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   Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice is promising to   
   support Joe Biden’s run for the presidency while defending her   
   own qualifications as a potential vice-presidential nominee.   
   Rice’s comments came Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press where she   
   told Andrea Mitchell it was premature to suggest she’d be the VP   
   pick.   
      
   Well, Andrea, let’s not get ahead of ourselves here, right? Joe   
   Biden needs to make the decision as to who he thinks will be his   
   best running mate. And I will do my utmost drawing on my   
   experience of years in government, years of making the   
   bureaucracy work. I’ve worked on multiple campaigns,   
   presidential campaigns. I’ve been on the campaign trail as a, as   
   a surrogate. And I’m going to do everything I can to help get   
   Joe Biden elected and to help him succeed as president, whether   
   I’m his running mate or I’m a door knocker. I don’t mind. I just   
   want to get Joe Biden elected and see the Democrats control the   
   Senate and retain the House because, Andrea, we are at a moment   
   where our democracy is at stake, where our leadership role in   
   the world is at stake, where the lives of tens of thousands of   
   Americans are on the line, lost to incompetence and callous   
   leadership that could care less. We’ve got to change that. This   
   country is a tremendous place, but we have work to do to perfect   
   it. We have work to do to unite it. And this president could   
   care less. We need new leadership. And so in whatever capacity I   
   can serve to support Joe Biden and support this country, that’s   
   what I’m going to do.   
      
   It’s a smart stance to take given the fact she appears more of   
   an outside shot for the role compared to Senators Kamala Harris   
   and Elizabeth Warren. Eric-Isaac Dovere wrote at The Atlantic in   
   late May he sees Rice as a potential secretary of defense or   
   secretary of state candidate and that Rice, herself, does not   
   expect to be VP. Her biggest backer appears to be Sout Carolina   
   Congressman Jim Clyburn due to national security issues. Via The   
   Atlantic:   
      
   “I just don’t know how the country will look in the next several   
   months, but it would seem to me that we have a lot to do in this   
   country, not to just restore the confidence in the American   
   people, but we’ve got to restore confidence around the world,”   
   Clyburn said. He told me he’d leave Biden to make a decision   
   based on personal dynamics and polling, but “I don’t know that   
   there’s another African American woman in the country, or any   
   woman other than maybe Hillary Clinton, who has the stripes that   
   she has on foreign policy.”   
      
   This may be why Biden’s familiarity with Rice appears to be   
   putting her among the candidates for VP despite the general   
   consensus Harris will be the running mate. Sources told The Hill   
   today Biden and Rice worked extremely well together in the Obama   
   Administration with one person calling her a “rock star.” That   
   source also used the “gravitas” term not heard since George W.   
   Bush was attempting to decide on a running mate in 2000.   
      
   One factor in this is whether Biden’s camp has serious concerns   
   about losing Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren bloc voters in   
   November. Progressive groups are fans of Harris despite her   
   extremely mixed record on justice reform, a similar record to   
   Biden’s own. Of course, justice reform may not be an issue   
   running up to November given Trump’s focus on “law and order,”   
   and despite the fact he signed FIRST Step Act (something he   
   should run on). Harris or Warren as the VP pick seems more of an   
   appeal towards that bloc of voters even though California and   
   Massachusetts are likely going for Biden in November.   
      
   Rice is mostly a blank slate, despite her past in the Obama   
   Administration. Yes, she’s a bureaucrat so she’d likely explain   
   policy rather decently. However, would she even matter on the   
   ticket? Outside of a potential attack line from Trump on   
   #Obamagate or #Spygate or whatever the hell he’s calling it   
   today. The vice-presidency is a rather pointless office with   
   nebulous duties. It’s been used for coalition building and   
   congressional negotiations but now seems more of a campaign   
   surrogate with the occasional meeting with state and   
   international leaders.   
      
   The fact is this: it’s Biden vs. Trump vs. Jorgensen vs. whoever   
   the Green Party’s nominee ends up being in November. The only   
   way the VP pick really ends up mattering is if Biden picks   
   Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama. And, even then, I’m not sure   
   it would matter.   
      
   https://hotair.com/archives/taylormillard/2020/07/05/susan-rice-   
   defends-vp-qualifications/   
      
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