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Klobuchar urges Biden to pick a nonwhite woman as running mate

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June 19, 2020
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Shomporko Desk: CHICAGO – Amy Klobuchar says she is dropping out of the running to be VP and encouraging Democrat Joe Biden to pick a girl of colour instead.

The white Minnesota senator, who had seen her possibilities fall as racial pressures cleared the country, said Thursday that she called the hypothetical presidential chosen one Wednesday night and made the recommendation. Biden had just dedicated to picking a lady as his running mate.

Klobuchar said, “I think this is a second to put a woman of colour on that ticket,”.

Biden applauded Klobuchar in a tweet Thursday, referring to her “grit and determination” and saying, “With your assistance, we’re going to beat Donald Trump.”

Klobuchar’s chances of getting the VP gesture reduced after the slaughtering of George Floyd by a white cop in Minneapolis. Klobuchar was a prosecutor years ago in the county that includes Minneapolis, and during that period, more than two dozen people – mostly minorities – died during encounters with police.

Floyd’s death last month set off days of protests across the country and criticism that as the county’s top prosecutor, Klobuchar didn’t charge any of the officers involved in citizen deaths. Officer Derek Chauvin, who was charged with Floyd’s murder, had been involved in one of those cases, the fatal 2006 shooting of a man accused of stabbing people and aiming a shotgun at police.

Chauvin’s case went to a grand jury, as was customary practice for the office at the time after Klobuchar was elected to the Senate and had left the county attorney’s office. Mike Freeman, Klobuchar’s successor as a prosecutor, has said he made “all prosecutorial decisions” about Chauvin. But critics have pointed to the lack of prosecution as a reason Klobuchar shouldn’t be Biden’s pick.

Klobuchar, 60, was among a large field of Democrats who had sought the 2020 presidential nomination, running as a pragmatic Midwesterner who has passed over 100 bills. She dropped out and threw her support behind Biden before the crucial March 3 “Super Tuesday” contests after struggling to win support from black voters, who are crucial to Democratic victories. Her best finish of the primary was in overwhelmingly white New Hampshire, where she came in third.

The third-term senator had to cancel one of the final rallies of her campaign after Black Lives Matter and other activists took the stage in Minnesota to protest her handling of a murder case when she was a prosecutor that sent a black teen to prison for life.

Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, a close Biden ally and Congress’ highest-ranking black lawmaker, said in the days after Floyd’s death that he believed it made Klobuchar a less likely pick for vice-president, though he said she is “absolutely” qualified for the job.

“This is very tough timing for her,” Clyburn said.

Even before Floyd’s death, activists were pushing Biden to consider a woman of colour, saying it would help build a multiracial coalition behind the Democratic ticket and motivate people – particularly younger voters – who may be underwhelmed by the 77-year-old former vice-president’s bid. The founder of She the People, a network of women of colour, called the news that Biden had asked Klobuchar to undergo formal vetting “a dangerous and reckless choice.”

“To choose Klobuchar as vice-president risks losing the very base the Democrats need to win, most centrally women of colour, and could be a fatal blow to the Democrats’ chance to win the White House,” Aimee Allison said in May.

Others wanted Biden to choose a more progressive candidate, who could bring in support from voters who backed Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in the primary. Like Biden, Klobuchar disagreed with Sanders and Warren during the campaign on major issues such as health care, calling “Medicare for All” unachievable and pushing instead for changes to the Affordable Care Act.

Photo credit: Jim Watson, AFP Via Getty Images

News source: The Associated Press

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