**JULY 13, 2020**

Kuttner on TAP

Elizabeth Warren and the Biden Veepstakes

On Friday morning, we published my piece on Joe Biden's surprisingly
good Made in America plan . I could not help noticing that
it looked a lot like Elizabeth Warren's Economic Patriotism plan of a
year ago. And though I had no official confirmation, I wrote that Warren
must have had something to do with Biden's plan.

On Friday afternoon, both Biden and Warren confirmed her involvement
.
Biden wrote a letter to the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a PAC
close to Warren, crediting her role. And then Warren, in a CNN interview
later on Friday complimented Biden and his economic team, and
acknowledged her own involvement.

Well, well. There are lots of ways to interpret this. One is that Biden
is taking full advantage of Warren to send signals to reassure the
grassroots left. Another is that Warren is truly playing a major
substantive role.

Either way, one must conclude that despite the drumbeat that Biden has
to name a Black running mate, Warren is still very much in it. In a
recent piece for Slate
,
Julia Craven, who is African American, wrote that Warren is the best
candidate for VP to advance a racial justice agenda. Jamelle Bouie has
made similar arguments in the Times
.  

In the media handicapping of the veepstakes, there seems to be a new
favorite hyped every few days. The latest is Tammy Duckworth
.  But
if you read below the headline, there is no real information, only
promotion by the contender's handlers.

Only Biden, of course, knows who he will pick; and he doesn't know
yet. But through it all, the energizer bunny continues to be Elizabeth
Warren.

~ ROBERT KUTTNER

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