Dem VP choice

Do you believe the VP will have to step in to serve out the term of either Biden or Bernie?

  • Biden - Yes - he won't last the 4 years and will have to step down due to health reasons due to the

    Votes: 6 26.1%

  • Biden - No

    Votes: 7 30.4%

  • Bernie - Yes - he won't last 4 years and will have to step down due to health reasons due to the str

    Votes: 3 13.0%

  • Bernie - NO

    Votes: 3 13.0%

  • Biden will win a 2nd term and will have to step down due to health

    Votes: 2 8.7%

  • Bernie will win a 2nd term and will have to step down due to health

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 2 8.7%
  • Total voters
    23
Danny Bateman said:
I truly believe Sanders would be a hard sell in FL. His comments about Castro will be used in the worst faith by the GOP but it will be enough to repel the significant Cuban population there. I know others feel FL might flip due to felons recently receiving the right to vote there but IMO that's going to make it very hard for Bernie to be competitive there. He should probably just focus on the Rust Belt. Biden on the other hand could put FL in play and thus she probably is a better fit for him than Bernie.

I think she'd be a really bad choice but I could see Bernie picking Gabbard.
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Come on...Castro has done some really good things!

Like...keeping them stuck in the 1950's

LumberJackSker said:
So many of them talk s#!t about bernie being to extreme I'm not sure who he would pick if he won the nomination. 
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Is Castro still alive?

 
Danny Bateman said:
I truly believe Sanders would be a hard sell in FL. His comments about Castro will be used in the worst faith by the GOP but it will be enough to repel the significant Cuban population there. I know others feel FL might flip due to felons recently receiving the right to vote there but IMO that's going to make it very hard for Bernie to be competitive there. He should probably just focus on the Rust Belt. Biden on the other hand could put FL in play and thus she probably is a better fit for him than Bernie.

I think she'd be a really bad choice but I could see Bernie picking Gabbard.
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I don't think any of the Dem candidates are going to beat Trump in Florida, so I'm not sure it matters.

 
sho said:
I voted other.  I say Val Demings would be the best choice for VP, regardless of who is on top of the ticket.  She balances both.   She's strong in criminal justice, her strategies helped lower crime rates while she was Chief of Police in Orlando.   History of social work before law enforcement.   From Florida, which IMO, helps Florida become a blue state.   She was one of impeachment managers, and I feel did really well there.   And it doesn't hurt that she's a minority female.   There's already a lot of chirping that it's two white old men to vote for, this will help battle that.    And I do believe that she (or whomever the VP is) will eventually end up President.  I think with both Bernie and Joe, there is already enough hints of questionable health that 4 years of high stress will not do them well.
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Good stuff, I just came in here to see if there was any talk about Demings.

2016 Presidential:

  • 49.02% Trump
  • 47.82% Clinton

2018 Gubernatorial: 

  • 49.6% DeSantis
  • 49.2% Gillum



If Florida flips, that's probably the WH.

 
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donald trump.  he has done more to destroy the republican party than any democrat has ever done....he deserves the reward.    

 
For what it is worth, yahoo has a way of saying a lot without saying anything.   

Val Demings, Stacey Abrams, and in particular  Kamala Harris seem to be the leading Biden options. 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/heres-joe-biden-bernie-sanders-233324627.html

"It's got to be somebody that the Democratic Party can see its future in," he said.

Russell pointed to Florida Rep. Val Demings, a former Orlando police chief who endorsed Biden on Thursday, as a strong candidate for the former vice president. Another Democratic strategist said either Demings or New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham would make good running mates for Biden. And Axios reported last year that Biden was considering former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams as his pick. 

A Democratic operative working to elect Biden predicted the candidate would choose Sen. Kamala Harris of California, who dropped out of the 2020 race in December, as his running mate. Harris, a former prosecutor and attorney general of her home state, ran on a more progressive platform than Biden but shied away from some of the progressive left's boldest proposals. Harris is considering endorsing Biden, according to The New York Times. 

"I'd be surprised if it wasn't Kamala Harris," he told Insider. "I actually think [she] is pretty pragmatic. I think Kamala Harris is closer to Joe Biden's form of politics than she ever was to the stuff she was trying to do on the campaign."

Though Harris was critical of Biden's record on race during the primary, the former vice president praised her when she dropped out of the race. 

"Sen. Harris has the capacity to be anything she wants to be," Biden said in December. "I talked to her yesterday. She's solid. She can be the president one day herself. She can be the vice president. She can go on to be a Supreme Court justice."

The operative said Sanders may have a harder time finding a running mate who will have broad appeal and be willing to be branded a democratic socialist. Some have suggested former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner, a national cochair of Sanders' campaign, or Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, a progressive with a strong track record of wins in a swing state. 

"He doesn't want to seem as if he's selling out his people. There is an appearance piece of this, so it's gotta be someone who's going to pass the smell test with his supporters," he said. 

Basil Smikle, the former executive director of the New York State Democratic Party, largely agreed. 

"For Biden, I imagine black voters who were critical to his resurgence will be looking for an African American running mate," Smikle told Insider. "For Sanders, I think someone that fits his policy profile but may assuage concerns among 'establishment' Dems is possible, though few may fit the model."

But the two Democratic frontrunners find their strongest support in very different segments of the Democratic electorate. While Sanders has a significant lead over Biden among young voters and Latino voters, the former vice president is much more popular than his competitor among older and suburban voters. 
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I really don't want it to be Harris.   Her and Biden takes the Dem party the opposite direction I would like them to go.

 
Redux said:
Dear Joe Biden,

Pick Tulsi, you'll get my vote
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A young(ish) California woman of color, former prosecutor and current Senator who got a lot of air time during the campaign...

It just might work.

 
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