Opinion: Don’t do it, Stacey Abrams
By Karen Tumulty Karen Tumulty Columnist covering national politics Email Bio Follow Columnist March 21 at 5:47 PM Don’t do it, Stacey Abrams. It’s a terrible idea.
It is easy to see why Biden would find the idea appealing, presumptuous as it is. What is harder to understand is why Abrams would accept such an offer if Biden were to make it. Abrams, 45, was born 11 months after Biden first arrived in the U.S. Senate. After she lost a breathtakingly close race for Georgia governor last year, she emerged with such standing that she was handed the job of delivering the Democratic response to President Trump’s Feb. 5 State of the Union address.
If she joins Biden’s ticket, of course, there is always the possibility that she could make history in an even bigger way. But the gimmick is so transparent that it also carries the real risk of devaluing her own political brand. In 1991, Biden caught a significant share of the blame for the Judiciary Committee’s callous treatment of Anita Hill after she stepped forward during Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearing and accused the Supreme Court nominee of sexual misconduct. It was not a good look for Biden, even before the #MeToo movement.
Going into the 1976 GOP convention, Ronald Reagan tried to dislodge some Pennsylvania delegates by naming that state’s moderate senator, Richard S. Schweiker, as his running mate. All Reagan succeeded in doing was upsetting his own conservative supporters.
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