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Originally Posted by rubecube
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.
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I'm not arguing for who he should pick. I'm just more raising the question of how much polling may shift once Biden makes a VP pick. If right now the polling is a reflection of a lot of politically centrist racists and misogynists not having anything to hate in Biden's ticket, those people could swing back to Trump once they're given someone sufficiently dark-skinned and sufficiently female to hate.