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Karen Bass Would Be Biden’s Best Choice for VP
I’ve long believed that Biden will pick Kamala Harris as his VP nominee. I’m not a fan of hers, but there aren’t many good options. Still, there is one.
Karen Bass is someone centrists would have a tough time objecting to but would help sway progressives to get out the vote.
In terms of a progressive option, I don’t believe Elizabeth Warren is seriously being considered, both because too many centrists hate her and because the Democrats don’t want an all-white ticket. The latter is a good reason, the former is certainly not one I care about. Whether your views align more with centrist Democrats or progressives, it’s pretty hard to make a case that centrists have led or governed well unless the bar set is that they are “better than Trump.” I certainly hope we can agree that we want to aim higher than that.
Susan Rice’s hawkish record speaks for itself and should be a major cause for concern for anyone. She is very much in the “liberal hawk” mold, and that has served the world and the country quite poorly. While some talk about her lack of support for the Iraq War, what she actually expressed was skepticism and she neither supported nor opposed it, but she did consider Saddam Hussein a global threat which, after the first Gulf War and a decade-plus of sanctions, was simply false. Her colleagues have stated that she…
