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Harris and Klobuchar are probably on Joe Biden’s short list for Vice President….

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This dog is going with Sen. Amy Klobuchar as the pick…

She fits the bill as someone who would loyal and could step into the presidency if need be…

While Sen. Kamala Harris was my first choice for Biden’s pick?

Several things I see as negatives have come up…

The primary reason for Harris to be in the final round is her mixed race….

East Indian and American Black…

But that isn’t so important really…

Joe Biden WAS Barak Obama’s Vice President….

In South Carolina , where Biden essentially won the Democratic nomination?

He BEAT Harris hands down….

Biden also will Obama covering his back…

Harris also has some turbulence from blacks in California for her actions as a DA and Attorney General there …

She has slo just aligned herself with Bernie Sanders $2,000 a month payout to Americans that didn’t even make the final new Pelosi stimulus bill rollout…

Sen. Klobuchar on the other hand has more positives for Biden…

Longer time in the US Senate….

MidWesterner form Minnesota …

Good debater….

Not a media hound…

Biggest Plus?

Someone who could work BOTH sides of the aisles with Congress, something  Joe Biden WILL be doing to the chagrin of progressive Democrats of the Sanders vein…

The Minnesota US Senator DID have some staff issues during the campaign though….

As the vice presidential search intensifies, Harris and Klobuchar are widely seen as two of the leading contenders, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. The vetting process will determine whether they remain in the top tier at the end of the search.
Since both ran for president, most aspects of their backgrounds are already well known, but the research for a vice presidential selection could be far more rigorous, invasive and different than their presidential bids. Teams of lawyers will be assigned to look into their histories, particularly focusing on their respective records as prosecutors in California and Minnesota, along with financial information and personal backgrounds.
One area of exploration that could also face Klobuchar is a deeper dive into questions of how she has treated her staff over the years, which became an issue at the beginning of her presidential race. Allies of Klobuchar downplay the matter, saying her political strengths in places Democrats need to win, along with an ability to immediately help Biden govern, would outweigh any prior complaints about her management style or temperament. During the primary campaign, Klobuchar acknowledged that she sometimes pushed her staff too hard and attributed those complaints to her high standards.
“This may be one of the biggest targets of the vetting process, trying to get to the bottom of Senator Klobuchar’s staff issues,” said a longtime Biden ally who is not involved in the search and believes either senator would make a strong choice. “In the end, Joe will have to decide whether it matters or not after he sees what the vet turns up.”
The prospect of Harris and Klobuchar being seen as the leading choices has also reignited old rivalries from the primary campaign and set off something of a below-the-radar lobbying campaign, people close to both teams say. Since the moment Biden pledged during a March debate to choose a woman as his running mate, the competition has slowly escalated as supporters of both senators have been quietly pushing their respective strengths and weaknesses….

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  1. I would like to see Mary C Daily of the San Francisco Fed as his VP. I listened to her speak about the economy last week on Bloomberg and she was amazing…I know she is an economist, but she is one that is really grounded to reality and not simply and academic. Talk about having a VP that would be good for the economy…

    I am sure she isn’t even on anyone’s list other than mine, but I could listen to her speak all day as she had a great way of communicating. Would be a bipartisan pick and a great story..high school drop out to Fed Chair…to VP…shit I would rather her as president than Biden…

    She probably wouldn’t help in minority demographics (but honestly, Trump has helped ensure that most minorities won’t vote for him anyway, the ones that due, well they must be blind and deaf because that is lunacy (that could go for anyoen still supporting this guy as well)), but she is lesbian, woman, white and comes from mid-west working class family…

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