Joe Biden, a former Democratic vice president and now a candidate to defeat the president, Donald Trump, announced on Tuesday that his running mate in case of winning the election will be Kamala Harris.
The Democratic candidate, who will be nominated as Trump's official opponent at the National Convention of his party next week after obtaining the necessary delegates in the primaries, promised to choose a woman as his potential vice president.
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"I'm not looking for someone who will walk into the White House and bend the knee," but who is willing to "tell the truth if they think I'm wrong," Biden said in January.
On the list of potential electives were some of her rivals during the primaries, like Congresswoman Val Demings and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.
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Aug. 6, 202000: 37Another, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, declined to be considered by suggesting that Biden should pick a black woman for the job. Most of the applicants were, in fact, African American.