The former Vice President and his team are currently extensively vetting candidates to be his running mate, however, a number of Democrats are certain that he’ll end up picking, Kamala Harris. 

 “It just makes the most sense,” according to one long-time ally to Biden who is frequently in touch with the campaign. “When you really give it some thought, and you hear him talk about what he’s looking for in a running mate, she’s the one that checks all the boxes.”

The California Senator is perceived as president in waiting, which is desirable when the presumptive presidential candidate would turn 80 while in office. She’s from an important Democratic state, would be the first Indian-American as well as African American woman to be a vice-presidential candidate on the Democratic ticket, and is neither too liberal nor too centrist to engender anger with either side of the Democratic Party.

Joel Payne renowned democratic strategist calls her a natural choice to represent generational change. 

“She is also the type of top tier surrogate who could boost the Biden ticket from day one and deliver a powerful case against Donald Trump,” he said. 

The main rival to Harris, maybe Senator Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts, another former presidential candidate. 

According to a recent CBS News poll last week, 36 percent of respondents want Warren to be Biden’s pick, with 19 percent for Harris. 

Warren could help Biden with exciting progressives about his candidacy. 

But Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University says that “guesstimates are often wrong.” 

“The VP pick is always a huge guessing game and rarely do the predictions line up with who wins the pick,” he said. “There are surges of interest in certain candidates, either because they fill the weaknesses of the nominee, at least on paper, and they are exciting figures in the world of politics, or just have the media buzz.

Zelizer did add however, “in any campaign let alone one this unstable, these picks are flimsy and can be changed at the last moment.”