-She's a veteran, and she can help bring in the military vote. The military may be on the fence already for a bunch of reasons (Vindman and his brother, the captain of that Navy ship who rang alarm bells to save his crew stricken with COVID-19, and then almost got fired --I can't remember his name, but he was extremely popular; Russian bounty on US military in Afghanistan).
-She's a pit bull (and I mean that in all respect). Biden can take the "high ground", and she'll call "cadet bone spurs" to Trump's face. She's tough and scrappy, and we need that.
-Because of the two points above, still-very-misogynistic Americans are probably more likely to support a woman as VP, especially given Biden's advanced age and likeliness of the VP assuming the top spot at some point soon.
-She's Thai-born, which still qualifies her to be POTUS (dad was a US Army and Marine vet). And given trump's racism toward Asian Americans ("China Virus"
, she can fight back on that as well as score points as a person of color.
Every other "short-lister" has some kind of downside, as I see it:
I love Harris, but being from a liberal state doesn't help, and her prosecutor past may receive backlash from our own side (including BLM) given the state of policing these days. She'd make an EXCELLENT AG though!
And Rice has the most foreign policy experience by a mile. But Benghazi will get dragged into it, and I can't remember, but there is other baggage that we don't need. Plus she's pretty hawkish. Just MHO.
I also love Abrams and Demings, but not enough experience (Demings also could face backlash from Miami excessive force issues, again, could cause internal BLM problems that we can't afford).
And I love Warren, who's eminently qualified, but we really have to have a woman of color this cycle. Unfortunately for Warren, but I'd bet she'd be okay with that.
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