ICHEOKU says former Vice President Joe Biden would fare much better running without a vice presidential candidate than run with any of the shortlisted six candidates because of their obvious shortcomings. In short, he is in a Catch-22 quandary and no matter who he selects, there will be a heavy price to pay because of who he did not select. There is a big fight to the finish between white women and black women over who, between them, should be Joe Biden's rightful vice presidential candidate. This is increasingly becoming non negotiable because of the high stakes involved. It is obvious that whoever Joe Biden chooses as his Vice President will end up becoming the president by reason of incapacity of her principal, President Joe Biden, assuming he pulls off such a near impossibility. Even if Joe Biden did not abdicate his office, such his Vice President will overall be very powerful as a heavily diminished Joe Biden will farm out most of his presidential duties to the Vice President.
So the struggle for a Vice Presidential candidate position has never been this high in the history of choosing such a candidate, resulting in the internecine war currently going on amongst Democratic Party women in their effort to clinch the position. This has forced Joe Biden into a real bind of a no choice, choosing; as the various competing forces will end up tearing his presidential bid apart. A boondoggle of some sort that who ever he selects, he will pay dearly for it. For instance, if Joe Biden selects a white woman, black people will protest the choice and will either walk away or have a diminished enthusiasm going into the November 3rd election. Conversely, if he selects a black woman, white women and some formerly leaning Joe Biden white men will revolt against him and join the rest of the majority white people who are voting to reelect President Donald John Trump for a second term. But choosing a Hispanic is not an option nor a Solomonic way of resolving the impasse.
Even the six already shortlisted women, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Keisha Lance Bottoms, Valdez Venita Demings, Susan Rice and Michelle Luja Grisham will all bring more problems to the ticket than they will solve. They all come with their baggage and none will bring anything to the ticket such as star power, fund raising and winning a swing State for the ticket. This begs the question, what does Joe Biden want to achieve with any of this women if they will not bring the traditional benefits normally associated with a vice presidential choice to the ticket. All of them poses potential problem for the ticket and should be rather avoided than embraced; only that there is nobody who will not spell the same disaster for an already disastrous campaign whose principal is barley holding on. Lets examine what these women mean to the ticket or rather will being to the ticket:-
If Joe Biden chooses Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and his supporters will not find it funny but very disrespectful. They will conclude that the promise to her by Joe Biden of a vice presidential slot was what made her to sell Bernie Sanders out during the Democratic Party's primaries. That because of the promise, she dumped their collective progressivism, betrayed the cause by not stepping aside before South Carolina primaries for Bernie Sanders, spoilt it for the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and finally refused to endorse a fellow progressive Bernie Sanders and endorsed Joe Biden. Also Elizabeth Warren belongs to the wild eyed white liberal feminists wing of the Democratic Party and other more conservative white women as well as black women will not accept her choice as Joe Biden's choice for vice presidential candidate. Otherwise, she is eminently well qualified and she is a great debater.
If on the other hand, Joe Biden selects Kamala Harris to be his vice presidential candidate that will be a great mistake as nobody, black or white, likes Kamala Harris. She is mean spirited and during her time as Attorney General of California there was a mass incarceration of people, some of them for offenses as petty as marijuana possession. Black Americans don't see her as really one of them because she is technically Jamaican and/or Indian at best. They will not readily accept another "foreign" black American as their representative in the power struggle after Barack Obama, who many still see as not being black American enough. Kamala Harris is also not fully down with the struggle, not being a descendant of slaves and embracing her will be difficult. She cannot raise funds and she has no star power to bring in the volume of funds needed for a what will be a very expensive campaign like no other before it. Also, white people do not particularly like her because of what she did to Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his Senate confirmation hearing. She is not a mother and never raised children, so she cannot relate to mothers enough to bring them over to voting for Joe Biden. Even though she lost it during the primaries , her State California is already safely tucked in for the Democrats and she cannot win any other State for the ticket. She is a deficit and not a credit, so Joe Biden will not pick her.
Then enter the Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, an otherwise safe bet; but being black, will not go down well with the white liberal feminists wing of the Democratic Party, who wants a white woman as Joe Biden's vice presidential pick. She is not an extremist, she is down with the struggle and she will be acceptable to black Americans. But she has no star power to bring in the funds, no national clout and she will not even win Georgia, her State, for the campaign, thus begging the question, what is her utility?
Another name on the shortlist, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham would otherwise be another safe bet, but she is Hispanic and neither white nor black people will accept her rapid ascendancy over them, especially not now, with so much at the stake. Also, she does not have the star power to bring anything to the ticket including funding. She will only win New Mexico which ordinarily always breaks for the Democratic Party and so, she will not be picked.
Susan Rice, although a Washington DC Deep State insider, who has been playing the game of the Democratic Party for such a long time since the days of President Bill Clinton, is eminently qualified for the position, but she is hated by Americans. Her role in the Obama administration, especially the orchestration of the Russian Collusion has dented her so much that her chances of being selected is greatly diminished. She will be a big liability for the ticket than an asset. Also, she does not have the star power clout to reel in the big money and there is no State in particular which she can win for the ticket. Even Joe Biden's wife Jill will oppose her selection, so no deal.
That leaves only the Orlando Florida former police chief and member of House of Representatives from 10th Congressional district, Valdez Venita Demings, as the strongest safe choice for Joe Biden. First, she is real American black woman and she is not too controversial. Her background in law enforcement is also a sure asset at this time of great tribulation in the country following the standoff between the police and the Black Lives Matter. She might help broker a truce and assuage the tension between black people and the police, being one of them respectively. The only problem is that she lacks star power and will also not bring anything of strength to the ticket including funding. She will also not win Florida for the ticket which invariably makes her utility less delightful.
Anyway, it really does not matter who Joe Biden eventually settles on, none of them will bring anything extraordinary to the ticket nor will help the ticket win any major voting bloc or the White House. In this November 3rd 2020 election, Joe Biden is between the hard rock and a concrete wall or as the more popular aphorism will have it between the devil and the deep blue sea; either way he goes or chooses, he will lose. So, for heavens sake, he might as well just cast his lot with any of the six women and just blame her for his eventual inevitable loss on November 3rd, because President Donald John Trump will win his reelection for a second term handily. It does not matter who Joe Biden picks as his vice presidential running mate, the president has done enough to earn a second term and he will win his reelection.
The only thing worthy of commendation in the shortlist is the absence of the Atlanta Governor Stacy Abraham, who thought that winning Atlanta tantamount to winning the State of Georgia. It portrayed Joe Biden in a good serious light as her inclusion would have spelt catastrophe for the campaign. Stacy is quite a handful and she would have destroyed whatever was going on for the Joe Biden's campaign. She is a hot potato and it was good Joe Biden dropped her like it was hot, because she is indeed too hot to handle. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was missing in the list too, which was also very good as she came across as too despotic during the coronavirus lockdown. She brought too many eyeballs on herself and they were mostly unforgiving. Such too controversial figures are not a benefit to any ticket and it was good Joe Biden did not touch both women and left them to their own hothead devices. But hey, who shall it be, Demings or Warren; ICHEOKU tilts Valdez Venita Demings.
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