Trump may have gotten the best Republican performance amongst black voters since 1960 while facing Obama's VP who himself was picked by black voters over her in the primary. Descriptive representation doesn't seem what it's cracked up to be...
I agree. Researches show VP picks hardly matter. But without her, Biden might have lost even more black voters. It still couldn't have hurt to send Harris to GA. And Biden did not do that horribly with black voters. Polls were showing as much as 15-18% of black voters going to Trump but it seems like that did not materialize in the end.
...but it's probably still better than picking a guy who pandered incompetently to that demographic at the Democratic debate.
I didn't want Beto. His strength is far too geared toward Millennials and progressives.
I'll start: Duckworth, Baldwin, Whitmer, Hilda Solis, probably Abrams when it comes to actually turning out black voters although she'd have her own downsides, to name just a few and limit the pool to female characters according to Biden's original promise.
It's about combination of demographics and name recognition. My anecdotal observation in some house races in NJ/NY is that non-white voters are significantly more likely to turn out for a candidate if they share the ancestry/race. White voters are indifferent to the race of their candidates.
Abrams would have been a good fit for GA only but I doubt she is viewed positively in Midwest. Hilda Solis lacks name recognition. Baldwin hurts Biden with her status as LGBT in the south. I'll give you Duckworth and Whitmer, but I doubt Biden would have won GA with them, given how close the state is. Given that Duckworth and Harris are both half-Asians, I'd rather take Harris and gain more Indian voters.
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