For Biden VP, Black Democrats are torn between Harris and Warren
The California senator represents the diversity and generational transition activists want, but polls suggest Black Democratic voters may prefer Warren.
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden is under pressure to pick a Black woman as his vice presidential running mate. But polls suggest the most popular prospect among Black Democrats is white.
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., are widely seen by Democratic officials and activists close to the process as front-runners, though other candidates remain in the mix and a Biden aide told NBC News that "the process is dynamic and ongoing and no final decision has been made."
The two senators and former Biden presidential rivals have reached an advanced vetting stage that suggests they are formidable contenders, according to multiple people familiar with the process. Both women held fundraisers with Biden this month, with Warren’s event raising $6 million and Harris’s event $3.5 million.
In a CBS News poll last month, Warren topped the list of prospects that Democrats wanted Biden to consider, followed by Harris. Warren even led among Black Democrats — 72 percent said she should be considered, with 60 percent saying the same of Harris.
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In a Morning Consult poll last month, 24 percent of Black voters said a Warren pick would make them more likely to vote for Biden, while 19 percent said the same of a Harris pick.
A Civiqs-Data For Progress poll this month found that Stacey Abrams, a former Georgia legislator and gubernatorial candidate, is the top preference of Black Democrats. (Abrams said two weeks ago she hadn’t heard from Biden's team.) Next was Warren, five points ahead of Harris.
Other women of color who have received attention include New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham; Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla.; Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif.; and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms...
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-vp-black-democrats-are-torn-between-harris-warren-n1232312
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She is now the preferred VP pick of nearly every demographic including amongst all Democratic voters, and specifically black and Hispanic voters.
Link to entire poll - > https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/cjd35jrh5o/econTabReport.pdf
That was very thoughtful of you to post. Thanks, Gothmog! 
She's a former National Security Advisor and US ambassador to the UN under Obama's administration.
The way I see it, Biden as POTUS and Rice as VOPTUS can split up the duties of mending the fences among allies home and abroad, Biden on the domestic end, Rice on the international end.
And believe me, there's a real Herculean task of cleaning up the stables ahead of them.
She would not be giving up a legislative seat like others would have to.
Plus, she's 55 years old.
Just sayin'
#newrostrong
those goals great and small that FDR approved and told her to make happen. The power in the executive branch is the president's to delegate as he or she decides, and all the New Dealers he appointed had to sell him on their recommendations.
So no one's talking about a renegade VP who'd have to be escorted out of the WH and deposited on the nearest golf course. 
Especially Warren, who's a big believer in using establishment power to the max, not blowing it up.
. . .as well as a former National Security Advisor.
#newrostrong
