Biden VP news megathread (pg 286 - been selected, announcement could be today)

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Lol at the berners in the comments

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https://twitter.com/tperry518/status/1252580201437028358?s=20

Why are dems wasting their time on Harrison? Why doesn't she campaign for Ossof or Warnock instead?

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Clyburn is full of bologna. The nominee is not going to be a white woman. My guess is Warren isn't even being considered, Whitmers been a governor for a little over a year, and Klobuchars successor would have to run in a Biden midterm and that puts another seat into play.
I think the top 4 are
Harris, Demings, Duckworth and Masto.

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I don't think she has Obama level skills with turnout though.

Politicians like Obama come once every 50 years. Comparing everyone to him, like they did before 2008 with JFK, is counterproductive.

No kidding. When people were gawking over Pete and comparing him to Obama, I was thinking you've got to be kidding, right?

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I find it a little disappointing Rep. Nanette Barragan is never mentioned as vice presidential hopeful, although she would be a pretty good pick. I know she's not the most experienced in terms of years in Washington, but if Val Demings is (rightfully) considered, why not her? Both were first elected in 2016. Barragan is definitely more qualified for the job than Stacey Abrams. While she isn't from a battleground state, she represents a crucial demographic constituency (Hispanics, especially of Mexican heritage). Joe Biden needs them to turn out in huge numbers. At 44 on election day, she also offers generational balance to the ticket and is a good public speaker. And she's progressive, but not too far left either. If I were advising the Biden campaign, I would definitely take a strong look at her for the second spot.

She's probably a contender for Appointment to Kamalas seat.

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Warren is not being chosen. Period. It makes her recent pandering look even more pathetic.

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Warren is a disaster waiting to happen. I dont know why people think she would be a good running mate.

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https://twitter.com/Carrasquillo/status/1278725154906963968

B-b-butt Kamala lost the hispanic vote against a hispanic woman in 2016!

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Rice would be fine in a position that didn't require an election. Like SoS. And as long as we have a plurality of votes, it wouldn't matter about "MUH BENGHAZI"

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Bass was on Fox News Sunday this morning, and talked about being ready to be veep, and also addressed differences between her and Biden over health reform:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-vp-hopeful-bass-regrets-past-castro-comment

“I think anybody that is willing to become vice president, if they’re invited, should be ready and I think that I am,” Bass said.

Bass has a different position on health care from Biden. She is in favor of "Medicare-for-all," while Biden supports having a public option without doing away with private insurance. Bass denied saying that Biden has the wrong idea, while still maintaining that the country should move toward having health care as a right for all.

“No, I don’t think that the vice president is wrong at all,” Bass said. “What I do believe in is that health care should be a right. I think that we should be like the rest of the industrial nations and provide health care. But what I believe specifically is that we need to repair the damage that was done and has been done over the last ten years to the Affordable Care Act. We need to repair the damage, we need to expand that, and then over time we need to figure as a nation, how do we make health care as a right for everyone.”

I think this effectively eliminates her. "Simpatico"

She was never being chosen. Anti Kamala people are desperate

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https://twitter.com/AdamGreen/status/1289955970551107586?s=19 hmm

What the heck did he expect her to say? That she supports violent protestors?
Some people really live in fantasy world.

Of course. Because remember kids, Silence is Violence but actual violence is a-okay! #woke

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I thought that Bass had a shot to become speaker when Pelosi retired.
Not likely anymore.

It’s going to be Hakeem Jeffries

Better him then Hoyer

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I'd wager Biden personally wants rice but his advisors are telling him that would be a horrible idea