Biden Begins Vetting Possible Running Mates

Joe Biden said that “he will announce a committee to oversee his vice presidential selection process and is already thinking about whom he’d choose to join his Cabinet,” the AP reports.

“Biden, who holds a significant lead in delegates over Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary race but has yet to officially clinch the nomination, also said he’s spoken to Sanders to let him know he’d be proceeding with the vice presidential vetting process.”

“Calling Sanders a ‘friend,’ Biden said, ‘I don’t want him to think I’m being presumptuous’ by choosing a running mate. But he added that the vice presidential vetting process ‘takes time,’ so he has to begin this month.”