Joe Biden cabinet speculation megathread

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

All I ask is that he chooses Warren for something. Please.

Or even better, choose Warren AND Pressley

Warren is more useful in the Senate imo.

I suspect MM hopes he chooses both Warren and Pressley so JKIII can take the former's Senate seat. 

I'd agree with your assessment for most Cabinet roles, but if she were offered Secretary of the Treasury, that'd be a job worth taking.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

This might open up a potentially competative senate race.

In Delaware?

If it could happen in Massachusetts it could happen anywhere.

Outlier election is an outlier election. Is Alabama going to start voting for Democrats now because Doug Jones won in 2017?

Coakley was never a Roy Moore-tier candidate and trends are relevant to MA's current level of partisanship as lfromnj has gone into. I'll go further, though; I don't think one could fully count out MA flipping in a regular election if Baker was the Republican nominee, the Democratic candidate was weak and the national environment was red enough.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

Biden pretty clearly has a set of Republicans he'd like to highlight as "what the Republican party should be"

Not too surprising to see him "considering" them for his cabinet.  If nothing else it boosts their profile.

If he earnestly wants the Republican Party to move in that direction, manoeuvres like this are almost certainly counterproductive given how much GOP energy currently revolves around doing the opposite of whatever "the libs" want.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

Nobody with a Republican Governor is allowed to be in the cabinet, sorry. We can't risk losing our majority, which will likely be very narrow.

While I agree that he needs to be careful in the potential consideration of Senators from states with GOP governors, Dems in MA control a supermajority in the state legislature and can change the rule easily.

The same is true in VT. When will this talking point die?

The special elections are another matter. Both would heavily favour Democrats even in a Biden midterm, but neither would be guarantees in the way CT, IL or NY would be today.