Last-minute contenders for Joe Biden’s vice-presidential selection have emerged, but the California senator is still the front-runner
Ticket-bound? Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Karen Bass is the latest in a line of last-minute contenders to be Joe Biden’s running mate, but longtime front-runner Kamala Harris may not have too much to worry about. I chatted vice-presidential intrigue with political columnists Jonathan Chait and Ed Kilgore.
But I don’t see the payoff to Bass in subjecting her to coverage in which she is forced to make statements like “I am not a communist.” How is this process reputation-enhancing? To be clear, I think Bass is a well-regarded legislator. But she is just not prepared for a national election. Ed: In any event, I agree a minimal vet should have at least exposed her Cuba connection, which, while not that controversial nationally among Democrats, is a terrible fit for an election that might revolve around Florida. Suffice it to say that if the risk of picking Rice is that Republicans might depict Biden as the senile puppet of the deep state, the choice of Bass would snuggle nicely into the preexisting claim that he’s the senile puppet of the radical left.
Jon: Right, but you’re picking somebody who has a very strong chance to become the 2024 nominee and then president, so you don’t want that person to be bad at campaigning and governing. Ed: Well, if debate moderators hadn’t insisted on spending a third of every session going through the details of Medicare for All — that was madness, too.
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