Thursday, March 19, 2020

Biden’s Top 12 Running Mates, Ranked

"He says he’s going to pick a woman. So which woman should it be?"
"Joe Biden embraces social distancing for 2020 Presidential campaign."
Politico  "Joe Biden’s unequivocal declaration that his running mate will be a woman began the 2020 veepstakes with a brutal cut. There will be no consolation prize for Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg or Julián Castro. There will be no unity ticket pairing Biden with Bernie Sanders. Mansplainers and manspreaders, you can go home. Joe has binders full of women.
"Perhaps there has never been a more serious veepstakes than this one. Biden won’t say on the record that he would serve only one term as president, but he has given enough hints that many have assumed it. That makes his vice presidential choice the automatic frontrunner for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination and potentially the first female president of the United States. This is no time for your last-call, falling-off-your-bar-stool, so-crazy-it-just-might-work vice-presidential musings.
"Already, some names Biden has casually thrown out are nonstarters. Senator Jeanne Shaheen is highly accomplished as a former governor of New Hampshire, but Biden should not team up with a fellow septuagenarian. Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates is a fun name to bat around, but getting fired by Donald Trump is not a qualification to be a COVID-19 diagnosis away from being commander in chief.
"Beyond a plausible president, the 77-year-old Biden needs a running mate who can help him either win the critical Midwestern states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin or energize the more racially diverse generations of young voters, who could help not only in Midwest cities but also in swing states such as Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina and Florida.
"Who can fit the bill? My rankings, on a scale from Sarah Palin to LBJ carrying Texas for JFK:"... .Full article...

Trump wanted to bury Biden after the primary. Now he can’t.
"The former vice president gets a reprieve from the Mitt Romney treatment."
"President Donald Trump’s top political advisers in recent weeks envisioned unleashing a massive advertising campaign against Joe Biden to define him for the general election before he had a chance to recover from the primary.
"Then the novel coronavirus arrived." . . .

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