Stacey Abrams is running an unusual campaign to try secure a spot as Joe Biden’s vice presidential pick, but she has an uphill battle ahead.
In a profile about Abrams’s quest to join the Democratic ticket, the Atlantic reported: “According to several people familiar with the campaign’s running-mate selection process, Abrams is not currently a likely choice.”
The former Georgia state legislator and failed 2018 gubernatorial candidate has become a Democratic celebrity. Speculation about her being a vice presidential pick has been circling for over a year, with some even predicting that Biden would name her as his running mate long before he was the presumptive nominee.
It is not clear whether Abrams meets what Biden is looking for in a nominee: someone who is capable of quickly assuming duties as president and someone who meshes with his policy priorities and style.
When confronted with questions about her foreign policy experience, Abrams said that she has “spent the last 20 years thinking about international issues independently and been to 16 countries doing policy work.”
Abrams has talked to Biden in a recent phone call, but she said that the possibility of being the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s running mate did not come up.
Until it does, she continues to make her case publicly.
“I ran the most successful campaign to engage the communities we need to build the broadest coalition necessary in 2020, because what we are going to see on the ground is that this is going to be a campaign unlike anything that’s been run before,” Abrams said. “I’m the only person I know of that’s in this conversation who has successfully run multimillion-dollar nonprofits, for-profits, and have led teams at the state and the local level.”
