How Joe Biden, a former vice president, is approaching his search for a vice presidential running mate.
Some speculate that the twin health and economic crises could bolster the case for candidates on his short list like Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, or to a lesser extent Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who have Washington experience and demonstrated in the course of the Democratic primaries a fluency in the kinds of issues Biden would confront.
Another potential finalist, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, whom Biden interviewed for his new audio series, “Here’s the Deal,” is gaining notice as well. “Governor, I've paid close attention to your leadership in Michigan from the time you got elected,” Biden noted in the interview. By month’s end, Biden will formally announce the team to oversee that process, expected to include his campaign's top lawyers, general counsel Dana Remus and Bob Bauer; national campaign co-chairman Cedric Richmond; and either formally or informally a number of longtime advisers, including Ron Klain, his first chief of staff as vice president.
And now, with active campaigning on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, Biden has been sounding out a larger universe of Democrats to gauge their reactions to some possibilities. When Biden has discussed what he’s looking for in a running mate, it’s almost exclusively been through the prism of what kind of partner that person would be in the White House — an important signal that short-term political considerations are secondary to governing ones.
While Obama had to conduct in-person interviews with potential candidates in the heat of a campaign, Biden appears to have weeks ahead of him where he could have intimate conversations, either in person or through videoconferencing, without the same need for obsessive secrecy.
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