The fact that the Biden campaign was in serious conversations with Gretchen Whitmer last week shows just how concerned someone is with Harris, but you definitely can’t pick a white woman.

And on top of that, if there was any chance Trump was going to dump Pence for someone else....this makes it abundantly clear that doing so is in direct response to his fear of the Dem ticket.

He didn’t wait any longer than past nominees. And in the course of waiting, look at all of the women who were elevated in the conversation: Bass, Whitmer, Abrams, Bottoms, Demings, Duckworth...

The next Republican presidential field is gonna be a real doozy - Tom Cotton, Trump Junior, Ted Cruz (you know his ass won’t step aside), and lord knows what else is gonna slither out of that fetid morass.

MA Senate seat. It was never gonna be Warren.

One of the things that Harris brings to the table is her experience in the legal field.  That’s going to be needed over the next 4 years.  The Republicans may be partially revolting against Trump, ala TheLincolnProject, but they’re still the group that happily gerrymandered and voter suppressed all they could with or…

Me too. And now even more excited that he chose someone who will probably thrash Pence’s ass on stage

I agree with you about letting Trump beat himself.

He announced shortly before the convention, as is traditional for both parties.

It’s idiotic. Warren was my choice in primary, but once Biden became presumptive nominee, I never thought she’d be the right choice as his VP for soooo many reasons. People need to grow the fuck up. Joe could’ve chosen a bag of rocks, Noam Chomsky, or fucking Mitt Romney & Id still be voting for him in November. But…

As a center-leftie who despises Trump, Biden has exactly what he needs: a street-smart intelligent badass who can pick up the reigns in 2024. I cannot WAIT to see the veep debate; Pence will need a goddamned defibrillator.

Shrugs. He created the children of bitterness. Whipped them up by convincing them something was stolen from them and the party owes them. Well here we are. His own rhetoric is being weaponized against him. 

on one hand, i dont disagree, on the other he has done better when he has let trump beat himself up, Harris is pretty hard to land any solid blows on, but now the fox news crowd has to formulate an attack plan in 3 months. Best i have seen is some super scummy attack about her dating a guy who got her in power, which…

I am ready to vote today, forget this “Election day is Oct. 20th” nonsense for mail in ballots.  Election day is the day after I get my ballot.  Can’t come soon enough.

i love warren, she gets picked, the republcian governer gets to give us 54 republicans in the senate. plus, it really was important for him to have a black running mate. I hope to see her voice amplified in this administration, but the board was not favorable for her to be put into play.

Or perhaps: they wanted to give as small a window of opportunity for Faux News/Trump/the GOP and their base to take swings at Harris?  Maybe, maybe not.  

This. I would say that someone should draw a Venn diagram of “Bernie Bros” and “People that keep saying that KH is a cop,” but I’m 99% sure it would just be a single circle.

They’ll be here soon enough. It’s going to be a contest between “Kamala is a cop” and “it should’ve been Warren.”

I think they were trying to give Fixed News and the rest of the Republican Donor Network mouthpieces less time to roll with continuous attacks on Harris.

But now Biden has named his vice presidential pick and it is who we all thought it should be: California Sen. Kamala Harris.