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

[Tender Branson]

Tammy Duckworth anybody? Michelle Lujan Grisham?

Grisham has a scandal right now, just like Whitmer ...

[walleye26]

Tammy Duckworth anybody? Michelle Lujan Grisham?

Grisham has a scandal right now, just like Whitmer ...

I know about Whitmer, but is Grisham’s the jewelry thing?

[Orwell]

Tammy Duckworth anybody? Michelle Lujan Grisham?

Grisham has a scandal right now, just like Whitmer ...

I know about Whitmer, but is Grisham’s the jewelry thing?

What is Whitmer's scandal? The Protests? She has 62% approval rating on the issue.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Well that sucks.

[Non Swing Voter]

It's gonna be Kamala or Val Demings.  I still think Kamala though for a variety of reasons.

[NewYorkExpress]

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/499936-top-democratic-pollster-advised-biden-campaign-to-pick-warren-as-vp

One of the Democratic Party’s top pollsters gave a presentation to senior members of former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign earlier this month making the case that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) would provide the most upside as Biden’s running mate.

Stanley Greenberg, who advised the presidential campaigns of both former President Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore, presented a 14-deck slide to the Biden campaign detailing how the likely Democratic nominee needs to grow his support among young people and Democrats who did not support him during the primary.

I think Warren's unlikely in the sense that she'd overshadow Biden, but maybe Massachusetts is the place to go. How would you feel about putting Ed Markey on the ticket?

Um, being from Massachusetts isn't the reason Warren is a good pick. so Markey as a compromise pick makes no sense.

Markey is boring old and white and a man

He's also 73, almost certainly not going to run in his own right in 2024/2028, clearing the way for a younger progressive (who probably will be female) like AOC or Ayanna Pressley.

[Horus]

Harris, Warren and Duckworth are the only real choices at this point. Everyone else has too much baggage.

[American2020]

https://twitter.com/cliftonicwater/status/1266151559437537280

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

It's obvious the Tara Reade allegations,  even if they weren't true, Biden were hitting on more than 1 women with the allegations were announced last April; consequently,  it has put a damper on Biden's Veep options and now Biden has to go with his plan B option,  Warren.

I doubt Harris takes it, she says she wants to stay in Senate

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

https://twitter.com/cliftonicwater/status/1266151559437537280

Dang, that Warren boost in WI, MI, and AZ. What’s this based on? Is it real data or what?

[Morning in Atlas]

No way in hell Klobuchar gets nominated now.

[Tender Branson]

A Vice-President Demings is now needed more than ever.

She's a good cop role-model and motherly figure for young black males.

Not to mention she's from a swing state and would put GA, NC etc. more into play than a Warren or someone else.

[CookieDamage]

https://twitter.com/cliftonicwater/status/1266151559437537280

Need to see the data lmao this looks like just a pro-Warren thing

[roxas11]

It's obvious the Tara Reade allegations,  even if they weren't true, Biden were hitting on more than 1 women with the allegations were announced last April; consequently,  it has put a damper on Biden's Veep options and now Biden has to go with his plan B option,  Warren.

I doubt Harris takes it, she says she wants to stay in Senate

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[Beet]

Well, that does it. It's going to be Kamala. More awful news for our awful time.

[American2020]

https://twitter.com/postpolitics/status/1266309794257911810

[wbrocks67]

Not sure why anyone thought CCM was a realistic shot anyway

[wbrocks67]

A Vice-President Demings is now needed more than ever.

She's a good cop role-model and motherly figure for young black males.

Not to mention she's from a swing state and would put GA, NC etc. more into play than a Warren or someone else.

adding a literal cop to the ticket seems like a bad idea.

[Pheurton Skeurto]

A Vice-President Demings is now needed more than ever.

She's a good cop role-model and motherly figure for young black males.

Not to mention she's from a swing state and would put GA, NC etc. more into play than a Warren or someone else.

Can you stop asserting like you know what's best for black people?

[American2020]

The Unexpected Case for a Susan Rice Vice Presidency

Joe Biden’s concern about the national-security impact of the coronavirus has led him to weigh picking the Obama-administration national security adviser Susan Rice as his running mate, according to several people who’ve spoken privately with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in recent weeks.

Rice is well known in Washington, but has a much lower national profile than most of the other women being considered, and comes with few conventional political upsides. She isn’t particularly likely to be selected, people inside the campaign say (some who have spoken about her with Biden see her as a more likely pick for secretary of defense or secretary of state), and Rice has told confidants that she knows that.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/05/biden-vice-president-susan-rice/612115/

[American2020]

https://twitter.com/JTHVerhovek/status/1266352517165846529

[The Other Castro]

The Unexpected Case for a Susan Rice Vice Presidency

Joe Biden’s concern about the national-security impact of the coronavirus has led him to weigh picking the Obama-administration national security adviser Susan Rice as his running mate, according to several people who’ve spoken privately with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in recent weeks.

Rice is well known in Washington, but has a much lower national profile than most of the other women being considered, and comes with few conventional political upsides. She isn’t particularly likely to be selected, people inside the campaign say (some who have spoken about her with Biden see her as a more likely pick for secretary of defense or secretary of state), and Rice has told confidants that she knows that.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/05/biden-vice-president-susan-rice/612115/

A Rice VP pick would certainly be going against the grain.

[NewYorkExpress]

The Unexpected Case for a Susan Rice Vice Presidency

Joe Biden’s concern about the national-security impact of the coronavirus has led him to weigh picking the Obama-administration national security adviser Susan Rice as his running mate, according to several people who’ve spoken privately with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in recent weeks.

Rice is well known in Washington, but has a much lower national profile than most of the other women being considered, and comes with few conventional political upsides. She isn’t particularly likely to be selected, people inside the campaign say (some who have spoken about her with Biden see her as a more likely pick for secretary of defense or secretary of state), and Rice has told confidants that she knows that.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/05/biden-vice-president-susan-rice/612115/

Two Obama Administration officials on the ticket would probably turn off Independents, and in any event, if Biden were to pick any Obama cabinet member, I'd rather he pick either Hilda Solis or Julian Castro.

[SN2903]

Good news for Trump. Biden is weak with hispanics.

[American2020]

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1266355535252787201