The debate over Joe Biden’s running mate pick is full of half-truths and misleading arguments. Analysis, via FiveThirtyEight:
! Bottoms and Demings have not been major figures in national politics until recently, so many Democrats, Black and non-Black, likely have no idea who they are!
What’s really going on here: Progressives want Warren because she has a more liberal record than any of the other potential vice presidential candidates being considered. What if the people who want a Black woman on the ticket as a show of appreciation for Black women just said that and left the predictions about Black turnout out of it? What if the centrists just said they don’t want Warren because she is too liberal? What if liberals just said they want Warren because sheHere’s why: The Democratic Party struggled to resolve major divides about policy and identity during the 2020 primary. Those divides still exist.
I’m referring in this section largely to people who were calling for Biden to pick a Black woman as his running mate even before the killing of George Floyd and the resulting protests.,” or the extent to which an official acts for a voting group’s best interests (so a Black woman vice president could advocate for the policy preferences of Black women within the White House, depending on the role she had.
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