No one could seriously question her qualifications to assume the responsibilities of the presidency if necessary.Yet Rice comes with the baggage of the Benghazi affair. She came across as cold and unwelcoming, and she was never really able to gain a steady foothold in the race.
Biden’s vetters should find out whether there are more shoes that could drop. A Biden-Harris ticket could aggressively pursue the Upper Midwest, the Southeast and the Southwest, from Maine to Montana, from Arizona to South Carolina. She will have no problem echoing Biden’s themes. He was not pardoned. She showed she had pull in Trump-curious Minnesota, helping throw the state to Biden.
While serving as a lieutenant colonel in the Iraq War, she was in a helicopter that was hit by a grenade. But Biden is running as the candidate of reassurance.
If he is running for just one term, as a transitional president to something more progressive, then Harris is the likelier choice, because she can come out of that administration ready to go and begin the push further left.
She incinerated Mike Bloomberg and she has declined to endorse Bernie Sanders.
Paul Ryan couldn’t deliver Wisconsin to Mitt Romney.
Her political résumé is thin: She is in only her third year in the House. John Edwards couldn’t deliver North Carolina to John Kerry. During her bid for Senate in 2016, Duckworth settled an embarrassing lawsuit accusing her of workplace retaliation when she led Illinois’ Department of Veterans Affairs, a position she was appointed to by then-Governor Rod Blagojevich. Besides, if Warren wants a job with real power that could clamp down on bad behavior from Wall Street, she should lobby for Treasury secretary or attorney general.Susan Rice may be the African American Democrat with the most national security experience in the country, having served for the entirety of Barack Obama’s administration, first as ambassador to the United Nations then as national security adviser. She was grievously wounded and had both of her legs amputated. In the last two weeks, we’ve seen some last-minute pushes and a lot of behind-the-scenes whispers come to light, but it seems as though there are really two names people are worried about.Former high-ranking Democratic Party officials and elected officials have expressed concerns about her to the vetting committee in recent weeks, according to four sources who’ve spoken to the Biden vetting team.The interviews for this article revealed a contingent of Democrats who are lobbying against Harris for VP — some privately, some openly.
After just one year in office, the Democratic governor of Kansas has managed to strike an agreement with the Republican leader of the state Senate for a bill that takes advantage of the federal aid offered in Obamacare, expands Medicaid and covers an estimated 130,000 uninsured Kansans. But perhaps the biggest downside is that her ascendance to the vice presidency would create a Senate If Biden really feels he needs help with flipping Midwest states, Amy Klobuchar is the safest pick. Rice, like Biden, is beholden to the Obama family for her political opportunity right now.Of course, no one really votes for President based on a candidate’s running mate, but there is something different about this election: Joe Biden is not a great messenger for himself. She wrongly calculated, in the initial stages of the campaign, that she needed to lean further left than she was comfortable doing. Allegations of staff mistreatment tainted the start of her campaign, though no one ever went on the record. And her tenure as police chief is not unblemished.
Joe Biden has promised to choose a woman as his running mate, with Kamala Harris, Karen Bass, Tammy Duckworth and Susan Rice among the rumoured frontrunners for the job. Harris might be someone who changes things up a bit in order to secure her own legacy. But she didn’t fail because of her stump skills. Then again, this is politics.
In the last two weeks, we’ve seen some last-minute pushes and a lot of behind-the-scenes whispers come to light, but it seems as though there are really two names people are worried about. Besides, who was the last VP to flip a state? She held her own on the debate stage. ET Being white, Baldwin wouldn’t give the ticket a multicultural image, and that could deflate some younger voters. But complaints on the left are an inevitable, and manageable, annoyance. In the mix are Kamala Harris, Val Demings, Karen Bass, Elizabeth Warren, Susan Rice and others.
When she While Lujan Grisham is the only Latina governor, Nevada’s Cortez Masto is the only Latina senator.
If Biden’s performance with Latinos is limp on Tuesday, then he should give Cortez Masto and Lujan Grisham, both Arizona neighbors, close looks.The Thai-American senator from Illinois has a gripping biography. Toward the end of her bid, she let her inner pragmatist shine. But the plain fact remains that the pinnacle of her government service is as a state House minority leader.
Where she struggled—as did all the candidates who weren’t men in their 70s with preexisting bases of support—was with carving out a distinct ideological profile.