# Biden's Running Mate Prediction Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 14, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482 "2020-03-14T15:59:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482/181 "2020-04-30T12:16:02Z")
Hillary, already 72½ years old, doesn’t check the ‘Young’ box. Otherwise I’d agree — Yes, she’d be a great choice. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482/182 "2020-04-30T12:46:17Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Hillary, already 72½ years old, doesn’t check the ‘Young’ box. Otherwise I’d agree — Yes, she’d be a great choice. Hillary would have been a great president, and not just in comparison to the idiot we ended up with. But putting her in the VP slot just reboots the 30+ years of hate leveled at her. Just no way it is a good idea. But bringing it up does serve to distract the idiots on the right, so it is possibly a good thing to discuss. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2020, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482/183 "2020-04-30T13:18:29Z")
I figured it was a lock Biden would have a black woman help him pick his VP and he did that. Lisa Blunt Rochester. [Biden campaign announces vice presidential selection committee | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/30/politics/biden-vice-president-selection-committee/) ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482/184 "2020-04-30T13:44:44Z")
I’m still hoping for either Whitmer or Harris, myself. But I also don’t think a VP pick has a lot of impact on the outcome of the general election. I agree that experience should be the thing, here. More than policy or geography. Remember this: If Biden wins the election and falls over dead at 12:06pm on Jan 20, 2021 he will have accomplished the largest part of what we needed him to accomplish: he will have unseated a sitting and disastrous President who was systematically destroying our institutions and culture. After that, whatever else he accomplishes is a bonus. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482/185 "2020-04-30T13:46:25Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I’d be okay with Duckworth as VP. It’d be great to see her debating the Republicans on military issues. Not sure anyone would be better qualified to stump for the ticket! ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482/186 "2020-04-30T14:43:22Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Not sure anyone would be better qualified to stump for the ticket! Dinsdale, if that’s a joke it’s in very poor taste. No warning issued, but don’t be a jerk, dude. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482/187 "2020-04-30T17:05:38Z")
Susan Rice has been suggested recently. She’s young and has more foreign policy experience than any of the other contenders. But she’s never held elected office and she turned down an offer to replace Clinton as Secretary of State because the hearings would be all about Benghazi. Biden would be a idiot to allow that to overshadow his campaign. She’s in the same class as Clinton and Obama. He needs someone with no right-wing baggage. The VP must add and never subtract. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482/188 "2020-04-30T17:14:32Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Susan Rice has been suggested recently. She’s young and has more foreign policy experience than any of the other contenders. But she’s never held elected office and she turned down an offer to replace Clinton as Secretary of State because the hearings would be all about Benghazi. > > Biden would be a idiot to allow that to overshadow his campaign. She’s in the same class as Clinton and Obama. He needs someone with no right-wing baggage. The VP must add and never subtract. I think Susan Rice is brilliant. I wonder whether she’d seriously consider it. ---
**Author:** ![Lantern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lantern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482/189 "2020-04-30T17:32:56Z")
Susan Rice sounds excellent. Ready to step in as commander-in-chief and also someone that Biden would have seen a lot of during the Obama administration. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482/190 "2020-04-30T17:51:02Z")
Rice might prefer sec of state. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2020, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482/191 "2020-04-30T17:59:32Z")
Yeah, the only fundraising Susan Rice would inspire is of the right-wing variety. Biden needs someone who has at least a bit of online savvy and can excite fundraising. Yet another reason I think it’s going to be Warren, or possibly Abrams. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482/192 "2020-04-30T18:06:52Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > …putting [Hillary] in the VP slot just reboots the 30+ years of hate leveled at her. Just no way it is a good idea… Agreed. Good Lord, enough of the Clintons already. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482/193 "2020-04-30T18:32:54Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Agreed. Good Lord, enough of the Clintons already. She could come back for State, she was good there. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482/194 "2020-04-30T19:00:00Z")
Can someone explain why Biden would choose Chris “waitress sandwich” Dodd as part of his vice-presidential selection committee ? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482/195 "2020-04-30T19:25:26Z")
