I don’t buy it….
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren ran against Joe Biden for the nomination from the Democratic Party…
They lost…
Both have endorsed Biden….
We still have progressive/lefties trying get the Sanders ‘movement’ to be the parties movement…
It isn’t…
Joe Biden needs a younger Vice President to help him win the election in November….
THAT is the main reason. he should pick someone he trusts and someone who CAN help him keep the Democratic vote, boost it , and YES grab BACK a few thousand of those who voted for Barack Obama, but deserted Hillary Clinton for Donald Trump….Those deserter’s weren’t many Bernie Sanders voters…
Joe Biden HAS been making nice to the ‘Bern’ and his supporters…
But Biden won the nomination by staying true to who he and Obama where for 8 years…
THAT should be the ‘way’ for him…
Not Sanders two time loser ‘way’……
And with what Biden will face if he wins?
Progressive ideology will take a back step to putting things back together to something they was back in in Obama/Biden days …
I have come to think that Joe Biden could very well pick Amy Klobuchar as his Vice President…I have moved from Kamala Harris as his who I think would be his choice…
If Biden wants to use his vice-presidential pick to amplify that message rather than broadening it, there’s an obvious choice who agrees with his theory of change, can offer insight into the states he needs to win and ultimately can help him govern: Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
Klobuchar easily surpasses the minimum requirements for the job. She’s been in the Senate for over 13 years. She ran a strong campaign for president in 2020, ultimately placing third in New Hampshire and proving she can deal with the rigors of a general-election campaign. And in her nearly year-long presidential campaign, no reporter or rival campaign found a major scandal or damning opposition research, other than stories about her being a tough boss and, like Biden, changing her stance on race and policing issues.
But unlike other former presidential candidates who also clear that bar, Klobuchar is a good fit for the Biden campaign. Klobuchar’s 2020 pitch was simple: She knows how to win swing voters and get liberal legislation through Congress because she does it all the time. She consistently posts eye-popping margins in Minnesota, where Hillary Clinton only eked out a 1.5-point win over Donald Trump. And according to a Vanderbilt University study, she was better at moving legislation through Congress than any other Democratic senator. This pragmatic, liberal, electability-driven appeal should sound familiar — it’s Biden’s pitch sans the gratuitous Obama name-dropping.
A Biden-Klobuchar ticket would let Biden be Biden, but in a good way. If Biden picked a progressive running mate such as Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren or California Sen. Kamala D. Harris, he’d have to deal with constant questions about why he and his vice president disagree so vehemently on so many issues. President Trump will call Biden a socialist — or at least a Trojan horse for socialism — no matter whom he puts on the ticket. But if Biden picked a bona fide progressive, some of those attacks might land harder….
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