Op-Ed: Biden faces pressure to pick a Black woman as his running mate. Who should it be? (via latimesopinion)
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden pledged months ago to pick a woman as his running mate. Now he’s under increasing pressure to make that pick a Black woman. Biden has no shortage of candidates if he goes that route, among them Sen. Kamala Harris of California, former national security advisor Susan Rice, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Rep. Val Demings of Florida and Rep. Karen Bass of Los Angeles.
Harris has repeatedly been named as Biden’s likeliest choice. She has name recognition, was a top state prosecutor and is a tough campaigner. But, like the other candidates, she also has liabilities. Chief among them, in the era of George Floyd, is her background as a prosecutor. Many Black voters are wary of someone on the prosecutor’s side of a justice system seen as racially biased and have loudly said so.
Abrams would have been at the center of the VP conversation if she had won the governorship in Georgia, which is fast becoming a key swing state. But she didn’t, which likely makes her a nonstarter.Bass is a staunch progressive, and the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. She’s been in the forefront of the charge against Trump’s policy wrecking ball on everything from healthcare to police abuse.
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