ニューヨーク・タイムズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク・タイムズInstagram)「Joe Biden's selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate shows that demographics, not geography, is now the determinant factor in vice-presidential politics. By picking Harris, the junior senator from California, a state that Democrats have captured in every presidential election since 1992, Biden embraced the modern imperatives of Democratic coalition building that have made the days of choosing running mates who could deliver their home states a relic of the past. Harris, who is half Black and half Indian-American, is not expected to scramble the electoral map, nor was the Biden campaign looking to do so. The former vice president leads in polls of most of the crucial battlegrounds. Instead, ever since Black voters resurrected his primary candidacy in South Carolina, Biden and his campaign team have made the pursuit of Black voters in November a centerpiece of his bid for the White House. And he had said from the start of the process that he would choose a woman as his running mate. “Geography died a long time ago as a decisive factor,” a top Biden adviser said of running mates in presidential elections. Tap the links in our bio to read complete coverage of the @kamalaharris and @joebiden ticket. Photo by @maddiemcgarvey taken in 2019 on a campaign bus in Iowa.」8月13日 1時02分