{"id":42302,"date":"2020-04-18T01:56:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T01:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42302"},"modified":"2020-04-18T01:56:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T01:56:51","slug":"biden-has-locked-himself-in-on-a-vp-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42302","title":{"rendered":"Biden has locked himself in on a VP pick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have to admit that Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s commitment to selecting a woman as his running mate — presuming his nomination as the Democratic Party’s candidate for president — was a gutsy call.<\/p>\n

He has effectively locked himself in. He must<\/em> select a woman. To do otherwise, in my view, would doom<\/em> Biden’s campaign against Donald John Trump.<\/p>\n

Yet we hear the occasional chatter out there that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose daily coronavirus pandemic briefings have produced a sort of cult following of their own must be considered a potential VP selection for Biden.<\/p>\n

Hold on! The only way Biden is going to select Andrew Cuomo is if the governor undergoes a sex-change operation \u2026 as in right now!<\/em> It ain’t gonna happen. Therefore, Joe Biden is not going to consider Andrew Cuomo for a vice-presidential slot on the 2020 Democratic ticket.<\/p>\n

I’ll certainly concede that Cuomo well could find himself serving in some high-level capacity in a Biden administration. I can think of two tailor-made Cabinet posts that would work well for the country: attorney general and homeland security secretary come immediately to mind.<\/p>\n

However, Joe Biden clearly is dialing in on a potential VP running mate. Whoever she is must rise to the one level of consideration that stands over all the rest: Is she equipped and qualified to step into the presidency?<\/p>\n

This process will be exciting to watch unfold.<\/p>\n\n

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I have to admit that Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s commitment to selecting a woman as his running mate — presuming his nomination as the Democratic Party’s candidate for president — was a gutsy call. He has effectively locked himself in. He must select a woman. To do otherwise, in my view, would doom Biden’s campaign … Continue reading Biden has locked himself in on a VP pick<\/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":[7225,377,2505],"class_list":["post-42302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2020-election","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42302","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=42302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42303,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42302\/revisions\/42303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}