I’m just telling you what the realities are. This has been SOP procedure in picking VP candidates since the Federalist Period in the early 1800s. Balancing the ticket nowadays has less to do with regions. It is now playing the diversity game in balancing the ticket. Look, I abhor this BS as much as you but the VP will be black or female.
“I’m just telling you what the realities are.”
In politics, perception, rather than principle, is reality. If race pandering, as a pathway to success, is your perception, then that is your reality.
But that doesn’t make it correct, and that is counter to national survival.
We had a black president for eight years, and the racism industry has only gotten more venomous.