While there are a few non-White or female candidates under consideration, the list of possibilities is dominated by politically moderate White men.
Top row, from left: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper. Bottom row from left: Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.
But the degree and speed with which the conventional wisdom took hold — that if she wants to win, Harris must choose a White man as her vice president — reflects, at its most cynical, that the nation will tolerate only so much deviation from its White male founding, even as the overall political world is more diverse than ever.
Betsy Rowbottom, 53, an interior designer from Milwaukee, said she would love to see Sen. Cory Booker ,who is Black, or Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who is gay, as her vice president, but she doesn’t think either has a shot. Kimberly Peeler-Allen, co-founder of Higher Heights for America, a group focused on mobilizing and electing Black women, said that because of racism and sexism — both latent and overt — a “White statesman as a validator” can help buoy a historic first as the nominee. She pointed to Barack Obama’s selection of Biden as his running mate in 2008.
Indeed, most unofficial lists of whom Harris should pick include few non-White men. There have even been whispers in some corners that Shapiro — one of the would-be running mates who many Republicans say they privately most fear — might not be an ideal choice because of his adamant support of Israel in the Gaza conflict, or that being gay could disqualify Buttigieg, who ran for president himself in 2020 and is widely considered one of his party’s best communicators.
He added that her campaign should not be “a DEI commercial,” using an acronym for diversity, equity and inclusion, and noted that “I do think a little toxic masculinity would help her.”“She’s defined a great deal by women’s issues and Black issues, and that’s great, but is she more than that?” Castellanos said.
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