Democrats are facing two crucial questions: (1) Keep Joe or dump Joe; and (2) in the event of the latter, do you bump to the top of the ticket or hold an open convention? Most conversations between Democrats never get past these two questions. Instead, they dissolve into shouts of “You don’t know!” “Well, you don’t know either!” But if two Democrats somehow agree that Harris should lead the ticket, the obvious follow-up question is: Who would be the best choice for vice president? The media has started to throw out candidates for this scenario and they’re mainly the same ones bandied about for an open convention: Governors Andy Beshear, Josh Shapiro, , and J.B.
Pritzker. But most governors relish their jobs as CEOs of their states. When secured the nomination in 2020, he invited Michigan Gov.
Whitmer to meet him in Delaware for vetting. According to Whitmer, Biden asked her, “Why do you want to be vice president?” She told that was, “Joe, I’m here because you asked me to be here. I love my job.
I love being in Michigan. There’s nowhere else I want to go..
.” Instead of combing over the same names, it made sense to try some reverse engineering and lay out the credentials that would complement Harris while adding general appeal and electability. Those qualities include: Someone from a swing state Gender, race and compelling origin story Military experience/patriotism Devoted to their family Foreign policy experience Someone who’d want the job and gets.
