# Biden's choice for vice presidential candidate **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 10, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505 "2020-04-10T15:04:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 22
**Author:** ![putnam6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/putnam6/32/4082_2.png) [@putnam6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/putnam6)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505/421 "2020-07-29T02:07:48Z")
FWIW Politico had a blurb that was quickly scrubbed that the pick is Kamala Harris saw this reference on twitter and Politico says it apologizes. looking for link… https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/kamala-harris-joe-bidens-pick-for-vice-president-seemingly-revealed-by-politico-blunder/news-story/b769762b95986e8b2b4d883a09aea67b ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505/422 "2020-07-29T09:32:19Z")
I wouldn’t mind Harris, but I think she’s the AG that Biden will need. I think he’ll pick Rice, leaving Warren for another cabinet position. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505/423 "2020-07-29T13:37:46Z")
Pick is named next week ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505/424 "2020-07-29T15:24:28Z")
> [@Win\_Place\_Show](#): > > You know why, right? > > [Biden’s “overseen” notes](https://apnews.com/d3fc8b88cde56bac9f1e7b5e494fb019) Innnnnnnnteresting. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505/425 "2020-07-29T16:11:02Z")
Same here. Rice as VP, Harris as AG and Warren as something important, like Labor or HHS. Or Commerce. Let her loose on everybody who took bail-out money. State and Defense are the big question marks. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505/426 "2020-07-29T16:24:48Z")
I’d like to see Warren at Treasury (even if Barney Frank wouldn’t), and several years ago thought this retired Navy admiral could make a great (and the first female and first POC) SECDEF: [Michelle Howard - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Howard) ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505/427 "2020-07-29T16:56:34Z")
I don’t think there is any chance in Hell that Warren leaves her Senate position to head up Labor or HHS. I don’t think she’d even take Treasury. Y’all are underestimating the power that a Senator has. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505/428 "2020-07-29T17:01:49Z")
I’m w/ those above - my preference would be Rice VP, Harris AG. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505/429 "2020-07-29T18:04:53Z")
I’m on this bandwagon as well. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505/430 "2020-07-29T18:23:32Z")
I agree. Especially over time: she can be a senator for 20 years, if she wants. And I want her there, honestly. Especially since Massachusetts has a Republican governor. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505/431 "2020-07-30T04:13:12Z")
> [@Win\_Place\_Show](#): > > You know why, right? > > [Biden’s “overseen” notes](https://apnews.com/d3fc8b88cde56bac9f1e7b5e494fb019) I know the political world is all a-twitter that this tips his hand that she’s “the one,” but I actually think it tips his hand that she’s out of the running. She’s probably the one that he gets asked about the most by journalists. So if you’re his campaign communications person, you want him to say the _ **CORRECT THING** _, not flub the answer in regard to someone you will be leaning on heavily to help you on the campaign trail…after you announce someone else as your running mate. You don’t necessarily want to snub her twice in one week-- once with a flubbed answer to the media, and again when you announce Val Demings or Karen Bass as your veep. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505/432 "2020-07-30T05:55:48Z")
I really have no idea who he’s going to pick, but I’m getting nervous as the big moment approaches (even though, yes, historically it hasn’t mattered much). Like many here, Rice is my top choice, but I’ll be relieved if it’s almost anyone but Warren. Duckworth would not be great either. If it’s not Rice, I’d be happy with Whitmer or Lujan Grisham. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505/433 "2020-07-30T07:49:18Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I take it by the quotes you mean her name. “Barack Hussein Obama” didn’t have a conventional-sounding name either. I remember when Gerald Ford picked Bob Dole as his running mate, and for about a week it was HAR HAR PINEAPPLES YUK YUK BOB DOLE PINEAPPLE! Then everyone forgot about it. People can get used to any name. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505/434 "2020-07-30T13:57:32Z")
Conservative columnist George Will says Biden’s election will end our national nightmare 2.0: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bidens-election-will-end-national-nightmare-20/2020/07/28/f9c01df0-d0f7-11ea-9038-af089b63ac21\_story.html](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bidens-election-will-end-national-nightmare-20/2020/07/28/f9c01df0-d0f7-11ea-9038-af089b63ac21_story.html) ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505/435 "2020-07-30T13:59:55Z")
Please share a representative quote for the subscription-deprived! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505/436 "2020-07-30T14:07:53Z")
> [@](#): > > Joe Biden’s election will end national nightmare 2.0, the nation’s second domestic debacle in two generations. Hell, [Thomas Hobbes](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Hobbes) supposedly [said](https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/hell-is-truth-seen-too-late/), is truth seen too late, and in 2020, the nation, having seen it in the nick of time, will select for the Oval Office someone who, having [served](https://ballotpedia.org/Joe_Biden) 36 years 16 blocks to the east, knows this: A complex nation cannot be governed well without the lubricating conciliations of a healthy legislative life. > > Biden won the Democrats’ nomination by soundly defeating rivals who favored — or, pandering, said they favored — a number of niche fixations (e.g., abolishing ICE, defunding police). He clinched his nomination [earlier](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-clinches-the-democratic-nomination-after-securing-more-than-1991-delegates/2020/06/09/ee8a4e66-a7e3-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_4)and [easier](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/us/politics/biden-sanders-fund-raising.html)than did the winners in the Democrats’ most recent intensely contested nomination competitions (Barack Obama against Hillary Clinton in 2008; Clinton against Bernie Sanders in 2016). ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505/437 "2020-07-30T14:11:34Z")
Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505/438 "2020-07-30T14:18:20Z")
I remember no such thing. Bob Dole was a respected Republican Senator, I don’t recall anyone childish enough to remark on the coincidence that he shares a name with a pineapple producer. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505/439 "2020-07-30T14:39:36Z")
I do, and I was a child at the time! ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505/440 "2020-07-30T15:54:30Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > As long as Biden’s numbers stay like they are I doubt BHJ will self-deploy until Sept/Oct. > [@DrDeth](#): > > BHJ? whodat? > [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > Barak H. Obama. @Kolak_of_Twilo : Acryonyms, monograms, initials are not your superpower. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-choice-for-vice-presidential-candidate/851505.md?page=23)