Why Gretchen Whitmer's stock is rising with Team Biden

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7. She is a strong candidate

My suspicion is that anyone floated as the VP nominee is not the VP nominee because that is the historical trend. Gore, Quayle, Biden, even Cheney (selecting himself) were surprises.

If you don't like one of the former presidential candidates (Harris, Klobuchar, Warren) as the nominee because they remain also-rans, and if you don't like sitting governors because they are managing state crises, you have a wider, lesser known field.

My guess remains that Biden will not go for anyone other than those above, or former Senators and Governors. Representatives don't have the national C.V. or executive experience in government. And Biden will choose someone from government. I doubt very very much he would select someone from the field of business after the current Trump debacle. Business people have no business running governments.

So from my dim corner, unless someone can point to an outside-Senate, outside-sitting governor candidate, my gut remains on Amy.