They’re going to pick someone who is popular in a purple state, and is going to help calm people who want to see someone more mainstream. I’d love a progressive, but it’s going to be a straight white male from a purple state. I’ll be super surprised if it’s anything else. And I get it: the #1 objective here is to win, and every decision has to be predicated on that.
And besides, AOC is really young and will have lots of opportunities.
Why not AOC? Really need some young blood and someone who is progressive. She also meets constitutional age requirements now.
I’d love AoC for pres, and consolation prize of VP. (Don’t tell the corpo dems this but the VP job is usually a political dead end…)
The reality is you need to pick VPs defensively. Some one who makes a good presidential candidate generally doesn’t make a good VP candidate.
As much as I like AoC… I don’t mind Kelly.
It used to be the setup job, you did VP before president.
I like AOC. But two women of color, one who is super progressive, sounds like a massive risk.
They’re going to pick someone who is popular in a purple state, and is going to help calm people who want to see someone more mainstream. I’d love a progressive, but it’s going to be a straight white male from a purple state. I’ll be super surprised if it’s anything else. And I get it: the #1 objective here is to win, and every decision has to be predicated on that.
And besides, AOC is really young and will have lots of opportunities.