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Amy Kloppuchar leaves Biden’s deputy a dispute and says he must choose a color woman

By Admin / June 19, 2020

“This is a historic moment, and America must seize this moment. And I really think, as I said to the Vice President last night when I called him, I think this is a moment to put a colorful woman on that ticket.” Klopachar, a Minnesota Democrat, told Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC.

“There are a lot of incredibly qualified women, but if you want to heal this nation now, my party … this is definitely a way to do it.”

Biden offered warm words to Klobuchar soon after her comments on MSNBC.

“Amy – from the moment you announced your candidacy for the presidency in a snowstorm, it wasn’t hard to see that you had the resolve and determination to do anything you define.” “You know how to get things done. With your help, we will defeat Donald Trump.”

Clobuchar has been promoted for months as a promising candidate for vice president because of her centrist appeal and getting to know her name after her White House bid. However, her prospects have diminished in recent weeks as Biden faces increasing pressure to choose a color woman as its president to run in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers.

Floyd’s death in Minneapolis has sparked long-standing democratic concerns about the record career of Clobuchar and her seven years as the most populous prosecutor in Minnesota County, a position she acquired by promising to be tough on crime.

Renewed questions about the criminal justice record – along with what many saw as their inability to address the long-standing accusations of racism within the Minneapolis police force and their failure to press charges against many officers involved in the shootings during their tenure as the attorney general’s summit – prompted some within the Democratic Party to say Frankly, they will question Biden’s rule and commitment to black voters if he chooses Clopochar as his candidate.

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After suspending its presidential bid in early March, Klopachar was the first major candidate for 2020 with a number of delegates who announced that they would support Biden.

She insisted that Biden could bring the country together and build a coalition of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans “because we don’t want our party to win. We want to win big.” In her franchise speech, Kloppuchard replaced her name with Biden, saying: “I think you know you have a house with Joe Biden,” changing a popular streak.

Biden himself has not committed himself to choosing a black woman, telling CNN last month: “There are women of a color under consideration and there are women from every part of the country under consideration because there are so many really qualified women ready to be president.”

“But I do not make this commitment. I will make this judgment after this group actually passes an interview with all these people,” he said.

Biden said he hopes to choose his election colleague on August 1.

This story has been updated to include additional reactions and background information.

CNN’s Dan Merica contributed to this report.

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