House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn said Saturday that he had privately urged <a href=”https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/07/politics/joe-biden-wins-us-presidential-election/index.html” target=”_blank”>President-elect Joe Biden</a> to pick a Black woman as his running mate before Biden chose <a href=”https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/07/politics/kamala-harris-first-vice-president-female-black-south-asian/index.html” target=”_blank”>Kamala Harris</a>, America’s first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president-elect.

“Joe and I talked about it