A major party’s presidential nominee has chosen a primary opponent as a running mate just three times in the past 40 years.
As the battle to become the Democrats’ presidential nominee rages on, why aren’t more of the lower-tier contenders dropping out?
When it comes to becoming the eventual vice presidential nominee, the Democratic contenders probably shouldn’t get optimistic. It’s rare for a major party’s presidential nominee to choose a primary opponent as a running mate. In the three instances in the last four decades when a presidential nominee selected a primary opponent for his VP, he had to get over what had been said during the primary campaign. Bush had famously blasted Reagan’s “voodoo economic policies,” Edwards had criticized Kerry as a Washington insider who had backed bad trade deals, and Biden had drawn flak for describing Obama as the “first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.
Beyond angling to become veep, some 2020 Democrats are aiming to build a donor network for future races, including for president or Senate, said Larry Jacobs, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for the Study of Politics and Governance. They’re also trying to position themselves for a cabinet job, congressional leadership or a judicial nomination, as well as aim for talk-show appearances and book contracts, according to Jacobs.
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