High-Profile Female Democrats Jockey Behind The Scenes To Become Biden’s VP As They Ignore Tara Reade’s Allegation
High-profile female Democrats are jockeying behind the scenes to become 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden’s running mate while remaining largely silent on his accuser, Tara Reade.
Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is overtly campaigning to become Biden’s running mate,
according to a Politico report Tuesday, telling reporters that she would be an “excellent running mate” and privately calling Democratic power brokers asking them to tell the Biden campaign that she should be his pick for vice president, according to labor leaders familiar with the conversations.
Biden
committed in March that he would select a woman to be his running mate.
Abrams said earlier in April on ABC’s “
The View” that she had “concerns” that Biden might not choose a black woman to become his running mate.
Biden’s former competitors, Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Kamala Harris of California and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, have been more guarded about their desire to be selected as his running mate, according to Politico.
Warren, who said in
mid-April that she would say yes if Biden offered her the opportunity to become his vice president, has taken it upon herself to solicit donations for Biden’s campaign during media appearances, moves that one Biden adviser told Politico were made without direction from the campaign.
Of the four vice presidential prospects, only Klobuchar has publicly addressed allegations made by Reade, a former Senate staffer who worked for Biden in 1993 and has accused him of penetrating her with his fingers without her consent.
(RELATED: Three Female Potential Biden VPs Appeared On Sunday Shows. They Were Not Asked About Tara Reade)
Klobuchar told
MSNBC in mid-April about Reade’s allegation: “I think this case has been investigated. I know the vice president as a major leader on domestic abuse, I worked with him on that.”
High-Profile Female Democrats Jockey Behind The Scenes To Become Biden’s VP As They Ignore Tara Reade’s Allegation