After the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis last month, calls for police reform and racial justice have reverberated nationwide.
Klobuchar says she called Biden and told him,"I truly believe ... this is a moment to put a woman of color on that ticket." "There are so many incredibly qualified women. But if you want to heal this nation right now. My party, yes, but our nation, this is sure a hell of way to do it. And that's just what I think after being through this in my state."Klobuchar ran her own campaign for the Democratic nomination, picking up some late momentum. She had a moderate, Midwestern appeal, but failed to excite the Democratic base or voters of color.
Several women of color have been floated as possible VP picks including California Sen. Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams, Florida Rep. Val Demings, Susan Rice and New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. , Biden is also facing increased pressure from black women leaders and activists in the Democratic party to pick select a black woman as his running mate.
Her input on the matter is not needed or even wanted
I hate to see you go, Amy.
Peach is a color too
Off E.Warren's Christmas card list but on Mr. Trump' s. Biden' s job just got harder.
Does one actually apply for the job of V.P.?
So, after gender and color, what is important next? When do we discuss ability and merit?
Ok thanks amyklobuchar LOL
Trump May have a chance which sucks for this country because if he wins, we lose. We’re already falling apart. People are falling in line with his smart ass methods as witnessed on this thread alone. He tweets nonsense and we gobble it up.
She would be good though
Sure that's it.
Ugh, she’s more and more like a female Tim Kaine every day
How about he picks a woman of qualification regardless of color.
$10 that he will pick Michelle Obama. I am up for nostalgia.
StaceyAbramsforVP
It's doesn't matter how competent you are, how smart you, and how position suits your experience and knowledge. You must suits frame, created by mob. It's typical for all liberal, socialist, and communist movements.
I’m not sure how I feel about this. I’d like to see a running mate chosen for their ability, not gender or color. This sounds like they’re being picked largely because of those two things.
Hope we don't say down the road that she was the best candidate never picked for higher office...
Thank goodness.
I’m so impressed with amyklobuchar! Such grace and class!
And someone who knows who the president of Mexico is.
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Make way for tokenism- ugh- our politics are bullshit
So Democratic VP is being picked solely based on skin color? Not attributes, knowledge, hard work, education, or qualifications. Is that correct? Is this not exactly what the riots supposedly about? I know, it's the Liberals double edge sword again. Be careful, it's very sharp
How about dropping out because Biden it's against everyone of color? How about acknowledging he helped create the storm we're in?
Yeah well she can withdraw and take her suggestion with her. Warren and Whitmer are still very much alive.
Like she had a chance. It’s like the fat woman in the office that you smile at her, and she thinks you want to date her. And she says I’m not dating now. 🤣🤣🤣
No he should pick Warren.
KamalaHarris then ?
I am sorry but she wasn’t considered.😂
We need a president, vp, and a congress that understands they need to work together, build bridges and fix a lot. Currently congress is the greatest waste of funding we have.
Joe: “gee, ya think?”
NM Governor Lujan Grisham
Democrats once again snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Identity politics is a blight... meritocracy is the wave of the future. THIS IS STUPID Dont pick leaders just cause they have certain skin tones and genitalia... you pick leaders based off of their merit and skill and heart
Let me get this straight: If a cop shoots someone, the left blames it on the cop But if a criminal shoots someone, the left blames it on the gun? 🤔
She broke up with him before he could break up with her.
Too bad. She would have been awesome
The soft bigotry of low expectations
Wow how magnanimous of her 🙄
🤔did somebody get to Her? I've No true reason to doubt Her I don't know Her, Just Hope PC Ducks aren't being Put Inna Row & Her Narrative can remain Safe-ish and Limbo-esque? A Woman of Colour WOULD be Perfection 4 MANY, but ALL OF YOU NEED 2 LOVE WHAT'S BEST 4TheUSAPOSTDJT🙏🏽🆙
My favorite for VP as she's the biggest heart of anyone.
I appreciate what she is recommending, but Elizabeth Warren is best prepared to be Vice President. These women of color are tremendous women who are desperately needed in top jobs in the administration. Kamala Harris as attorney general for example.
why is she so stupid
Who really cares!
Thank you Amy!
No. He should pick the BEST candidate. Tulsi!!
He should pick the best person to help him win / run the country. If a woman of color, great. If not, that's okay.
Finally
He should pick the most qualified running mate, man, woman, black or white.
Karen believes a woman of color will get the opportunity only when she gives her permission. This is some white savior trash that takes credit for a historic moment.
There goes Democrat’s most qualified candidate
White folks are so confused about giving up power and privilege, especially when acknowledge that there is inherent bias in how they get “chosen”. It’s politics. She knows she got chosen by Joe BECAUSE she is a woman. Now she is saying if you’re playing that, then trust WOC too.
