Posted on 05/27/2020 7:13:26 PM PDT by chief lee runamok
Joe Biden said that he expects to announce his vice presidential pick around Aug. 1.
The information on the expected running mate announcement timeline came during a virtual fundraiser on Wednesday featuring former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, with around 200 donors, according to a pool report.
That means the Democratic vice presidential presumptive nominee will be known a few weeks before the Democratic National Convention, scheduled for Aug. 17 to 20 in Milwaukee, but may largely take place via virtual speeches due to the coronavirus pandemic. Biden said earlier on Wednesday that he could see the convention taking place over two days with 5,000 people.
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and former vice president has pledged to pick a woman to be his running mate and said that the selection committee process is in its beginning stages.
“We're in the process of deciding the basic cut about whether or not they really want it. Are they comfortable? They've asked a lot of questions," Biden said.
He has previously said that more than a dozen women are being considered for the job. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Florida Rep. Val Demings, and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar are among the women who have been asked to start the vetting process.
"I want to make sure that wherever I speak to, whoever I have, has some qualities that I don't possess, as well as is willing to, in fact, tell me the truth, but also do it in a way that is between the two of us between her and me so that they can, in fact, be completely candid with me because I want to have people around me that have strengths and capacities I don't,” Biden said.
In addition to aligning with his policy priorities, Biden has said that he is looking for a running mate who is able to assume the presidency on day one because "I'm an old guy."
You heard it here first ..... OPRAH!
A vagina, any vagina.
Doesn’t he have to be, you know, nominated first?
so start of August is when Biden drops out.
“Doesn’t he have to be, you know, nominated first?”
No.
Klobuchar is the best of that bunch, but to use The Groper’s words, she “ain’t black.”
Whomever is chosen us going to be the real President, if elected.
August!?
LOL!
Joe’s got quite the fire under him.
/s
“...has some qualities that I don’t possess...”
Well, that narrows it down not at all.
Bentsen,, Kaine, ...next
Expect around the beginning of August?
That will probably translate into the first Friday AFTER Labor Day, which will be September 7th.
It’s almost painful to watch.
“I want to make sure that wherever I speak to, whoever I have, has some qualities that I don’t possess”
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Piece o’ Cake, Joe.
All this news about a whole bunch of nothing that won’t even fall until August but no curiosity about Ukraine blackmail.
He will choose a Black woman.
It might be Stacy Abrams.
It might be Kamala Harris.
Sounds like he has binders full of women.
Take your time
Oh, for God’s sake, just pick a target already. Anybody who wants to be president should be vetting potential running mates five minutes before they throw their own hat in the ring. Waiting until 90 days before the election is just a dodge to avoid scrutiny.
pre or post?
Doesn’t matterm Sloe Joe!
Doesn’t matter!
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