• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Also, one of the critical qualities people seek for a VP is that they’re boring.

    You dont pick a vp that’s popular- they might get more popular than you- and you don’t pick a vo that’s “controversial”

    One might risk more, if the person is from a battleground state and is popular,

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      5 months ago

      Biden gave her basically all meh jobs as VP too. Might have been on purpose. Give her something to do without setting her up to primary him.

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        5 months ago

        she wasn’t popular enough to primary him. there was some issues, IIRC, with her history as a prosecutor (of the “tough on crime” sort.) She’s certainly more qualified that Trump, or anyone trump would pick as a VP at this point; but I don’t think she’d win her own election… even if Biden had worked to set her up to replace him.