The Democrats who could be Kamala Harris' running mate
After President Joe Biden announced that he’d end his re-election campaign, attention immediately turned to who will replace him on the ticket.
After President Joe Biden announced that he’d end his re-election campaign, attention immediately turned to who will replace him on the ticket.
Biden quickly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him, prompting a cavalcade of prominent Democrats across the country to follow suit. The decision of who the next Democratic nominee will be ultimately rests with the party’s delegates at the national convention in Chicago next month.
But if Harris does unify the party behind her, she'll be in need of a running mate.
She hasn’t said anything publicly about whom she would consider as a running mate. But here are some of the top names Democrats have floated as potential Harris vice presidential contenders:
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has a proven ability to win over voters in a conservative state.Timothy D. Easley / APBeshear, 46, brings to the ticket all the political benefits of a Southern Democrat who has won convincingly in a conservative state on a pro-reproductive-rights message, as well as a generation shift.
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