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you will get 5% off. Please do so. I'm joined today by Dave Beigle, who covers politics for the Washington Post,

and we're going to be asking who will be Joe Biden's vice presidential pick. Now, Dave,

it's quite hard to think about any political stories at the moment with all the coronavirus

crisis and the madness around it. But I do think this is probably

one of the most important political questions of the moment, which is not perhaps being asked as

much as one would normally expect it to be asked at this time in a presidential election cycle,

chiefly because Joe Biden is 77, he'll be 78 by the time he enters the Oval Office if he wins

the election in November. And as he himself has conceded, there's a pretty good chance he won't make it.

So therefore, the next vice president, the next Democratic vice president, if Biden wins,

is very likely to be president. Is that a fair assessment?

That's fair. That's something grim that

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