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Mosby

(16,168 posts)
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 02:41 PM Apr 2020

If Biden is serious about winning, he should pick Tammy Baldwin as his running mate

In presidential elections, winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing. Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden can spend all day in his basement designing a fantasy platform, imagining his ideal Cabinet and drafting soaring speeches to heal our political divides — but it’ll all be for nothing if he fails to get 270 electoral votes.

That makes Biden’s equation for picking a running mate simple: He needs a qualified candidate who can help him win a key swing state such as Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania or Wisconsin. Every other consideration — age, ideological fit, working relationship — should take a back seat to this straightforward election math. And according to those numbers, Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin is the right, and arguably the only, choice.

Baldwin is obviously qualified: She’s been in the Senate since 2013 and was in the House for 14 years before that. She’d make history as the fourth woman — and the first out lesbian — on a presidential ticket for a major party. And, as a progressive, she’d bring ideological balance to the ticket.

But most important, she’s from Wisconsin: the state that gave Trump his 270th electoral vote in 2016. If Baldwin brought Biden a mere two points in Wisconsin, that would be a huge help.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/21/if-biden-is-serious-about-winning-he-should-pick-tammy-baldwin-his-running-mate/

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If Biden is serious about winning, he should pick Tammy Baldwin as his running mate (Original Post) Mosby Apr 2020 OP
Puts her seat at risk. RandySF Apr 2020 #1
Pretty sure he is serious. pwb Apr 2020 #2
You got the wrong Tammy. It should be Duckworth IMO mucifer Apr 2020 #3
Here is Bylers one on duckworth Mosby Apr 2020 #5
I agree she has the qualifications Jake Stern Apr 2020 #4
+1 crickets Apr 2020 #6
No too purple ...risk the senate seat...just no. Plenty of good choices. Demsrule86 Apr 2020 #7

mucifer

(23,374 posts)
3. You got the wrong Tammy. It should be Duckworth IMO
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 03:02 PM
Apr 2020

She is popular and her military experience appeals to moderates.

Jake Stern

(3,145 posts)
4. I agree she has the qualifications
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 03:08 PM
Apr 2020

but I'm loathe to see a Dem vacate her Senate seat in a state that broke for Trump.

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