Biden finally chose has made his choice of Vice President.
While his already signalled he would choose a black female candidate, the choice is the least controversial choice.
This choice will be exacerbating the US divide. It has a few good things and a few bad things.
- She is not extreme left (she did not support the wealth tax nor the breakup of Facebook).
- She is Indian- Jamaican so it consolidates Biden’s appeal to the Black Community – he is clearly hoping on the Obama effect (under Obama 64% of the Black voters turned out vs normally 60%).
- She is quite eloquent and she would held up in a debate (remember Palin)
- She was a prosecutor and a very hard one- people call her “Cop Kalama”. Especially she was not lenient at all against the Black poor community.
- She is not liked by the Left of the Democrat Party
- In the 90s while dating San Francisco Mayor Brown, she got a few special favours (government car, and highly paid State position) and the mayor got investigated by the FBI
The really interesting thing that could put off a lot of voters is that Biden, 78, always considered himself a “bridge President” as he will be 82 (if he is still fit) in the next election.
This means that American should be prepared to have for the next election an immigrant born (Indian-Jamaican) female Black President. So definitely she will increase the divide (if possible) between Trump supporters and Biden supporters).
At the moment I think she will not have much sway on the outcome (VP rarely do – but the age of Biden could put her more on the centre of attention.
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