SAN ANTONIO A seasoned political observer, Jon Taylor, Ph.D., chair of the UTSA Department of Political Science and Geography, said he wasnt surprised former Vice President Joe Biden asked Sen. Kamala Harris to join him on the Democratic Party ticket in November as his running mate.
"Great pick," Taylor said, for what he called the generational transition of the party.
Biden, Harris make unusual campaign debut in virus eraMuch has been said about Harris confronting Biden during one of the Democratic debates last year.
"In 1960, Johnson and Kennedy, in 1980, Bush and Reagan, for that matter, 2008, Obama-Biden," Taylor said.
How Biden chose Harris: Inside his search for a running mateHe said Biden and Harris already were close friends before that moment on the debate stage, because of his late son, Beau.