Jason Johnson, a political scientist at Morgan State University.

He's got this problem with Joe Biden.

He says, Joe, can't keep a secret.

Joe Biden is your friend who's still in the driveway with a handful of balloons when you're bringing your wife up for her surprise party.

It's like, geez, dude.

He's just wrecked it for everybody.

Over the last year, Jason says one of the biggest secrets Biden just couldn't keep to himself

was his presidential running mate. We all know who that is now. But Jason says he was sure it would be Kamala Harris months ago.

I'm going to read you something you wrote back at the beginning of July. You said Kamala Harris is going

to be Joe Biden's vice president. We can debate the merits of that pending decision, just like you

can debate the sunrise, but it's going to

happen either way. What made you so sure? Because Joe Biden talked himself into a corner about a

year ago, and he didn't have many options. Joe Biden let the cat out of the bag last year. He didn't

just say, hey, I'm going to pick a woman VP. He's like,

I'm going to pick a woman VP. And then the first names he started rattling off for like Stacey Abrams,

Michelle Obama, all these black women. And his campaign did absolutely nothing. I know because I was in

pretty constant contact with him. They did nothing to dispel the rumor and then eventually the belief that Joe Biden was going to pick a black woman.

And so once you say, I'm going to pick a black woman as my VP, you automatically narrowed down the list to about three, maybe four people.

But it's funny you say that because when you wrote that, it was a time when all sorts of other names were being floated.

We were talking about Susan Rice, we were talking about Karen Bass and Val Demings.

Did you just look at those folks and just say, there's no way?

So all these other names, they were tossing them out because they're like,

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