> Biden picking Harris to win the black vote is a political stunt and cheapens the role tremendously. Picking a VP only to win votes implies that the role isn't actually important and that anyone winning votes could do the job.
This is literally every election. Every single one. It's literally all any speculation about VP picks is about. Seriously, pick an election year in the last century and I bet we could dig up articles about what voting bloc the VP is expected to bring in.
What's more is that it's largely independent of the competency of the VP picks, who are sometimes quite accomplished and capable.
And of course, it's always been assumed it will be "white" and "male" for almost the entire history of this country.
And yet for this one you trot out "DEI" and all that you're trying to imply with it. I wonder why.
> This is literally every election. Every single one. It's literally all any speculation about VP picks is about
Until the 12th amendment was passed the VP was whoever got second place in the election.
In more modern history, it's commonplace for VP candidates to be picked because they fill in a gap in experience for the presidential candidate. Bush and Cheney is a good example, as is Obama and Biden. Sure you could make it political and say they were shoring up one group of voters, but the VP pick filled in a gap of experience and skills that was missing. Harris filled in a diversity gap, I'm not aware of anything else she brought to the table that Biden was missing.
This is literally every election. Every single one. It's literally all any speculation about VP picks is about. Seriously, pick an election year in the last century and I bet we could dig up articles about what voting bloc the VP is expected to bring in.
What's more is that it's largely independent of the competency of the VP picks, who are sometimes quite accomplished and capable.
And of course, it's always been assumed it will be "white" and "male" for almost the entire history of this country.
And yet for this one you trot out "DEI" and all that you're trying to imply with it. I wonder why.