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Joe Biden’s VP Pick: Twice in Love With Amy?

Stephen Hanks
5 min readApr 15, 2020

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Now that Bernie and Barack and Liz (Oh, my!) have offered their full-throated endorsements of Joe Biden as the 2020 Democratic Presidential nominee, our prime pandemic political parlor game is predicting who’d be Uncle Joe’s VP pick. It’s easier than ever this election cycle since Biden announced one month ago that his Veep will be a woman — no ifs, ands, buts, maybes, Sanderses, or Cuomos. And rightly it should be, even if Joe decides on Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Political pundits throughout the media have been floating the same 10 names since all the Democratic women Senate candidates dropped out of the Presidential race. Every one of them is not only qualified to be VP, but as President would be infinitely superior to the current idiotic, ignorant, incompetent, inanity in the White House. So, Biden’s ultimate Number Two must be a decision driven by priority Number One — who can best help him defeat the Authoritarian wannabe in November.

Since Joe Biden will turn 78 less than three weeks after this election, and could very easily be a one-term President (either due to health or by choice), the potential VP must also be ready to rule in five years or less. Hence, this prediction necessitates a process-by-elimination approach that considers passion and policy as well as politics; one that recognizes both head and heart. Keep in mind that after…

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Stephen Hanks
Stephen Hanks

Written by Stephen Hanks

Award-Winning Magazine Editor/Writer is a Patriotic and Passionate Progressive Pontificating on Politics, Media, Sports, Music, and Social Issues.

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