By: Caitlin Oprysko – politico.com – April 22, 2020

Abrams, who is black, initially sidestepped that charge, telling Hostin that “I think Vice President Biden is going to make a smart choice, and I appreciate the fact that he has lifted up women as being a necessary partner in this.”

Still, she continued, “I would share your concern about not picking a woman of color because women of color — particularly black women — are the strongest part of the Democratic Party, the most loyal, but that loyalty isn’t simply how we vote. It’s how we work, and if we want to signal that that work will continue, that we’re going to reach not just to certain segments of our community, but to the entire country, then we need a ticket that reflects the diversity of America.”

Biden said late Tuesday his campaign plans to announce the members of his vice presidential selection committee, who will begin interviewing and vetting potential picks, by May 1.

In an interview on CBS’ “Late Late Show with James Corden,” the former vice president predicted that he could have a short list of up to three potential running mates by “sometime in July.”

Since her narrow loss to Gov. Brian Kemp in 2018, Abrams has remained a rising star in the Democratic party, forgoing rumored bids for both the White House and the Senate last year. After initially playing coy about whether she would accept the vice presidential gig, Abrams has shifted over the past few months to openly campaigning for the job.

“I would be an excellent running mate,” Abrams told Elle magazine last week. She’s since said Biden’s team hasn’t yet contacted her about the potential VP slot, but she has continued to publicly make her case to be Biden’s running mate.

Wednesday on “The View,” she explained her open self-promotion, reasoning that “I try to be straight forward because while we hope the work speaks for itself, sometimes the work needs a hype man, and I learned early on that if I didn’t speak for myself, I couldn’t tell the story.”

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