Biden VP Running Mate: Warren Tops In Negative Rating, 19% Say She’s ‘Not Acceptable’ – By Arthur Villasanta (IB Times) / July 3 2020
- A new USA Today/Suffolk poll confirms voters want Biden to pick a woman of color as his running mate
- It shows Sen. Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams and Susan Rice in the lead
- Among the top five is Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is white
The smart money’s now on Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., as Joe Biden’s vice-presidential pick. She is one of the six women — five of them women of color — said to be on Biden’s list. Biden has said he’ll announce his decision around Aug. 1.
The only white woman on this list is the feisty and smart Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who was unforgettable in the primaries for shredding former New York City mayor and billionaire Mike Bloomberg.
Warren repeating her heroics as Biden’s running mate seems a long shot given the pressure Biden faces to anoint a woman of color as his pick. A new poll of Democrats also confirms the widespread perception the party does want a woman of color, specifically a Black American, as Biden’s veep.
This leaves the field to African-Americans Susan Rice, former national security adviser under President Barack Obama; Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta; and Stacey Abrams, who ran as governor of Georgia in the 2018 midterms. And Harris, who is of Indian-Jamaican descent.
A new USA Today/Suffolk poll shows 72% of respondents saying it’s important to them that Biden picks a woman of color as his running mate. A third of Democrats, among both Black and white Americans, say this is “very important.”
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