mothra wrote on Aug 6
th, 2024 at 2:30pm:
Not a one of you morons has been able to tell me why her race matters in the first place.
Gawd, you are tenatiously, grimly determined to be thick, frightbat.
In late April, more than 200 black women who are leaders and activists within the Democratic party signed an open letter to the presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden calling on him to select a black woman as his running mate.
"It is a fact that the road to the White House is powered by Black women and Black women are the key to a Democratic victory in 2020," they wrote.
In early May, about a dozen of the women who had signed that letter made their case directly to Biden and some of his senior staff in a conference call. Their pitch was about timing and history, but it was also about strategy. They believed a black woman would help Biden win the White House.
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The demands to pick a black woman are growing louder, and not just from black voters. Polling from a Politico/Morning Consult survey this week found 46% of Democrats say it's important for Biden to choose a candidate of color as his running mate. That's up from 36% in early April.
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/875000650/pressure-grows-on-joe-biden-to-pick-a-b...