2020 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection

Former Vice President Joe Biden announced that he had selected Senator Kamala Harris of California as his running mate on August 11, 2020. Harris is the third woman vice presidential running mate of a major party, the first African American, and the first Asian American. Biden and Harris were both formally nominated at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

About 2020 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection in brief

This article lists potential candidates for the Democratic nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 2020 election. Former Vice President Joe Biden announced that he had selected Senator Kamala Harris of California as his running mate on August 11, 2020. Biden and Harris were both formally nominated at the 2020 Democratic National Convention. Harris is the third woman vice presidential running mate of a major party, the first African American, and the first Asian American. In March 2020, Biden promised to select a woman as hisRunning mate, which would mark the third time in United States history that the vice presidential nominee of amajor party has been a woman, after Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 and Sarah Palin in 2008.

The Biden campaign was reported to have begun the vetting process of potential running mates in May 2020. On June 12, the Associated Press reported that Keisha Lance Bottoms, Val Demings, Kamala. Harris, Michelle Lujan Grisham, Susan Rice, and Elizabeth Warren had advanced to further stages in the vetting. On July 29, just a week before Biden’s initially planned announcement, The Hill reported that Karen Bass, Harris, Rice,. and Warren had emerged as the top tier of candidates. On August 2, CNN reported that Tammy Duckworth and Gretchen Whitmer were still under consideration.