A politician doing what’s right for all in this country wow
Harris for le win
What a hero
Fox5Shawn There is a guardian angel after all... cause she wasn’t it.
Good. We need someone more progressive
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Martin Luther King Jr
Right 😂😂😂
She’s looking for a pat on the back when she should have quietly took a seat. This is 100% pandering and NO ONE should be impressed by it.
We currently have the worst president in our age, and the democrats still can’t get their heads out of their asses.
Nobody wants to be Biden’s running mate. Don’t blame them
OH SHIT IT'S GOING TO BE REAL
Replying to amyklobuchar Who is Amy Klobuchar to try to publicly pressure the next President on who Vice President should be? Had a few good sound bites in debate, no way qualified to be president herself. Right to withdraw, embarrassing herself by trying to still be relevant.
If she cared about the country, Elizabeth Warren should withdraw from consideration. We'll see if she cares more about herself, or the good of the country.
Whew delusions of grandeur are strong with that one.
Who cares?
Ridiculous.
She's so brave.
Aunt Jamima is now available
If you want people to stop focusing on color, then start focusing on skills and brains first!
Stacey ABRAMS!!!! For VP!!!
Breakthrough in online youth ministry:
Her chances went to zero on May 25th. And she knows it. Whatever the reason was for her not to bring charges against Derek Chauvin in 2006 as a lead prosecutor in Minneapolis, the damage is done. Her name will be indelibly linked to the killer as long as she is in contention.
'THat PRIVELEGE', Fully exercised, Exibit A. So mighty righteous of her. SHE'S stepping aside, otherwise a black woman wouldn't be in the running. Implicit self righteous. Just drop out. We know that even competing against white women, you're subpar.
Klonuchar is not a color?
So she is saying Joe Biden should pick a woman, not the most qualified? This is why Dems suck
He wasn’t picking you no way.
Lol you don’t get brownie points for removing yourself from something that you weren’t guaranteed 😂😂😂. Oh yeah, and obvious identity politics is obvious.
Kamala Harris, next please
Nothing to do with not prosecuting chauvin then, gotcha.
Biden will take advice from Amy if he wants to lose the election. But if really and truly wants to win, he will pick Elizabeth Warren!
Class and patriotism.
What a loss, she's a joke...
😢
oh my god shut up
Great for the country that amyklobuchar dropped out. The fact that she thinks gender & race are significant qualifications says that she is a racist with no clue what it takes to be president.
AK knew she had a snowball’s chance in hell after MN debacle.
Smart move. His legacy is tainted with racism. This gives you a solid chance to fix any bad karma you might have. Regroup and wait for 2024. Joe won’t win anyway. He’s picking someone based on color. Which means if he didn’t need them to win he wouldn’t pick them. It’s color smfh
Well played.
They trying to fix that election like New York corrupt judges fix trials to their determination
I think Elizabeth Warren would be great!
I think I guess who will be chosen to be the partner of joe binden (michelle obama) political strategy
Why not saying the best person for the job without mentioning color or gender why do we have to go with color what if there weren't G Floyd demo and BLM? Politic dirty game
She's being magnanimous because she's clearly been told she's not the one. Gross. She should pull a SenWarren and claim she's 1/1026th woman of color...
People commenting apparently have no clue how prior VP candidates (almost all white males) have been picked for the past 230 years. Only NOW it’s “pick the best qualified.”
Well gee thanks Amy 🙄 Like a woman of color can’t be chosen on her own merit 🙄
DenzelScott Shit, I said that a year ago.
In other words. Let’s virtue signal cause I wasn’t going to get the job anyway. Just get Ahead if the story right Amy 😂😂😂😂
After 60 years of promoting civil rights and equality liberals finally admit it is the color of your skin, not the content of your character, that is ones most important feature. Glad to see you are finally embracing your racism and being honest about what you really believe.
Senator, can you let him pick his running mate? Without your input? Why does everyone think they should have a voice in this?
No...she doesn’t want to be associated with Joe Biden’s train wreck campaign.
'I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged [for better or ill] by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.' Martin Luther King, Jr. Not tokenism. Not this way.
Tulsi fits the bill in every way. The only chance I’d ever vote for Biden is if he ran with her because there’s a strong chance she’d be taking charge in less than a year 💀
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
Saving face early wise move
Can say “person of color” but never say “colored person”.
OR someone who does their job?
She is every white leftist woman.
The white saviour strikes again.
She never had a shot...never
Well, so Amy self-proclaimed herself as the VP frontrunner (even tho she was far from it) and in doing so, diminishes the the status of the pending selection as a “second choice”. What a dick move! Maybe the rumors are true about her. Geezus. Effing lame.
