Poll: Majority of voters say Biden's VP won't factor in 2020 vote
Joe Biden’s choice of a running mate is the talk of Washington, but a majority of American voters said Biden’s VP selection won’t affect their vote, according to a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday.
Fifty-four percent of respondents said that Biden’s running mate will have no impact on how they’ll cast their ballot. Only 16 percent said that it would have a “major impact” on their vote. Another 20 percent said it would have a “minor impact.”
Biden said he’ll announce his vice presidential selection after August 1, and many of the options have already appeared alongside him at campaign events and fundraisers, generating further speculation. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Biden’s one-time Democratic primary rivals, are often mentioned as top contenders, as is Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.), New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, and Susan Rice, the former Obama administration national security adviser.
The poll did find sustained support among Democrats for Biden to select a person of color as his running mate, with 45 percent of Democrats saying that would be important. In June, after George Floyd’s death galvanized a national protest movement around racial justice, 46 percent of Democrats said they preferred a person of color on the ticket — a 10-point jump over early April, when just 36 percent of Democrats said that would be important.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/15/joe-biden-vice-president-pick-poll-362900
