Joe Biden selects Senator Kamala Harris as his VP Pick

[The ADD]

How Biden Chose Harris: A Search That Forged New Stars, Friends and Rivalries

Mandatory read for all of us who debated this for months

 

[THE MACHINE]

 

[THE MACHINE]

Fox poll

 

[winb83]

Birtherism is back.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

How Biden Chose Harris: A Search That Forged New Stars, Friends and Rivalries

Mandatory read for all of us who debated this for months

phenomenal article

interesting to see they had concerns over duckworth's eligibility

 

[The ADD]

phenomenal article

interesting to see they had concerns over duckworth's eligibility

Makes sense with what fukkboi pulled today with Harris

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Makes sense with what fukkboi pulled today with Harris

my mother was born to an american father overseas but had to apply for us citizenship later on. she was initially granted citizenship of the country she was born in. they fukked that one up

 

[King Kreole]

How Biden Chose Harris: A Search That Forged New Stars, Friends and Rivalries

Mandatory read for all of us who debated this for months

Yet no other candidate scored as highly with Mr. Biden’s selection committee on so many of their core criteria for choosing a running mate, including her ability to help Mr. Biden win in November, her strength as a debater, her qualifications for governing and the racial diversity she would bring to the ticket. No other candidate seemed to match the political moment better.

The potential for conflict between Biden and Harris advisers was resolved in another way, at least for now: Mr. Biden and his advisers made plain to Ms. Harris that they expected to have the same understanding with respect to staff hiring that Mr. Biden had followed with former President Barack Obama. During the campaign and, if they win, during a Biden-Harris administration, Ms. Harris’s staff hiring would be approved by Mr. Biden.

Well, there it is. No way Elizabeth "personnel is policy" Warren would have agreed to this shyt.

 

[re'up]

he intended to win the election in the Midwest, Mr. Biden told them, even if he were to fall short in Florida.

This caught my eye from the NY Times piece

 

[Shogun]

He’s a Russian Nazi, they said.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

How Biden Chose Harris: A Search That Forged New Stars, Friends and Rivalries

 

[FAH1223]

How Biden Chose Harris: A Search That Forged New Stars, Friends and Rivalries

Mandatory read for all of us who debated this for months

The Duckworth thing got me

Biden doesn’t know Karen Bass well but sounds like if he did, he may have picked her despite the Cuba baggage. Biden in that article is firmly focused on winning the election in the Midwest even if FL comes up short.

Joe and Jill love Val Demings and think she’d be good to challenge Marco Rubio in 2022.

Well, there it is. No way Elizabeth "personnel is policy" Warren would have agreed to this shyt.

Yup. But with regards to Kamala it’s probably better for her. As we saw, her campaign was a shid show. Which shows a lack of management on her part.

 

[Worthless Loser]

he intended to win the election in the Midwest, Mr. Biden told them, even if he were to fall short in Florida.

This caught my eye from the NY Times piece

This quote, combined with the heat Kamala had with Biden's sister and wife over how hard she went at Joe tells me that if George Floyd never happened, he would have picked Big Gretch or Amy Klobuchar. Amy would have been Tim Kaine 2.0 and neither candidate would have generated the excitement and money Kamala generated.

 

[Piff Perkins]

This quote, combined with the heat Kamala had with Biden's sister and wife over how hard she went at Joe tells me that if George Floyd never happened, he would have picked Big Gretch or Amy Klobuchar. Amy would have been Tim Kaine 2.0 and neither candidate would have generated the excitement and money Kamala generated.

True but it’s not a bad strategy at all. If you secure the Midwest, Trump has no path. Just winning MI and PA gets Biden to 269. After that he just needs one swing state.

I say compete in Florida but it is not the focus. Biden doesn’t need it.

 

[dtownreppin214]

How Biden Chose Harris: A Search That Forged New Stars, Friends and Rivalries

The tone of this article is pretty negative towards Harris. They make her out to be the choice solely b/c of race and that some of the other candidates disqualifying circumstances. That there still seems to be some mistrust there between Biden's circle and Harris' entourage. Looks like Harris had to pretty much bend the knee to get the spot.

It also reads like Tammy would have been the pick if not for this....

Ms. Duckworth was regarded by Biden advisers as among the candidates likeliest to help him achieve a smashing electoral victory in November. But legal advisers to the campaign expressed urgent concern that Ms. Duckworth could face challenges to her nomination in court: She was born overseas, to an American father and a Thai mother. While Mr. Biden’s team believed Ms. Duckworth was eligible for national office, campaign lawyers feared that it would take just one partisan judge in one swing state to throw the whole Democratic ticket off the ballot.

Also this is frustrating to read...no George Floyd, Demmings is probably the pick. @Warren Moon @*DalMem*

One candidate who did forge such a bond with both Joe and Jill Biden was Representative Val Demings of Florida, a former Orlando police chief whom one adviser said the Bidens “loved.” Ms. Demings’s background in law enforcement may have hindered her in the vice-presidential search — Mr. Biden was briefed on specific allegations of police misconduct on her watch — but some Biden advisers are hopeful she will challenge Senator Marco Rubio in the 2022 election.