Gretchen Whitmer is not vice presidential material

Few vice presidential picks have been as consequential as Joe Biden’s surely will prove. If the de facto Democratic nominee does indeed win the presidency, he will be 78 years old on Inauguration Day, older than Ronald Reagan, the nation’s oldest president ever, was on his last day in office.

Despite more than a year of naysaying from a Democratic establishment in want of a newer, shinier, and more intersectional hero, Biden beat the odds. He handily won the nomination with blockbuster turnout in states he dominated, the unrelenting support of the black electorate, and most importantly, with a campaign that overwhelmingly refused to bend the knee to the Bernie Bros.