Hillary Rodham Clinton should reject pressure to pick a woman, Hispanic or black as her running mate and choose a white guy, a top Democratic pollster urged Tuesday.
Long-time political analyst Peter Hart told a convention of the National Association of Realtors that a minority heavy ticket headed by a woman is not a winner.
“I don’t think she can pick a woman and I don’t think she can pick an Hispanic because I think it would be very hard to have a woman and a minority, I should say Hispanic or an African American,” said Hart.
Instead, he said, she needs a “white male on the ticket.”
He said that Clinton has two paths in considering a veep.
“Look at somebody who is either going to help her with the left, which I think means a Sherrod Brown out of Ohio, the senator, or somebody who will help her again in a purple state, be more moderate, such as a Tim Kaine,” the Virginia senator, he said.
Hart appeared with Republican Pollster Bill McInturff.
McInturff said that Trump should stick with his outsider theme and pick a military officer as vice president. That, he said, would help settle questions voters have about Trump’s foreign policy and national security plans.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
