Hillary Clinton hasn't locked up the Democratic nomination yet, but rumors are swirling already about her possible vice presidential pick. And one of the names that's floating out there, at least among some in the local punditry class, is that of Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed.
A local television crew on Wednesday asked the two-term Atlanta mayor, who appeared with Clinton at a campaign event last week, whether he's been approached. He answered it the way virtually any politician would:
I don't think any American can sit and watch what is going on in our national discourse and not want to get involved on one side or the other. We will hash it out and pick a president. I haven't been asked to be considered for the vice presidency. I don't know anything about that. The only thing I'm focused on is being mayor.
Recall, too, that Sen. David Perdue has answered similar questions about the possibility of being a running mate.
Reed also told our AJC colleague Scott Trubey that Democrats should count on Donald Trump to be the GOP nominee.
"I expect Mr. Trump to be the nominee unless they engineer a way to take the nomination from him. He's either going to be the nominee or there are going to be a lot of people who voted for him that are going to have a lot of frustration because to avoid him being the nominee they are going to have to engineer a way to prevent him from getting it."
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