She is said to be being regarded as Biden’s running mate.
In an interview with ABC’s “The View” hosts on Wednesday, Susan Rice, a former national security adviser to Barack Obama and a potential vice president of Joe Biden, criticized President Donald Trump’s response to reports that the Russian government he was paying rewards to the Taliban. affiliates to kill US soldiers and women in Afghanistan.
“He is absolutely a failure like our commander in chief,” Rice said. “And all the time he is protecting Putin, justifying Russian behavior. In the same interview he said, ‘Well, you know that China is much worse,’ and then he says, ‘And the United States has done the same thing as the Russians during the Afghan war.’ : – and it’s just outrageous. Where is our president, our commander in chief defending our men and women of service? He couldn’t care less and he has a very strange and inexplicable reason to always give Putin the benefit of the doubt and take measures to benefit it. Russia at the expense of the United States. ”
Rice also blamed Trump for the increasing number of deaths due to COVID-19, citing the fact that Trump dissolved the National Security Council unit, established during the Obama Administration, to plan a pandemic response.
“We prepared the incoming administration with a ‘Pandemic for Fools’ playbook, a board exercise and many other briefings,” Rice said. “So the blame here, the blame here, the tragic loss of 150,000 Americans and counting, is on Donald Trump and his mismanagement of this pandemic.”
He also called Trump’s statements “disturbing” that he may not accept the outcome of the November presidential election.
“Our country is based on the peaceful transfer of power and the recognition that voters can decide. So it is clear that Donald Trump will stop at nothing to try to stay in power,” Rice said.
Then he added: “Americans must decisively reject this corruption and abuse of power at the polls. It has to be a resounding defeat for Donald Trump and those in the Senate that allow him to discredit and undermine our democracy.”
During the interview, Rice confirmed that she is being considered Joe Biden’s running mate in November.
“Apparently I am among those being considered for this important role,” Rice told the hosts.
On Tuesday, Biden told reporters that he would have a team during the first week of August and that he is “trying to figure out” how to meet the contenders in person before making his decision.
Rice has decades of foreign policy experience, not only as a national security adviser, considered one of the government’s toughest jobs, but also as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. He also served on the National Security Council under former President Bill Clinton and as Under Secretary of State for African Affairs within the State Department.
Some Democrats fear that selecting Rice for the No. 2 position may resurrect Republican criticism of the handling of the terrorist attack at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
After the 2012 attack, Rice, based on her current intelligence, attended several political television shows on Sundays and said the attack was “spontaneous” after protests in the area. The Obama administration later determined that it was a premeditated attack.
Congressional investigations, many conducted by Republican-led committees, found that Rice did not mislead the public with those opening statements. Despite that, some Republicans continued to attack her.
During his appearance on “The View” on Wednesday, he defended his actions and called the continued Republican attacks on this issue “dishonest and a distraction.”
“I have no doubt Republicans will use this and attack whoever Joe Biden’s election to be his vice president is,” he said.
The Biden campaign is reportedly investigating, among others, Senator Kamala Harris of California, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, along with representatives Val Demings of Florida and Karen Bass of California. You are under increasing pressure to choose a woman of color.
Many of the women thought they were under consideration, most have held elected office. Rice does not have.
If selected, she would be the first African-American woman on a major ticket to a party in November.
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