Former 2020 candidates Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) have endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden in the Democratic presidential primary.
Iām happy to have Booker and Harris on board. I could have seen myself voting for either if the universe had shaken out a little bit differently. Itās clearly a big enough tent to let some bygones be bygones.
As an aside, do you think it really frosts Liebermanās chops that #joementum, a thing that he attempted to invent about himself, is now actually real and is carrying a different Joe to the biglyiest, yuuugest of all nominations? I hope it does. Piss off, Lieberman.
Because Lieberman is such and avid and adept user of social media? 
Democrats, You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Chains:
Unite.
Biden needs to maintain forward momentum and build party excitement should he win the nom. Once his delegate lead is out of Sandersā reach itās incumbent he decide on a running mate. That person has to hit the campaign trial and lock in and energize whatever voting block they theoretically help pull in. So, whoās it going to be? What group does he target? Women? Minorities? Both? Kamala Harris or Stacey Abrams? Is their any scenario his running mate can be a white man? Any at all?
The NYT announced that both will appear with him in Detroit today.
Iāve said it before and Iāll say it again, Iāve got twenty bucks on Klobuchar. Hugely popular in the upper Midwest, never wandered onto the dubiously-popular M4A gangplank, much younger but entirely able to step in on day one if necessary, would be replaced by a Democratic governor.
Better not be a white man.
Today already feels a lot like last Monday did.
Spoken like a true Communist.
Klobuchar and Harris share one knock, and that is the allegation their past life as prosecutors saw them gung-ho on the ālaw and orderā mania that swept the country years ago. Anecdotes about their determined efforts to lock people away for years and years for crimes that didnāt merit such sentencing abound. Both have detractors and commentators questioning whether minority communities may harbor antipathy for what they did.
Biden to Klob:
āYour Middle Name is FL/WI/MI/OH/NC/PA/IN. You never think of anything else but getting EVERY LAST POSSIBLE DEMOCRATIC VOTE OUT OF THOSE STATES. Do what you have to do to Get It Done.ā
Fair questions. Iām a white guy and Iām not going to try to step into shoes of minority communities that have been dogged by systemic unfairness for longer than thereās been a United States of America.
Growing up in what was West Germany, I was surrounded by France (Commies) and the Danes (Co-op tractors and such).
Every time Dems get back the White House they have to clean up Republican messes.
ā Robert Reich (@RBReich) March 9, 2020
Next January, the mess could be huge -- a botched response to a pandemic, an economy in free-fall, a government nearly destroyed by cronyism and corruption, int'l institutions in disarray.
I think Stacey Abrams should get a very thorough look. Who in the hell wouldnāt kill for this CV?:
In 1995 Abrams earned a Bachelor of Arts in interdisciplinary studies (political science, economics and sociology) from Spelman College, magna cum laude .[1] While in college she worked in the youth services department in the office of Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson.[7] She later interned at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.[7] As a freshman in 1992, Abrams took part in a protest on the steps of the Georgia Capitol, in which she joined in burning the state flag. At the time Georgiaās state flag incorporated the Confederate battle flag, which had been added to the state flag in 1956 as an anti-civil rights movement action. It was designed by Southern Democrat John Sammons Bell, a World War II veteran and attorney who was an outspoken supporter of segregation.[8][9]
As a Harry S. Truman Scholar, Abrams studied public policy at the University of Texas at Austinās LBJ School of Public Affairs, where she earned a Master of Public Affairs degree in 1998. In 1999 she earned a J.D. degree from Yale Law School.[1]
Could she be replace with Al Franken? Then the seat would be safe and it would piss off all the right people.
Less āto own the Xā politics in this country, please.
Me, for one. Never held statewide or federal office? Come back later. (same for Pete)
So, Democrats shouldnāt be willing to give a Yale JD and public policy grad a shot at VP, yet Republicans can give a sociopath whose father paid or his degree the grand prize. She may have very well won the GA Governorship if her opponent hadnāt been the Secretary of State calling balls and strikes in the very same goddamned election he was her opponent.
Nah, I think your disqualifying criteria are lame, to be blunt.
Harris would be replaced by a Democratic governor, too. And Abrams doesnāt have a seat to replace.
I am not saying he wonāt consider Klobuchar, but given how African Americans have pretty much given him the nomination, I would be seriously surprised if he doesnāt repay that gift by picking an AA running mate.
āHugely popular in the upper Midwestā is a dubious claim IMO, too. She came in a rather distant 5th in Iowa. Nor does she offer much help in some important down ballot Senate racesā¦SC, NC and GA in particular.