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This column by David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s chief strategist in 2008 and 2012, suggests that Joe Biden didn’t really want Kamala Harris to be his running mate. Axelrod doesn’t quite put it this way, but he does say that “others Biden considered may have fit more comfortably into partnership with him.” This is similar to my take last week. I agreed that Harris was probably the frontrunner for the nomination, but added that if Biden made his decision based on his true preference, he would probably select someone else — perhaps Susan Rice. Axelrod believes that Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan’s governor,...

WILMINGTON, Del. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. has selected his running mate and has informed top advisers about the choice, according to a person familiar with the campaign’s discussions. In recent days he had also begun to tell close allies that he had reached a decision, according to people with knowledge of those conversations. There will be no in-person announcement event on Tuesday, a Biden campaign official told The Times.