I think it's gonna be Susan Rice.

[Celerity]

96. hard pass on Klobuchar (I do agree on Rice and Benghazi, I was amongst the first to bring that up)

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5 points on Klobuchar and why she is close to the worst of the top 11 or 12

1. She is the most problematic with PoC of the 11 or so frontrunners (she polled worse that Buttigieg did with A-A's and does not have a great legal background when it comes to race-related justice issues from her time as Hennepin County Attorney.) She also, at one point, she had voted for nearly 2/3rds of Trump's judicial nominees, some of them who were clearly unqualified.

2. She lacks the temperament, IMHO, based off her past interactions with staff and subordinates, which was on exhibit in the last several debates.

3. She would be the most antagonistic pick in regards to the left half (NOT just the far left Sanders people) of the party as she ran one of the most hostile-to-progressives primaries (only surpassed by Hickenlooper, Delaney, and Bloomberg IMHO.)

4. She adds little in terms of energising and attracting the under 45yo vote (she polled very poorly with them the entire primary campaign), which is a pre-existing issue with Biden himself. She is low on the charisma scale compared to others.

5. I think the entire 'she will bring the Midwest for sure' angle is overrated, as she did fairly poorly in Iowa (5th place), which is adjacent to Minnesota. I think she brings little to the table in terms of winning Florida (a massively crucial state) as well, the same for North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Arizona, and Nevada (5th place). She only won 3% of the vote in SC, a heavily A-A primary.


Stacey Abrams (who does have some weaknesses I do admit) is the closest to a candidate who would help the most with almost all of those issues, but I would go with most all of the other top 10 or 11 over Klobuchar as well. Klobuchar has Kaine 2016 written all over her, with many of the same potential downsides. This is not the election to play 'let's ram in the most centrist VP pick of all the 11 or so favourites, and also the one with arguably the poorest strength amongst PoC and younger voters' games with.