January 28, 2020 by Lars Emerson
As part of our Running Mates project, The Postrider is presenting its 2020 Vice Presidential Tracker for the Democratic primary. With Joe Biden as the presumptive nominee, his strongest choices are listed on the right, but you can use this tool to pick a nominee out of all the major candidates who ran and determine their strongest vice presidential candidates. You can read about the methodology and sources for the tracker here.
Last update: September 17, 2020
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YangBiden’s Top Picks
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Kamala Harris
Senator from California |
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John Hickenlooper
Former Governor of Colorado |
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Doug Jones
Senator from Alabama |
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Beto O’Rourke
Former Representative from Texas |
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Tammy Duckworth
Senator from Illinois |
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Hillary Clinton
Former Secretary of State |
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Julian Castro
Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
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Stacey Abrams
Former Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives |
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Michael Bennet
Senator from Colorado |
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Bob Casey Jr.
Senator from Pennsylvania |
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Catherine Cortez Masto
Senator from Nevada |
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Sherrod Brown
Senator from Ohio |
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Senator from New York |
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Amy Klobuchar
Senator from Minnesota |
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Cory Booker
Senator from New Jersey |
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Tammy Baldwin
Senator from Wisconsin |
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Pete Buttigieg
Mayor of South Bend, Indiana |
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Martin Heinrich
Senator from New Mexico |
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Jon Stewart
Comedian, Activist |
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Howard Schultz
Former CEO of Starbucks |
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Angus King
Senator from Maine |
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Roy Cooper
Governor of North Carolina |
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Deval Patrick
Former Governor of Massachusetts |
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Tim Ryan
Representative from Ohio |
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Tom Vilsack
Former Secretary of Agriculture, former Governor of Iowa |
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Tulsi Gabbard
Representative from Hawaii |
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Kyrsten Sinema
Senator from Arizona |
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Mark Warner
Senator from Virginia |
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Mazie Hirono
Senator from Hawaii |
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Jon Tester
Senator from Montana |
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Steve Bullock
Governor of Montana |
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Ben Ray Lujan
Representative from New Mexico |
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Tim Kaine
Senator from Virginia |
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John Allen
US Marine Corps four-star general |
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Bill de Blasio
Mayor of New York City |
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Jeff Merkley
Senator from Oregon |
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Elizabeth Warren
Senator from Massachusetts |
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Chris Murphy
Senator from Connecticut |
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Jeanne Shaheen
Senator from New Hampshire |
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Maggie Hassan
Senator from New Hampshire |
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Debbie Stabenow
Senator from Michigan |
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Joe Kennedy III
Representative from Massachusetts |
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Seth Moulton
Representative from Massachusetts |
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Eric Holder
Former Attorney General |
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Ken Salazar
Former Secretary of the Interior, former Senator from Colorado |
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Jay Inslee
Governor of Washington |
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Kate Brown
Governor of Oregon |
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Terry McAuliffe
Former Governor of Virginia |
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Eric Garcetti
Mayor of Los Angeles |
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Andrew Gillum
Former Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida |
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Michael Bloomberg
Former Mayor of New York City |
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James Stavridis
Former Navy admiral |
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Michelle Lujan Grisham
Governor of New Mexico |
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Val Demings
Representative from Florida |
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Gretchen Whitmer
Governor of Michigan |
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Janet Napolitano
Former Secretary of Homeland Security, former Governor of Arizona |
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Susan Rice
Former National Security Advisor |