Some potential running mates have seen their fortunes appear to rise or fall in the midst of the protests over police treatment of African Americans.
Asked if the events of the past week could complicate Biden’s choice, a former Obama administration official who has been in contact with his team said that “there was already pressure” on them, and insisted Biden does not need to have a diverse ticket, if he makes the right choice.
"I also already said there are women of color under consideration. That is not the only criteria to determine who will be the vice president of the United States of America, that I'll choose as a running mate. It is just beginning the process. I guarantee you, there are more — there's more than one African-American woman being considered for vice president. I promise you that."
“It could let Biden off the hook of really developing a substantive agenda talking about what the black community really needs at this moment,” said Jones, who has also analyzed the relative lack of diversity on Biden’s own campaign staff, relative to the importance of the black vote to Democrats. “When I was county attorney, African-American incarceration rate went down 12 percent. I was heralded by The Innocence Project for the work I did in making sure that we had a DNA review of all of our cases, in working to have a new form of witness ID that I implemented to reduce racist misidentifications, to make sure we videotaped interrogations and that would happen nationally,” she said in an interview on MSNBC.“There is institutional racism," she continued.
Other leading VP contenders have been outspoken on the Floyd case. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., called it a “public execution.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaking with Robinson this week, touted her criminal justice reform proposals. “Building trust and fostering relationships with the community is critical to the police being able to do their job and the public being able to respect and trust them. But you cannot wait until you’re in the middle of a crisis to build relationships and trust,” Demings said.
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