*In an interview on ABC’s “The View,” Stacey Abrams said Wednesday that if former Vice President Joe Biden does not pick a woman of color as his running mate in November, it would be a “a slap in the face” to Black voters.
“I think Vice President Biden is going to make a smart choice, and I appreciate the fact that he has lifted up women as being a necessary partner in this,” she said.
Adding, “I would share your concern about not picking a woman of color because women of color — particularly black women — are the strongest part of the Democratic Party, the most loyal, but that loyalty isn’t simply how we vote. It’s how we work, and if we want to signal that that work will continue, that we’re going to reach not just to certain segments of our community, but to the entire country, then we need a ticket that reflects the diversity of America.”
Abrams told Elle she’d be “an excellent running mate,” and also promoted herself during a recent interview with CBS This Morning — check out the clip below.
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“I believe I have the capacity, the competence and skills and willingness to serve.” –@StaceyAbrams on why she’s qualified to be @JoeBiden’s Vice President. pic.twitter.com/HCbNFfQ7aO
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) April 21, 2020
During her chat with the women of “The View,” Abrams explained her self-promotion policy, “I try to be straight forward because while we hope the work speaks for itself, sometimes the work needs a hype man, and I learned early on that if I didn’t speak for myself, I couldn’t tell the story.”
Meanwhile, Former vice president Biden said he intends to name a panel of advisers by May 1 to help him select a running mate.
“The first, the most important quality is someone who — if I walked away immediately from the office for whatever reason — that they can be president,” Biden said Wednesday via an appearance on “The Late Late Show with James Corden.” He added that he wants the public to be able to see his pick as “capable of being president of the United States tomorrow.”
Last week, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris said they would accept the position if Biden asked them.
“It is very important that my administration look like the public, look like the nation,” Biden said in an interview with KDKA. “And there will be, committed that there will be a woman of color on the Supreme Court, that doesn’t mean there won’t be a vice president, as well.”
As noted by NewsOne, a recent poll found that Biden running with a Black candidate could boost his chances of winning the 2020 election.
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