Susan Rice Would Say Yes If Asked to Be Joe Biden’s Running Mate

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The White House plans to replenish and redesign the nation’s strategic stockpile of critical supplies to make the country less vulnerable to future catastrophic events, three administration officials told reporters in a conference call Thursday. A key concept behind what is being billed as the Strategic National Stockpile 2.0 is to build up a 90-day buffer of key supplies and source more of the manufacturing in America, imbuing the system with “surge capacity” to make it possible to quickly ramp up production in the face of future cataclysmic events. Shortages of critical supplies like N95 masks and ventilators in the face of the outbreak of COVID-19, the disease caused by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus, has exposed the vulnerabilities of outsourcing key supply chains.…

Former national security adviser Susan Rice said she’d accept an offer to be presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s running mate.

Biden, 77, has said he’ll choose a younger woman as his 2020 partner.

Rice, 55, who served in the Obama administration, fits the bill.

Asked by a PBS reporter during a video interview Thursday whether she’d accept an offer to be Biden’s running mate, Rice said yes.

“Should I say no?” Rice said. “You know, I think everybody who’s been asked that question has given the same answer. So that’s not a surprise.”

Then-Vice President Joe Biden (L) and then-National Security Advisor Susan Rice talk as then-President Barack Obama and then-Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi brief the press after a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on April 14, 2015. (Mike Theiler/Getty Images)

“I’m humbled and honored to be among the extremely accomplished women who are reportedly being considered in that regard,” she added.

Rice, a vociferous critic of Republican President Donald Trump, knows Biden well, having worked with him closely. He’d be a great president, she said.

“From my vantage point, I’m committed to doing all I can to help him win and to help him govern. So I will do as I best can in whatever capacity makes most sense,” she said.

Rice said she is not campaigning for the position, or any other.

Other potential Biden running mates include Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

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Missouri Moving Ahead With Execution Plans

O’FALLON, Mo.—Missouri is moving ahead with plans to execute a man next week, despite new concerns about key evidence that led to his conviction, and despite concerns about the CCP virus that prompted other states to postpone lethal injections. Walter Barton, 64, is scheduled to die by injection on May 19 for killing 81-year-old trailer park operator Gladys Kuehler in 1991. She was beaten, sexually assaulted, and stabbed more than 50 times in the town of Ozark, near Springfield. The execution would be the first in the United States since March 5. Three jurors involved in Barton’s 2006 trial now express misgivings, based on new blood spatter evidence, Barton’s attorney, Fred Duchardt Jr., said Wednesday. The NAACP and Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty submitted more than 5,000 petition…