan Rice to run in 2024?

Unsure. I'm concerned she may not be a strong retail politician.

+1. It’s insanity to put a person on the ticket whose never been elected to anything. It’s not the same that she “campaigned” as a surrogate for Obama.

Also, Obama’s foreign policy wasn’t great and isn’t what you want to be re-hashing on the campaign trail.


TBH, I think the VP should be an African American woman because we need high turnout in the AA community. But, the best marriage on policy alone (not considering electability) would be Biden-Warren. We need her attention to the economy.

who’s not whose^ sry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nonsense. Rice has brains, beauty, and personality. Of course she’ll outshine him. He’s fading fast and needs to pick someone that people can see being a capable president from day one (though Biden will probably make it to day 30 at least)

Would you want Susan Rice to run in 2024?

Unsure. I'm concerned she may not be a strong retail politician.

+1. It’s insanity to put a person on the ticket whose never been elected to anything. It’s not the same that she “campaigned” as a surrogate for Obama.

Also, Obama’s foreign policy wasn’t great and isn’t what you want to be re-hashing on the campaign trail.


TBH, I think the VP should be an African American woman because we need high turnout in the AA community. But, the best marriage on policy alone (not considering electability) would be Biden-Warren. We need her attention to the economy.

Also for gd's sake do you really want to keep relitigating Benghazi. Why not choose someone who hasn't already triggered 99 percent of Republicans in such an insane way - and who at the same time has built virtually no constituency within the Dem party?

[Anonymous]

The only candidate who makes sense to me in terms of both experience and cross-constituency appeal is Duckworth. Especially for swing voters. IF Biden selects a non-AA running mate, I think he could mitigate disappointment by releasing his AA cabinet (Rice and Harris...) and SC picks (Kruger) at the same time. Black voters aren't voting for VP in particular, they're voting for a whole administration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only candidate who makes sense to me in terms of both experience and cross-constituency appeal is Duckworth. Especially for swing voters. IF Biden selects a non-AA running mate, I think he could mitigate disappointment by releasing his AA cabinet (Rice and Harris...) and SC picks (Kruger) at the same time. Black voters aren't voting for VP in particular, they're voting for a whole administration.

I don’t actually Duckworth, at all. I don’t think she passes the readiness test at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only candidate who makes sense to me in terms of both experience and cross-constituency appeal is Duckworth. Especially for swing voters. IF Biden selects a non-AA running mate, I think he could mitigate disappointment by releasing his AA cabinet (Rice and Harris...) and SC picks (Kruger) at the same time. Black voters aren't voting for VP in particular, they're voting for a whole administration.

I don’t actually Duckworth, at all. I don’t think she passes the readiness test at all.

Why is that? I think she’s be a great choice to tick a lot of boxes (since that seems to be important to Biden): woman, minority, vet, a known name, etc.