Who’s Leading the Fraught Biden Veepstakes Now?

7. Keisha Lance Bottoms

The Clyburn advantage.

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn maintains a certain amount of clout within Biden’s apparatus because of that time he, uh, singlehandedly won the flailing Biden campaign the Democratic presidential nomination. Clyburn has been pushing the campaign to pick a black woman from Georgia, and it’s not Stacey Abrams. “There’s something to be said,” Clyburn said of Abrams, in a typically understated dagger, “for somebody who has been out there.” Instead, Clyburn notes “there is a young lady right there in Georgia who I think would make a tremendous VP candidate, and that’s the mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms.” Bottoms was an early supporter of, and active surrogate for, the Biden campaign, through the good times and the bad. She is, however, unknown nationally, and the Biden campaign will be hesitant to pick someone who has to go through the national public vetting process from scratch. But if Jim Clyburn is going to throw your name out without prompting, it’s pretty likely you’ll at least get a look from the campaign and—more importantly—a slot on the Surge.

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