Election Watch | The Vice-Presidential Sweepstakes

Next month, Joe Biden will choose his running mate, the presumptive Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate. Biden has pledged that his running mate will be a woman but committed to little beyond that. The last female major party vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, became a media phenomenon unto herself and helped usher in the Tea Party movement to prominence. No presidential ticket with a woman on it has ever been elected in the United States. With Joe Biden as the oldest presidential candidate in history, the stakes for vice president have never been higher.

Who are the Biden campaign’s top choices for vice president? Will Biden use his choice to energise Democratic Party progressives or to maintain his campaign theme of being a moderate, centrist candidate? Or will history be made in 2020, with a woman elected as vice president of the United States?

To discuss these issues, USSC hosted a webinar event featuring Dr Jennifer Lawless, the Commonwealth Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia; Kim Hoggard, former senior official in the Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush administrations; and USSC CEO Professor Simon Jackman in a conversation moderated by former ABC Washington Bureau Chief Zoe Daniel.

Видео Election Watch | The Vice-Presidential Sweepstakes канала United States Studies Centre