House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Wednesday that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is the “best person” Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden may have selected as vice president.
Pelosi told MSNBC’s Craig Melvin in an interview Wednesday that the former attorney had outperformed others on criteria that had little to do with his race and gender, points that had overshadowed the headlines even before Biden announced a historic resolution to Harris as the first African-American and Asian. . American woman to appear on the presidential price ticket of a primary party.
“Let’s recognize her not only as the first woman of color to be vice president, but also as the most productive imaginable user she could have selected to qualify for this election and, of course, to win and serve the American people,” Pelosi said. .
Pelosi’s comments are attached to comments from President Donald Trump and others, which attracted the race as a tactic for Trump’s re-election. Trump and conservative news anchors focused on race and gender as defining attributes and the only criterion at stake in Biden’s election after some Democratic lawmakers called Biden the first primary to elect a woman of color as vice president.
Hours before Biden announced his resolution Tuesday, Trump took pity on his Democratic opponent on a Fox Sports Radio screen, suggesting biden had “gotten, you know, into a secure organization of people.” Trump told host Clay Travis that some men might feel “insulted” if Biden fulfilled his commitment to a woman.
Last week, Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson accused Biden of turning his range of vice president “exclusively” into the foundation of race and gender, a resolution he called “probably illegal.” In an effort to discredit Harris and others, Carlson said that “no lead candidate” would regularly make the California senator or several of the other black women who, according to Biden’s allies, were being edited for the role, saying that “they would all be disqualified without debate. “
Trump continually called Harris a “bad boy” at a news convention after Biden’s announcement Tuesday and hours later told Sean Hannity of Fox News in an interview that Harris was “disrespectful” and a “dangerous choice.”
“I have no choice,” Trump told Hannity Tuesday night. “But we’re going to have him here, we have a perfect vice president named Mike Pence and he’s going to do business like he did the last time he did any other candidate.”