Progressives said that selecting Harris shows that Biden is likely to govern as a moderate, despite his recent efforts to win over former Sanders voters, including by creating “unity” task forces with the Vermont senator.
“The fact that Warren and Sanders weren’t seriously considered reflects something about Joe Biden,” Bhaskar Sunkara, founder of the socialist magazine Jacobin and a former vice chairman of Democratic Socialists of America, said of Biden’s running mate selection process. “It shows that Joe Biden is going to run as Joe Biden and not pivot in any serious way to the left.”