Elizabeth Warren would be a great Biden running mate, if you want Trump to win
by Kimberly Ross
| May 30, 2020 01:00 AM
Joe Biden needs a running mate. The presumptive Democratic nominee for president has spent the pandemic campaigning on his own, usually from his basement. Frequent blunders, glaring lapses in memory, and even saying during an appearance on The Breakfast Club, "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or for Trump, then you ain't black," are enough to make a supporter cringe. It's not a good look.
In March, Biden announced that he would select a woman as his running mate. The pandering was exhausting from Day One. Add onto that Stacey Abrams's never-ending crusade to be chosen by Biden, and what may have been moderate interest in his choice has turned into major news. Biden is unsteady as a one-man show, so his running mate will have to make up the difference.
One name that has been suggested is Sen. Elizabeth Warren. As a former presidential candidate herself, she is well-known. But the real question is, how well is she liked? In many ways, it seems like picking Warren would do much to help President Trump's reelection campaign.
Warren, who had a promising start in 2019, was consistently polling in third and fourth place by the end of the year. She would remain there for the rest of her campaign. During the primaries, she never did better than third place in any of the contests. Most telling of all was her failure to do well in Massachusetts, her home state. Among the many Democratic choices, she just didn't stand out as a party favorite. To assume that adding her to the Biden ticket would improve his chances is a shaky bet.
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