{"id":41711,"date":"2020-03-16T02:54:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T02:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41711"},"modified":"2020-03-16T02:54:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T02:54:36","slug":"men-need-not-apply-for-bidens-vp-slot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41711","title":{"rendered":"Men need not apply for Biden’s VP slot?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Joseph R. Biden Jr. made some serious news Sunday night.<\/p>\n

He did so with a clear, concise and deftly inserted pledge: He said he would name a woman to run with him if he wins the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.<\/p>\n

There. It’s done. The former vice president effectively eliminated by roughly half the number of candidates he might consider running with him.<\/p>\n

That doesn’t mean he’s got a short list. Oh, no! It means only that he has made what sounded to me like an ironclad pledge to select a woman as his running mate. He also seemed to suggest that a woman who debated him on the 2020 primary stage would have an advantage in the selection process.<\/p>\n

Whoa! Not so fast, Mr. Vice President.<\/p>\n

The nation is chock full of women who could serve today<\/em> as president. They are governors, former governors, former senators, former House members, in addition to current officeholders. The field is full. I do not want him to limit his choices, even though he’s done so with the remarkable pledge he made on that debate stage with Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n

So \u2026 Joe Biden has just made a big splash.<\/p>\n

Wow!<\/p>\n\n

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Joseph R. Biden Jr. made some serious news Sunday night. He did so with a clear, concise and deftly inserted pledge: He said he would name a woman to run with him if he wins the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. There. It’s done. The former vice president effectively eliminated by roughly half the number of … Continue reading Men need not apply for Biden’s VP slot?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7225,5544,2505],"class_list":["post-41711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2020-election","tag-democratic-debate","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41712,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41711\/revisions\/41712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}