Biden has two premium choices for Veep:
1) Klobuchar
2) Warren
He goes with Klobuchar if he wants to double down on the Midwest. I don’t think much of it myself.
To paraphrase Kos, and I’d put this on my FB page a few days ago, if you’re Biden looking at the political chessboard, the biggest problem he has is getting as much of the Progressive side of the Democratic on board. The Bernie dead-enders will never come, self-privileging assholes that they are, but you want the others to be as enthusiastic as possible. As an exponent of policy, Warren is as close to Bernie as you’re going to get for a Biden pick.
Biden endorsed Warren’s bankruptcy plan a few days ago, removing a major impediment to them working together. That sent a message to Warren.
Just as Warren not endorsing Bernie or Biden also sent a message, something like: I’m not going down on a sinking ship but I’m not endorsing you because I want to bring as many Progressives with me when the time comes.
In high-level politics it’s possible for two people to have a conversation without ever exchanging a word.
The day that Biden endorsed Biden, he also said something else: that he was looking to put a Black woman on the Supreme Court. Now that’s interesting. He didn’t have to say that. So, why? Reaching out to an important part of his base. And something he wouldn’t have to have said if he were already considering, say, Kamala Harris, for the Veep spot. (Harris for the SC spot? Plausible. Michelle Obama, implausible.)
I don’t know that Biden is going to pick Warren though I predicted it a few days ago based upon the preceding logic. But looking at the political chessboard, I don’t see a *better* move.
The issue of the Massachusetts Senate seat is short term at worst. At worst, there’s an election is 145-160 days after the vacancy occurs and it will be so nationalized in the current environment that I’m not worried about the Dems holding the seat.
The notion of there being a regional problem, two from the Northeast, would have played out in the 1960’s when regionalism was stronger but Clinton chose Gore in 1992. Whereas I thought Kaine was a perfectly insipid pick by Hillary. Biden by Obama wasn’t based upon regional considerations either.
As for age, I suspect that Warren is in the better health than Trump, Sanders, or Biden and she’s several years younger than any of them. Yeah, I could wish that she were in her 60’s but you go to an election with the candidates you have.