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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
If Biden picks a progressive woman of colour, will that fire up the politically centrist racists and misogynists to swing support back to Trump? If Biden doesn't at least pick a progressive woman, that would hurt a lot of enthusiasm on the left. Even a white, progressive woman like Warren would maybe fire up Trump's base as the caricature of her is already well developed. If Biden went with Bernie as a maximally old white man tag team, would Trump's base feel less hatred on account of them being so white, so male and so old?
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There is zero upside to picking Warren. She's a culture warrior who pretty much alienated everyone. Centrists don't like her and neither do progressives. She's basically a non-entity with minority voters.
He can't realistically pick Bernie either. The optics would be horrible even if it would satisfy some of the twitter crowd.
Biden needs a high minority voter turnout on election day to win. The smart move is to go for a woman of colour who leans a bit more to the left than Biden does.