> [@Xema](#): > > Can someone explain why Biden would choose Chris “waitress sandwich” Dodd as part of his vice-presidential selection committee ? Well, if you read his bio, it should be clear: > **[Chris Dodd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Dodd)** > > Christopher John Dodd (born May 27, 1944) is an American lobbyist, lawyer, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1981 to 2011. Dodd is the longest-serving senator in Connecticut's history. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1981. > Dodd is a Connecticut native and a graduate of Georgetown Preparatory School in Bethesda, Maryland, and Providence College. His father, Thomas J. Dodd, was also a United States Sen... \*Christopher John Dodd (born May 27, 1944) is an American lobbyist, lawyer, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States Senator from Connecticut from 1981 to 2011. Dodd is a Connecticut native and a graduate of Georgetown Preparatory School in Bethesda, Maryland, and Providence College. His father, Thomas J. Dodd, was also a United States Senator from 1959 to 1971. Chris Dodd served in the Peace Corps for two years prior to entering the University of Louisville School of Law, and during law school concurrently served in the United States Army Reserve. Dodd returned to Connecticut, winning election in 1974 to the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut’s 2nd congressional district and was reelected in 1976 and 1978. He was elected United States Senator in the elections of 1980, and is the longest-serving senator in Connecticut’s history. Dodd served as general chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1995 to 1997. He served as Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee until his retirement from politics.[1] In 2006, Dodd decided to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, but eventually withdrew after running behind several other competitors.\* ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482/196 "2020-04-30T19:35:58Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > She could come back for State, she was good there. She should just retire. There is no shortage of capable people. She has too much imagined baggage. I like her. I voted for her and sent her money. Fair not not (I vote not) she hurts the Democrats every time her name is mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482/197 "2020-04-30T20:22:45Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > … if you read his bio, it should be clear I’d think he could find a number of well-qualified candidates without a conspicuous instance of sexual harassment in their records. Why - especially in current circumstances - would he want to be dealing with that? ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482/198 "2020-04-30T21:19:29Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Susan Rice has been suggested recently. She’s young and has more foreign policy experience than any of the other contenders. But she’s never held elected office and she turned down an offer to replace Clinton as Secretary of State because the hearings would be all about Benghazi. > > Biden would be a idiot to allow that to overshadow his campaign. She’s in the same class as Clinton and Obama. He needs someone with no right-wing baggage. The VP must add and never subtract. If the American people fall for the Benghazi trap the country deserves four more years of Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482/199 "2020-04-30T21:23:20Z")
> [@Boycott](#): > > If the American people fall for the Benghazi trap the country deserves four more years of Trump. This line of reasoning makes no sense to me. The “Benghazi trap” is a known quantity of negative, destructive baggage. It’s not about what anyone “deserves.” If there’s a fucking bear trap right in front of you with big signs marked “BEAR TRAP”, and you step into the bear trap and die…you’re dead. That’s all there is to it. The “you” here is the Democratic Party. It would be squarely on THEM for fucking up in this situation, not the “American people.” ---
**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:** [April 30, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482/200 "2020-04-30T21:37:14Z")
> [@Win\_Place\_Show](#): > > What are the chances that Biden is considering Hillary as his running mate? Sounds crazy but before you say 0%, was there 0% chance when Trump came down the escalator, that he’d be preparing for his inauguration 18 months later? > > Just indulge me for a moment by forgetting that the 2016 Election happened. Let’s assume Trump defeated… hell, Cory Booker. > > Wouldn’t Hillary be at the top of everyone’s short list in this thread? Ahead of Klobuchar / Whitmer / Harris / Warren? She fits the “woman” bill, and she’s got a hell of a resume. Yes maybe she’s considered “not young”, I’ll grant you that one. > > Ok {snaps fingers} back to the real world of today. Yes, she lost 2016. But she did win the popular vote, and I can’t imagine anyone who voted for her in 2016 would turn and vote AGAINST a Biden / Clinton ticket. In fact, if you’re like me, you might be even MORE motivated to vote for Biden in 2020 if she were on the ticket (sort of a “pull for the underdog” redemption story). > > I think she’s done a pretty good job of staying “under wraps” for four years and hasn’t done anything to tarnish her reputation. Sure, if you hated her then, you probably still do. But otherwise if there were a “Hillary Clinton approval rating” it can’t be lower now than four years ago, right? > > That being said, would she still be considered too “toxic” even today? Would this just be too much red meat for the Dems to serve up to the shitheads on Fox? Would she even accept the nod if asked? > > And finally if Biden wins, would there still be a place for her in the administration anywhere? Or in your opinion has she already hung up her hat and ridden off into the sunset? > [@septimus](#): > > Hillary, already 72½ years old, doesn’t check the ‘Young’ box. Otherwise I’d agree — Yes, she’d be a great choice. > [@Folacin](#): > > Hillary would have been a great president, and not just in comparison to the idiot we ended up with. > > But putting her in the VP slot just reboots the 30+ years of hate leveled at her. Just no way it is a good idea. > > But bringing it up does serve to distract the idiots on the right, so it is possibly a good thing to discuss. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO Hillary didn’t lose just because people disliked her personally. She lost because she represented to many people an “establishment” that had failed them. Biden represents the same establishment, so he’s already handicapped by that. He needs a fresh, younger face to counter that perception. Hillary on the ticket would guarantee four more years of Trump. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidens-running-mate-prediction-thread/849482.md?page=11)