Sorry to hear this. You were my first choice. Thank you for your service.
She just had to burn ewarren and make this statement instead of going away quietly
How about the Democrats stop trying to pander to blacks once again?! Just pick the right person. To just come out saying pick a black woman is just like affirmative action so even if a woman of color gets that position they will say she only got it bc....y’all know the narrative.
Buh bye 👋
Candice Owens should be our first female president.
She wasn’t going to be chosen so whatever.
Told the Lakers I am sitting out the rest of the season due to Covid. Told them to play LeBron instead.
He should pick someone who doesn't abuse their staff.
Oprah ?
Huh. Ok
Ha! She wasn’t the best choice either.
Nobody wins in November regardless of the outcome...
danbrekke The mass crazyiness happening within your state is an obvious clue you should have withdrawn from JB's consideration weeks ago..
Harris would be the obvious choice for dems if it weren’t for the fact that she polls terribly with black voters. Abrams hasn’t sought political office. I don’t know what Klobuchar is trying to get at other than being patronizing.
woah this is noble as heck. i appreciate her a lot for this
Prolly cause tvv HA are what he was going to do anyway, and she wants us to think it was her magnanimous idea.
Lol with drawing, we can see right through this amyklobuchar , you didn't convict that cop in MN and now your using BlackLivesMatter folks to try to get positive spin. disgrace ! JoeBiden told ya no go!
Jesus Christ! What a dissapointment she must be to her supporters. Don’t ever vote for her. She’s a sellout to the party line.
One last knife to SenWarren on the way out. Neither was going to get it but Klob wanted to slip the blade in.
Why does it have to be 'a woman of color'. Should it not be - 'the best person for the job'.
Ilhan Omar would probably ruin the ticket, but if they won, I’d relish in the disgust of the alt-right.
Not surprising. Vetting is a thing, and she has a very problematic background.
Kamala Harris...she's the one that will bring them all to justice and prison.
The only chance she had VP was if Sanders got the nod because he would have needed a moderate to balance his far left leanings.
Not an orange one.
Why not a man of color?
primaryamy
Coppertone woman?
maybe they should pick the best person for the job no matter who it is. Biden's mental health is visibly declining, and the VP is most likely going to be stepping in at some point if he wins. this choice can't just be about blatantly obvious tokenism
It's the only card the DNC has left: they won't abolish qualified immunity, they won't de-fund police, so they'll parade their kente cloths and play their identity cards. The US Congress has devolved into a pathetic charade. It's time to call their bluff.
Woman who hasn’t been offered job turns it down. This isn’t newsworthy.
Or maybe the most fit candidate? Or is that too old school
How considerate of her, not like she was tossed after Minneapolis
PS. Also, good choice, no point on getting on a shrinking ship
A little bird told her she was out of contention.
She’s off the list because she had the chance to prosecute Derek chauvin many times a didnt. She’s an embarrassment.
All people are 'of color.'
Agreed, don’t pick the best candidate, just racial pandering... well done Amy, you’ve exposed yourself as the fraud you really are
Thanks Amy!
MichelleObama
Or a man of color. obama
There goes my Biden vote
Does anyone really believe she was even on the list?
ninaturner!!
Just any random one? Why are we not wanting him to make the choice based on real attributes? Maybe it is a female and maybe she is “of color”. Don’t make it seem like just any one female of color is best suited for this. Concentrate on winning. Can’t change anything if you lose
All these schmucks angling for some cushy Cabinet role.
Lmfao! Really misses that spotlight hah
Well, I guess I should withdraw myself from consideration as well.
Maybe a green alien ?
She failed to prosecute George Floyd’s killer on multiple prior instances. That’s what this about. Besides- no one wanted Klobuchar! She was an artificial candidate propped up by media and journalists who would dawn over her every debate performance despite public disagreeing.
Very disappointing. She was the most moderate choice.
More BS pandering. Worse that many are so blinded by melanin that they’ll vote for it even though they’re being used.
She wasn’t going to be picked anyway.
Well done. She’s right. Now let’s carry on. We have 138 days. Fox polls showing Trump down again. Yes, even now lower than May.
Good. She’s unfit. An abuser of her staff and refused multiple times to prosecute DerekChauvin when she had the power to stop him. Good riddance.
Amy your day will come! We appreciate all you do for us on MN!
This is more than giving up the VP bid. This is pressuring Biden to pick a black woman.
Or maybe just MAYBE it's because she didn't prosecute george floyd's killer when she had the chance to That fraud Harris should withdraw too for being a terrible COP who threw innocent minorities in jail and wanted to LOCK UP PARENTS if their kids skipped school 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
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