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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 sure it’s as big an issue as pundits are making it out to be. NYT ran a story today showing over 80 per cent of voters feel the race of the VP candidate should not be influenced by race. Even among black voters only 20 per cent said it’s important that the VP candidate is black.
Biden very likely will pick a woman of colour. But this is just another example of the media class being dramatically out of step with most voters.