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‘America Must Seize on this Moment’: Klobuchar Drops Out of Veepstakes, Urges Biden to Pick Woman of Color (WATCH)

June 19, 2020 by John Wright Leave a Comment

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Thursday night withdrew her name from the running to be Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s running mate, urging him to instead pick a woman of color.

BREAKING: Sen. Klobuchar announces she is withdrawing from consideration to be Joe Biden's vice presidential choice: "I think this is a moment to put a woman of color on that ticket." pic.twitter.com/xk4zZIP7Yd

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 19, 2020


“After what I’ve seen in my state, after what I’ve seen across the country. this is a historic moment, and America must seize on this moment,” Klobuchar told MSNBC, referring to the racial justice movement sparked by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

“And I truly believe, as I actually told [Biden] last night when I called him, I think this is a moment to put a woman of color on that ticket, and there are so many incredibly qualified women, but if you want to heal this nation right now — my party, yes, but our nation — this is sure a hell of a way to do it, and that’s just what I think after being through this in my state,” Klobuchar said.

Amy — from the moment you announced you were running for president in a snowstorm, it wasn't hard to see you had the grit and determination to do anything you set your mind to. You know how to get things done. With your help, we’re going to beat Donald Trump. https://t.co/4kquPZtSV9

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 19, 2020

The Associated Press reports: Klobuchar’s chances at getting the VP nod diminished after the killing of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis. Klobuchar was a prosecutor years ago in the county that includes Minneapolis, and during that period, more than two dozen people — mostly minorities — died during encounters with police. Floyd’s death last month set off days of protests across the country and criticism that as the county’s top prosecutor, Klobuchar didn’t charge any of the officers involved in citizen deaths. Officer Derek Chauvin, who was charged with Floyd’s murder, had been involved in one of those cases, the fatal 2006 shooting of a man accused of stabbing people and aiming a shotgun at police. … The third-term senator had to cancel one of the final rallies of her campaign after Black Lives Matter and other activists took the stage in Minnesota to protest her handling of a murder case when she was prosecutor that sent a black teen to prison for life.

More from CNN: Biden himself has not committed to picking a black woman, telling CNN’s Dana Bash last month: “There are women of color under consideration and there are women from every part of the country under consideration because there are a lot of really qualified women that are ready to be president.””But I’m not making that commitment. I’m going to make that judgment after in fact this group goes through interviewing all these people,” he said.Biden has said he hopes to pick his running mate around August 1.

Just reading the political zeitgeist, and what Biden has said about what he is looking for, with Klobuchar (who was a clear internal favorite) fully out, it feels like a Biden-Harris ticket is more and more likely every day. It's still the 7th inning, though.

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) June 19, 2020

Amy Klobuchar isn't falling on the sword, she's stabbing Elizabeth Warren in the back with a dagger.

— Brett Banditelli 🚫✂️ (@banditelli) June 19, 2020

Klobuchar casting her announcement as a nod to racial justice — when the writing has been on the wall due to the impunity-promoting & racially unjust decisions she made as a prosecutor — is spin, & it also robs the BLM protests of a big accomplishment: making such records matter.

— Taniel (@Taniel) June 19, 2020

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