By Fred Hiatt
Washington Post
March 9, 2020
Picking a vice president is always about winning the election. If you lose, it won’t matter who goes down with you.
But for the Democratic nominee this year, good politics matches good governance as never before, because voters’ No. 1 question will be: Is this vice presidential nominee ready to be president?
And if, as seems likely today, former vice president Joe Biden heads the ticket, voters will have a second, related question: Would we want this vice presidential nominee as our standard-bearer in 2024?