Joe Biden said for the first time during Sunday’s debate that he will “pick a woman to be my vice president” if he’s the Democratic nominee.
“If I’m elected president, my Cabinet, my administration will look like the country, and I committed that I will pick a woman to be my vice president,” Biden said at the CNN face off with Bernie Sanders in Washington, D.C.
“There are a number of women qualified to be president,” he added.
She the People, an influential group of women of color, released an internal poll this past week showing Stacey Abrams and Kamala Harris are the leading Democratic vice-presidential picks among their members.
Biden also said he’d nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court.
Asked if he would also commit to having a female running mate, Sanders didn’t go quite as far, saying that “in all likelihood” he would.
Sanders said his pick would be a fellow progressive. “There are progressive women out there,” he said.
