Ryan Daniel Moran predicts Biden will pick Kamala Harris as VP, analyzing why Duckworth or Rice made strategic sense but saying media pressure will win out. He argues the real lesson is about authenticity and the risk of manufactured personas in politics.
This week, Joe Biden is going to announce his vice presidential pick. So I'm gonna predict what's gonna happen. There's really three people who are contenders to be Joe Biden's vice presidential pick. They are Tammy Duckworth, Susan Rice, and the person that he's actually gonna pick. Now let's talk about these first two for a second. Tammy Duckworth. If I'm Joe Biden, I picked Tammy Duckworth. And the reason I picked Tammy Duckworth is because you can't dislike her, you can't pick on her. She's a war veteran who is in a wheelchair, who's a little more soft spoken than some of the other people being considered. She and Biden together create this beautiful contrast to the Trump ticket, which is more soft and welcoming, but still strong and moderate. And so if you want to get the centrists, if you want to really contrast the other ticket, I say you pick Tammy Duckworth. But he won't pick Tammy Duckworth. The next best pick would be Susan Rice. So Susan Rice would be a great contrast to the Trump ticket because Joe and Susan would be a great governing duo. They get along well. They have that Obama, Biden camaraderie. So Susan Rice would be a great compliment. If he wanted to be a governor, if he wanted to position himself as somebody who gets it, somebody who is not on his way out, he would pick Susan Rice. But it's not gonna be Susan Rice. Joe Biden is going to go with the person that he thinks can help him win, which is really being determined by the media right now. There's really only one person that the media is talking about, and that's Kamala Harris. And Kamala Harris was really who the party wanted from the get go and just nobody liked her enough. She was hard and crass and well, she has that background of using government to put people in jail for non violent crimes. Not gonna be real popular right now, but the media loves her and so he's going to pick her and it's gonna look real awkward. You're gonna have the star and you're gonna have the person that you're voting for the and it's gonna be super weird and awkward and everybody's gonna feel real weird about it and they're gonna lose. Now here's the lesson in all of this. If Joe Biden were to own the grandpa role and he were to position himself as America's grandpa, he would have a shot. If he were to pick one of the VP candidates who just owns who they are, they would have a shot, but they're gonna try and fake this ticket. They're gonna try and create a Persona that doesn't work. And it's been my experience as a somewhat Internet personality and also an entrepreneur, that every time you try to. Every time you try to create a Persona in order to be received differently by other people, you don't get the result that you're going for because you create this fake wall between what you really want and how people perceive you. And it becomes really difficult for you to be the person that or create the thing that you want when you are trying to create a Persona on top of it.
