Voters overwhelmingly want to see Joe Biden choose a running mate with governing experience, and are far less interested in whether he chooses a woman or a person of color as vice-presidential nominee, a new poll showed.
The Politico/Morning Consult survey released Wednesday showed 66% of voters said it was important Biden choose a running mate with legislative and executive experience. Only 29% said it was important for Biden to choose a woman — as he has vowed to do — while 22% said it was important he choose a person of color.
The poll found about 80% of Democrats said it was important that Biden’s vice-presidential pick have legislative and executive experience. About half said it’s important for the 77-year-old Biden’s running mate to be younger than him, and for his pick to be a woman, Politico reported.
Also, 32% say it’s important Biden pick someone who is “religious;” 31% say it’s important he pick someone who is “more conservative than him;” 25% say it’s important that he pick someone who’s “more liberal than him;” and 14% say it’s important he pick a man.
The survey of 1,990 registered voters was conducted April 10-12 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.