How Should Hillary Clinton Choose a Running Mate? Start With Chemistry

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Hillary Clinton with Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey in January in Iowa. Mr. Booker is among a number of ambitious Democrats jockeying to become Mrs. Clinton’s running mate. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times

By AMY CHOZICK and THOMAS KAPLANJUNE 19, 2016

In a college gymnasium this month in Newark, Senator Cory A. Booker introduced Hillary Clinton to the crowd.

It took him nearly 13 minutes. He piled praise on her and bashed her Republican rival, quoting Thomas Jefferson, Maya Angelou, Abraham Lincoln and even a 1980s song by Jon Bon Jovi, a New Jersey native.

“I hate to contradict Bon Jovi,” Mr. Booker said. “But dear God, Hillary Clinton, you give love a good name.”

Mrs. Clinton waved her arms in the air, as if marking the end of a tent revival that lasted a touch too long. She patted Mr. Booker on the back, a much less effusive embrace than the one she had given to Mr. Bon Jovi, who was standing nearby.

Ambitious Democrats like Mr. Booker have started to audition as their presumptive presidential nominee considers who should join her on the national ticket. There is much for Mrs. Clinton to consider, including competence, agreement on policy and geography.

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