Joe Biden should consider an early running-mate announcement. But who should it be? ed_kilgore writes
Surprise! Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer/Courtesy of Biden and Yang Campaigns It’s not unusual to wonder if a presidential candidate who has no clear path to the nomination is actually “running to be vice-president,” as my colleague Sarah Jones said of Pete Buttigieg in a chat yesterday. And it’s not unprecedented for a nominee to choose a running mate from the ranks of former rivals.
Now, Joe Biden is the sort of person who probably flatters every pol he talks to with that sort of suggestion. But an unconventional running mate like Yang would in fact provide some balance for the man who spent 44 years serving in or presiding over the United States Senate. I somehow doubt Biden’s policy brain trust is going to sign off on Yang’s signature Universal Basic Income proposal, though. But perhaps Biden should be thinking long and hard about a veep.
“Balance” is an overrated trope in vice-presidential selection, but candidates do have different qualities and the degree to which Abrams’s complements Biden’s is very striking: old/young, white/black, male/female, North/South, experience/potential. Biden-Buttigieg Mayor Pete doesn’t offer gender diversity either, nor racial/ethnic diversity for that matter, but since he’s openly gay and married, it’s not like he’d represent a doubling down on plain vanilla if Biden were to choose him. He’s from the Midwest, arguably where 2020 will be decided; he’s a military veteran and an observant and outspoken Christian; and at 37, he’s less than half Biden’s age.
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