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By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. Coleman trained for 17 years as a reporter with the Call and Post Newspaper and is an investigative and political reporter with a background in legal and scientific reporting. She is also a former 15-year public school biology teacher.
CLEVELAND, Ohio-Former vice president Joe Biden (pictured) will name his vice presidential running mate by next week, he announced Tuesday during a campaign rally in his home state of Delaware.
Specifically he said he would make such choice "the first week in August," which is next week.
He will accept the Democratic nomination during the Democratic National Convention beginning the week of Aug. 17 in Milwaukee.
He has promised that his running mate pick will be a woman.
Biden served as vice president under former president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president.
He officially clinched the Democratic nomination in early June and will face incumbent Republican President Donald Trump for the 2020 presidential election in November.
He needed 1,991 of the 3,979 pledged delegates to claim the nomination, which he surpassed
Winning the nomination was all but ensured when Biden's closest opponent dropped out of the race, U.S. Sen Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a socialist Democrat who was making his second bid for president after losing the nomination to Hillary Clinton in 2016, Clinton going on to lose the general election to Trump, a real estate mogul and former television personality.
During his bid this time around for the Democratic nomination Sanders, as was Biden, was effective in narrowing the more than 28 Democratic candidates down to the two of them.
Sanders nearly won Iowa, coming in second place to Pete Buttigieg, who left the race and announced his endorsement of Biden.
Sanders went on to win New Hampshire and Nevada.
But Biden, powered by the Black vote and an endorsement from Black U.S. Rep James Clyburn, subsequently won South Carolina, and Super Tuesday, and never looked back.
Obama and Sanders, and nearly all of the other Democratic candidates for president, and the Dems in general, have endorsed Biden.
Biden, 77, remains the pragmatic choice of Black voters for president, and southern and elderly Black voters simply adore him.
A popular Republican among his strong base of supporters, President Trump still lags behind him in nearly every poll, including Quinnipiac, CNN, ABC News/Washington Post, and Emerson polls.
Even the conservative-leaning Fox News poll shows Biden ahead of Trump.
And while polls show Biden is the favorite to win the presidency this year, when Democrats and Black people stay home and do not vote, or, since the coronavirus outbreak, choose not to vote by mail, it helps the Republicans, data show.
While Black voter turnout for the first time in history proportionately outpaced Whites in 2012 when Obama ran for reelection, it declined by 7 percentage points in 2016 when Clinton lost the presidency to Trump, pundits saying that if Blacks vote in this year's election like they did in 2012 Biden has a good chance of beating Trump.
There is no question that both Blacks and Democrats must vote in large numbers for a win for Biden to materialize, pundits have said.
Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.
