在他的第一次采访中民主党总统候选人，前副总统乔·拜登讨论了他选择有色人种女性作为竞选伙伴的动机。
"你有没有感到选择黑人女性的压力?"《早安美国》的联合主持人罗宾·罗伯茨周五在特拉华州威尔明顿接受独家采访时问道。
拜登说:“不，我没有感到选择黑人女性的压力。”他后来补充说，“政府应该像人民，像国家。”这个国家百分之五十一的人是女性。俗话说，“女人能顶半边天”，要想成功，你必须全面参与。”
2020年8月21日，《早安美国》联合主持人罗宾·罗伯茨与民主党总统候选人乔·拜登和他的竞选伙伴参议员卡马拉·哈里斯进行了一次联合采访。
拜登在与罗伯茨一起进行的采访中分享了他的思考过程卡马拉·哈里斯参议员拜登的竞选伙伴，也是主要政党总统候选人中的第一位黑人女性和第一位南亚女性。
拜登说，尽管两人来自不同的背景，有着截然不同的经历，但他们在原则上是一致的。
他说:“我不能理解，也不能完全理解，作为一个有着印第安人背景的非洲裔美国妇女，一个移民的孩子，站在她的立场上意味着什么。”“她不能想象穿我的鞋子走路是什么样子。我们所知道的是，我们拥有相同的价值观。”
拜登说，在选拔过程中，与其他被考虑的女性相比，哈里斯“最接近也是最好的。”
他描述了自己对哈里斯作为加州司法部长处理与大银行的抵押贷款和解谈判的钦佩。2012年，该交易为受止赎危机影响的加州房主获得了250亿美元的和解。也是在这些谈判中，哈里斯与拜登已故的儿子、当时的特拉华州司法部长博·拜登建立了密切的关系。
“她是个不可思议的女人。...在司法委员会，我曾经担任主席多年，我看到她只是坚持要得到答案，并没有软化，直到她得到答案。”“所以我只是-只是似乎适合。”
Biden to ABC's Robin Roberts: 'I didn't feel pressure to select a Black woman' as running mate
In his first interview as theDemocratic presidential nominee, former Vice PresidentJoe Bidendiscussed his motives for choosing a woman of color as his running mate.
“Did you feel pressure to select a Black woman?” asked "Good Morning America" co-anchor Robin Roberts in an exclusive interview Friday in Wilmington, Delaware.
“No, I didn't feel pressure to select a Black woman,” Biden said. He later added, “the government should look like the people, look like the country. Fifty-one percent of the people in this country are women. As that old expression goes, ‘women hold up half the sky,’ and in order to be able to succeed, you've got to be dealt in across the board.”
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"Good Morning America" co-anchor Robin Roberts conducts a joint interview with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, Aug. 21, 2020.
Biden shared his thought process in an interview with Roberts conducted alongsideSen. Kamala Harris, Biden's running mate and the first Black woman and first South Asian woman on a major party's presidential ticket.
Biden said that although the two come from different backgrounds with vastly different experiences, the pair are aligned on principles.
“I cannot understand and fully appreciate what it means to walk in her shoes, to be an African-American woman, with Indian-American background, a child of immigrants,” he said. “She can’t assume exactly what it's like to walk in my shoes. What we do know is we have the same value set.”
Biden said that in the course of the selection process, Harris “fit the closest and the best,” in comparison to other women under consideration.
He described his admiration for Harris’ handling of mortgage settlement negotiations with big banks as California’s attorney general. In 2012, the deal garnered a $25 billion settlement for California homeowners impacted by the foreclosure crisis. It was also during those negotiations that Harris forged a close relationship with Biden’s late son Beau Biden, then-attorney general of Delaware.
“She's an incredible woman. ... On the Judiciary Committee, which I used to chair for years, I watched her just insist on getting the answers, and not relented until she got the answers,” he said. “And so I just -- it just seemed to fit.”
