Biden running mate search zeroes in on group that includes at least four black women

[SoonerPride]

Joe Biden’s search for a running mate has advanced to the next phase as his campaign conducts more extensive reviews of some prospects, including at least several African American women, according to people with knowledge of the situation.


Among the candidates who have progressed to the point of more comprehensive vetting or have the potential to do so are Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.), former national security adviser Susan E. Rice and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, all of whom are black. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who is white, is also in that group, as is New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who is Latina.


The pool of prospects remains fluid, and some close Biden allies suggested other contenders could also face the more intensive vetting process. The people describing the situation spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive private conversations and an evolving search process.
The Biden campaign declined to comment. Biden has vowed to choose a woman, and Biden has repeatedly stressed that he wants a running mate who is “simpatico” with him.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-running-mate-search-zeroes-in-on-group-that-includes-at-least-four-black-women/2020/06/13/d7278434-aceb-11ea-9063-e69bd6520940_story.html

[marble falls]

1. Kamala Harris ...

Val Demings, Susan E. Rice, Keisha Lance Bottoms, Stacy Abrams, Elizabeth Warren or Michelle Lujan Grisham. Yeah definitively.

Anyone of them have Mike Pence's abilities in a nail clipping from their little fingers.

[SoonerPride]

3. That's my guess too

[spinbaby]

5. Not Stacey Abrams?

I’d think she’d be on the list. Harris is my favorite, but I really like Abrams, too.

[marble falls]

6. So would a lot of others. Stacy Abrams wasn't on the list, she is now. D'ja see her on Colbert?

[BComplex]

13. You and I feel the same. Warren is #1, and Abrams is also #1. They're both awesome women.

And both of them can handle the job of being president. Wall Street hates Warren, and racists hate Abrams. Wall Street has more power; racists have more numbers.

[gulliver]

18. She and Demings would be great. Rice too.

I would be happy with Harris or Demings. I would be happier with the brilliant Rice, but I think she would coax a lot of yahoos to the voting booth. She just had a fantastic editorial in WaPo (I think) calling for statehood for DC. I want Warren to replace McConnell as Senate Majority Leader.

[Trumpocalypse]

24. Is Schumer retiring?

If not, then he would be Majority Leader if Dems win control of the Senate. If he is then Durbin is next in line, not Warren.

[avebury]

30. Having read the book on Pelosi

I am not as impressed with Schumer as I thought I once was. I want a Senate Majority Leader who can be the Senate version of Pelosi.

Nancy Pelosinhas been the biggest savior of this country in the Trump era.

[Trumpocalypse]

32. That's up to the Senators to decide

and including Durbin there are several ahead of Warren.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Good article--thanks for posting it! n/t

[Trumpocalypse]

4. She doesn't help in any swing states

Her history as a prosecutor won’t attract progressives or energize African Americans. And her attitude on Biden during the debates are a GOP ad that writes itself.

Anyone of the others are better choices.

[marble falls]

7. meh. Biden wasn't my first choice, either but I love him now, I'd crawl over glass to get to ...

vote FOR him. Anyone who votes Trump or sits home over Harris is a member of a small assed group.

Would YOU vote Trump or stay home Nov 3 over a VP Harris?????

[Trumpocalypse]

12. I wouldn't but

I know others who are not fans of Biden and won’t be enthusiastic enough to come out to vote if the VP pick doesn’t excite them. Remember millions of Obama supporters stayed home in 16, many of them African Americans. Clinton didn’t excite them and neither did Kaine.

[BComplex]

14. That's more of an issue than people on DU are willing to admit. The people need to be excited

over whomever he picks. We definitely need someone as the VP pick that folks can fall in love with.

[Trumpocalypse]

16. Exactly

The two people you have pictured in your post would do that. Unfortunately in the current climate it probably needs to be an African American woman. Just not sure who that is.

[BComplex]

17. I'd love to see Katie Porter on the Supreme Court.

She's young, and she gets better every time I see her speak.

[Blasphemer]

19. I might have thought so a few months ago, but not anymore

This election is no longer about Trump and Biden. It's a referendum on the United States of America. Everyone is either voting in favor of trying to make the ideals the country was supposedly founded on true or voting to kill them forever and cease the pretense. I think Biden's VP pick is completely irreverent.

[JI7]

20. Anyone who needs to be convinced to vote for Biden right now is NOT a progressive

[Trumpocalypse]

21. Unfortunately there are many

who are just not that enthusiastic about Biden. It’s not good enough to just say vote against Trump, they need a reason to be enthusiastic about the ticket.

[JI7]

22. And those types are NOT progressives .

[Trumpocalypse]

23. Call them whatever you want

but we shouldn't ignore them. We did in 16 and look what happened.

[JI7]

25. what happened in 16 was Russian attacks on the election

and the so called progressives you mention supporting trump.

[RhodeIslandOne]

27. Nah, they actually thought Trump "wouldn't be that bad"

Fucking idiots.

[RhodeIslandOne]

26. They are more importantly flat out fucking dumb.

Yeah, I said it.

It's like turning down a fresh bottle of whole milk because you'll stick with drinking the curdled 2% in the fridge.

[Hortensis]

8. I'm ticked that "just" being a woman is dismissed by so many

as having nothing to do with equality for black people. As for others, like Hispanics, they're usually not even mentioned.

Women are half of every demographic in the nation.

Women are more intransigently discriminated against than men of any race. Many great black female achievers have said that of being a woman and being black, they felt being a woman was the greater handicap. Of course. There's a reason, one reason, black men were given the vote by white men 50 years before women and were accessing high-level jobs while women college graduates were funneled to the "elite" jobs reserved for them, like stewardess and secretary to high-level executives. They were men.

It is not possible to achieve equality for any race or ethnic group if equality for their female half has not also been achieved.

In this era, the Republican Party has been taken over by white male supremacists who've been purging and blocking women from positions of power, and they are using the courts to attack women's equality everywhere they can. It's not coincidental that some on the left of all races haven't advanced much beyond the black militants of the 1970s who called on black women to contribute by churning out black babies; @10% fewer black male Georgia Democrats voted for Stacey Abrams than voted for Obama. Hillary Clinton -- kill the witch! on the right, I just don't like her on the left. Misogyny is still huge and comes from everywhere, and as does the denial and hiding of its huge threat to equality of all.

A hundred years after we finally got the vote, women's equality is not just still being considered secondary to skin color -- even here!, but is under major attack by the right busy doing all they can to reverse over 200 years of legal advances for women -- a stripping of power with every decision from every demographic in the nation, including females of the white male power party.

Our first woman VP of any race will be both a great advance in equality for all races and a direct attack on the right in this great battle for our futures. We should be very proud that we are on the verge of making it happen. To not be proud and fiercely committed to women's equality also is a horrible weakness to be exploited, and they always do.

[BComplex]

15. Thank you!

I couldn't have said it better myself!

[Baclava]

9. ...and Elizabeth Warren

[Owl]

11. Yes!

[Walleye]

10. Shirley Chisholm: Being a woman much bigger obstacle than being black.

Glass ceiling, people! Eyes on the prize.

[UTUSN]

28. Val DEMINGS is on The View now & is impressive, as also impressive Stacey is. Really *all* of them.

[GoCubsGo]

29. An embarrassment of riches.

While I have my preferences, I would no problem getting behind any one of them.

[Mike 03]

31. I'm so happy that Susan Rice is still in the mix