The View’s Sunny Hostin argued that former Vice President Joe Biden should pick a black female to be his running mate as a gesture to his base.
Hostin, on the show Friday, backed up her argument by saying that Biden will likely rely on black women to turn out and vote for him in high numbers, so he should do this in exchange for their support.
“I think it’s — I think it’s very important. As a lot of people say, you know, the VP pick is — it isn’t an incentive. It’s a thank you, and I think it should be a thank you to black women,” she began. “I think black women are going to have to carry the load in this election like they always do. We are they’re strongest voting base, and half of black women live in states where I think they are going to obstruct the vote.”
She also said that she didn’t expect there would be mail-in voting during November’s election, thus forcing black women to “risk their lives during this pandemic to vote” because “they’re going to have to bring their sons and their brothers and their fathers and risk their lives to vote.”
Hostin later pointed out that Biden’s path to the party’s nomination wouldn’t have happened had it not been for his dominating performance in the South Carolina primary. She credited the black community in the state with getting Biden’s campaign “out of the grave” and said, “We’ve earned that spot.”
Biden has promised to pick a female running mate, and Stacey Abrams, the failed Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 2018, has actively sought the position.
