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BluesRunTheGame

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11. Besides choosing someone who's qualified...

Sun Aug 9, 2020, 08:22 PM

Aug 2020

...the most important criteria is electability.

If Biden doesn’t run in 2024 and his VP choice decides to run, becomes our nominee, and loses....we’re fucked. We can’t afford to give the White House back to the Republicans in 4 years.

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So, what if he chooses a White woman? [View all] trof Aug 2020 OP

If he does, I hope that POC will accept her and be enthusiastic. Funtatlaguy Aug 2020 #1

How about white people ? POC will support the ticket. It's white people JI7 Aug 2020 #10

+1000. nt ecstatic Aug 2020 #52

Mistake. Clyburn got him back in business...he owes the AA community. It's only right. Karadeniz Aug 2020 #2

OK, tell me about that. I missed it. trof Aug 2020 #4

If not for African Americans he would have lost South Carolina DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2020 #5

My recollection is that Clyburn said he didn't care marybourg Aug 2020 #18

Sounds like Clyburn empedocles Aug 2020 #27

That can be arranged. LisaL Aug 2020 #29

Long overdue. And a sitting SC justice is probably more important than VP Buckeyeblue Aug 2020 #34

That's what he thought. marybourg Aug 2020 #48

An all-white ticket in the party of diversity in this time of racial reckoning? brush Aug 2020 #3

+1. Hoyt Aug 2020 #8

Amen DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2020 #19

+2 crickets Aug 2020 #44

Hopefully White People will vote for that ticket as much as black people will JI7 Aug 2020 #6

I hate pitting women of color and white women against each other in competition. LizBeth Aug 2020 #7

Me too. LisaL Aug 2020 #9

Totally agree. nt Raine Aug 2020 #15

I totally share your sentiment. nt Blue_true Aug 2020 #39

Besides choosing someone who's qualified... BluesRunTheGame Aug 2020 #11

VP is not indicative of a 2024 run. Doesn't hurt but Sec of State and other position allows someone LizBeth Aug 2020 #13

They almost always run. They always get the nomination. Then... BluesRunTheGame Aug 2020 #17

Technically I think Biden was the last one ;) nt mr_lebowski Aug 2020 #23

Biden was the last VP and was Sec of State that was our nominee in 2016. LizBeth Aug 2020 #26

"Alben Barkley was the last Democratic Vice President that declined to seek the nomination" mr_lebowski Aug 2020 #31

Ya... I was taking it further is all. LizBeth Aug 2020 #35

Well yeah. He didn't run in '16. BluesRunTheGame Aug 2020 #32

WOC would be a plus LSparkle Aug 2020 #12

I'd be disappointed in him. WhiteTara Aug 2020 #14

I'll still campaign vigorously and vote for him. There is no other choice. tinrobot Aug 2020 #16

Who really cares? MrScorpio Aug 2020 #20

Black women care - Joy Reid covers this a lot womanofthehills Aug 2020 #56

The pros and cons depend on who the nominee is... brooklynite Aug 2020 #21

I'd still vote for him even if he chose Joe Lieberman... Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2020 #22

I'm gonna have nightmares! BluesRunTheGame Aug 2020 #25

Lol! It would cause me to pause while voting. Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2020 #30

I'd be disappointed, but I'll still vote for him... Wounded Bear Aug 2020 #24

Net positive votes brought to the Dem tickets is a key consideration empedocles Aug 2020 #28

My guess is he doesn't do that. My money is on Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico. Blue_true Aug 2020 #33

No way - she even said she wasn't interested womanofthehills Aug 2020 #57

Who cares? imanamerican63 Aug 2020 #36

This! nt Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2020 #37

The ONLY thing that I care about with the running mate choice, Crunchy Frog Aug 2020 #38

I would prefer for Biden to choose a black or Latinx man. Laelth Aug 2020 #40

I agree with your themes but the numbers are too high Awsi Dooger Aug 2020 #45

Julian would have been good, but he messed up in the debates LeftInTX Aug 2020 #54

Don't care. Not fighing about it. I'm voting for Biden. That's it. Iggo Aug 2020 #41

Bravo! imanamerican63 Aug 2020 #42

Same here DFW Aug 2020 #61

My enthusiasm is solely about getting Trump out hurl Aug 2020 #43

I know he will make a good choice Doreen Aug 2020 #46

Tammy Duckworth..would be the only one of the 4 running for the Executive Office who served .. Peacetrain Aug 2020 #47

Yes and as a disabled woman Tammy would also fall into a category of people who face totodeinhere Aug 2020 #50

but what does Tammy stand for? SiliconValley_Dem Aug 2020 #59

I trust Joe to make a great choice and I am not going to dictate to him who I think it should be totodeinhere Aug 2020 #49

It depends on whether the voter has been Rice4VP Aug 2020 #51

If it is a white woman I prefer Warren JonLP24 Aug 2020 #53

Don't care DFW Aug 2020 #55

he will have kept his promise to pick a woman as his running mate SiliconValley_Dem Aug 2020 #58

Bad idea. smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #60

Or a mixed race asian woman disabled vet? whistler162 Aug 2020 #62