Opinion: This may be the first time anyone considered naming a running mate before even entering the race
Stacey Abrams delivers the Democratic Party's response to President Trump's State of the Union address on Feb. 5 from Atlanta. By Paul Waldman Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 21 at 12:55 PM When you’re running in a presidential primary against 75 other candidates, you have to do something to stand out. So likely presidential candidate Joe Biden, or at least his aides, have an idea.
Nevertheless, this may be the first time that anyone has considered naming a running mate before even entering the race. In addition to just doing something attention-grabbing, the easy way to look at the idea of Biden joining up with Abrams is that she’s a contrast to him in many of the ways that make him vulnerable to criticism in the Democratic Party.
Biden plainly thinks that persuasion is the route to victory. Indeed, that’s one of the primary rationales for his candidacy, that this son of Scranton who calls himself “Middle-Class Joe” can connect with the regular folks who helped Donald Trump get elected in 2016. Everything that cuts against a Biden candidacy is, some think, outweighed by his potential for winning over Trump voters.
And even though she fell short, she mounted an extraordinary campaign that created huge turnout and came far closer to winning than recent Democrats had following the theory that they had to be centrists in order to compete. Now she has created an organization to focus on guaranteeing voting rights and counter Republican voter suppression.
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