How Joe Biden's leading VP contenders stack up in the wake of George Floyd's death
Joe Biden's options for his running mate may have narrowed even further in the wake of mass protests across the country in reaction to the death of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer.
As the Floyd protests continue, and the 2020 election five months away, political observers are now paying more attention to Biden's potential running mate as President Donald Trump's response to the crisis comes under fire. The protests have also sparked a new wave of public lobbying for Biden to pick a black woman to be vice president.
poll shows voters believe she would give the apparent Democratic nominee the biggest boost with voters under 45, and blacks and Hispanics.Sen. Amy Klobuchar "It's very bad and not good," an ally of Klobuchar's who was recently pushing her to Biden's team as the ideal choice, told CNBC. "The pickings are slim and this could push Val Demings up," this person noted, who declined to be named as these efforts have been made in private.with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, Klobuchar admitted that, in hindsight, she made a wrong choice not to take on those cases herself as a prosecutor.
Her record came under fire as the state's top cop when she went against Biden and a plethora of other Democrats in the primary. And political strategists believe that her record as a prosecutor may come under siege again in the wake of Floyd's death. "In my view, Biden will satisfy more of the Democratic base by choosing a black woman — energized women of all races and energized black men and women – than he does from a Midwest white woman," said Julie Zebrak, a political fundraiser and Harris supporter.She recently tweeted out a photo of Biden's deceased son Beau Biden in honoring the five year anniversary of his death.
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