When it comes to choosing a vice president, Joe Biden
Joe BidenTrump campaign cancels ad purchase to overhaul messaging strategy: Nunes report refuses to respond if it received information from Ukraine lawmaker intended to harm Biden poll: ‘Generation Z’ plurality of voters says who see more Trump political announcements than Biden MORE You have different reasons for selecting each contestant.
Biden likes the senator. Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth WarrenFox’s Perino says Biden will not choose Susan Rice for shooting from the right. If Biden wins, why do some suppose he will only serve one term? The Hill Campaign Report: Biden Nears Vice Presidential Election MORE‘s (D-Mass.) ideas and proposals. He admires the senator. Kamala Harris
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But senator Tammy Duckworth
Ladda (Tammy) Tammy Duckworth NIGHT-TIME ENERGY: EPA rule extends life of toxic coal ash ponds | The Flint class action lawsuit against Mich. May proceed, court rules | Senate Democrats present the environmental justice bill Senate Democrats present the environmental justice bill Republican lawmaker says he will oppose any attempt to delay elections MORE represents something close to Biden’s heart: she is an American heroine.
The Illinois Democrat, a veteran who lost both legs in the Iraq war and received the Purple Heart, is on Biden’s restricted list. And some at Biden World who know the former vice president will say Duckworth is exactly the type of partner who is well suited to the former vice president.
“Anyone who knows him well knows what the United States Army means to him,” said one confidant. “And the fact is, it not only ticks the boxes, it has an amazing story and it represents not just who the vice president is at its core but the narrative that he has been talking about since his campaign began.”
“You could easily see why he is in dispute for this job,” added the confidant.
Senator Dick durbin
Richard (Dick) Joseph DurbinSchumer: Trump should want COVID-19 deal to aid Republican election chances Republican Senators rebel against coronavirus proposal VOA visa decision could hinder Venezuela’s coverage MORE (D), the Illinois senior senator, said he supports Duckworth being named Biden’s running mate, adding that he has told the Biden team.
“She is an amazing story, life story,” said Durbin in an interview. “Disabled veteran, incredible determination, who remade her life and now serves in the Senate. She is a symbol of success for the disabled community.
“She has a lot of things for her,” added the senator. “She has counties in Illinois that I don’t because people respect her military credentials.”
Durbin, who said he knows Duckworth “has been in the mix for a while” on Biden’s shortlist, noted that “writers and other political leaders” have promoted him to Duckworth.
“A former senator, a Democratic senator, contacted me last week and said it is a great choice,” he added. “She is a face of the veteran community, the disabled community, the Asian American community. She has many things for her. ”
Biden, who has vowed to select a woman as his running mate, said this week that he would make a decision next week.
On Thursday, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (D) told Yahoo News that he pressured Biden to choose Duckworth, saying “a war hero would be an excellent vice president of the United States.”
Biden and Duckworth met after she introduced her late son, Beau, to the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. She continued to grow closer with both Biden and his wife, Jill, when she worked in the Obama administration as an assistant secretary in the Department of Veterans Affairs as the Bidens became involved in veterans-related policy and affairs.
Duckworth was named the most effective first-term Democratic senator in the 115th Congress by the Center for Effective Legislation, a partnership between Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia.
He got three of his 45 sponsored bills that became law in the last Congress, including the 2018 Veteran Small Business Improvement Act, which allows veteran-owned small businesses to receive surplus property owned by the federal government.
But Duckworth’s supporters say his life story is much more than his experiences during combat.
They note that his family was on food stamps when he moved to Hawaii when Duckworth was in high school. Sometimes he passed out from hunger at school and kept meals to share with his parents.
Despite such difficulties, Duckworth has tried to stay light-hearted and humorous, which supporters compare to Biden’s reputation as a “happy warrior.”
But it also showed that he could fight President Trump
Donald John Trump Trump campaign cancels purchase of ads to review messaging strategy: Nunes report declines to respond if it received information from Ukraine lawmaker meant to harm Biden poll: plurality of ‘Generation Z’ voters says who see more Trump political announcements than Biden MORE earlier this month after she called the conservative president and television presenter Tucker Carlson
Peruck, of Tucker CarlsonFox, says that Biden will not choose Susan Rice due to a shot from the right Trump again attacks Fox: “They completely forgot who took them to where they are” New Jersey gym owners arrested for defying the coronavirus closing order MORE “Insecure and selfish men” after they publicly questioned their patriotism.
The fight began after Duckworth called for a “national dialogue” about the removal of the statues of the Founding Fathers, including President George Washington, who owned slaves.
Carlson accused her of being one of the Democrats who “hates the United States” and later called her a “coward.”
Biden launched into the attack, calling it “disgusting and disgusting” for Trump and his allies to use that language against Duckworth and a “reflection of the depravity of what is happening in the White House right now.”
If Democrats say that if she doesn’t make the cut for Biden’s running mate, she will certainly be considered for cabinet posts.
“Regardless of how the veepstakes turn out for Senator Duckworth, I think most Democrats would expect her to be part of a Biden cabinet in some way,” said Democratic strategist Joel Payne. “Sen. Duckworth has a very compelling personal narrative, and she’s obviously a real-life rude.”
Durbin added: “I don’t want him to leave the Senate.
“But if she is going to leave him, let her be vice president,” she said.
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