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Election 2000: Gore Expected To Announce Running Mate Next Week

Aired August 3, 2000 - 11:12 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Ever since George Bush picked Dick Cheney as his running mate, inquiring minds have really been wondering who will Al Gore to be his running mate. The vice president has been vacationing along the North Carolina coast.

That's also where we find our Chris Black.

Chris, good morning.

CHRIS BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: (OFF-MIKE) president arrived here just a week ago to spend some time on the Figure Eight Island, which you can see just over my shoulder, to take a break from the campaign trail, spend some time with his family and, in his words, mull over his choices for vice president.

Well, the vice president has reportedly cut down the list. There's a list of six names being circulated today that campaign is standing by as an accurate reflection of the vice president's thinking this week. Those six names include Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, Governor Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Democratic leader Dick Gephardt of Missouri, and John Edwards of North Carolina.

Now, the sources close to the campaign say that the final vetting process will probably focus on half of that number, three names. The names we're hearing most are Shaheen, Kerry and Edwards. But today I understand from sources close to Jeanne Shaheen that she will take herself out of contention.

KAGAN: Any reason why, Chris?

BLACK: Well, Jeanne Shaheen just is at a different place right now. She's got a lot of big issues she's dealing with in New Hampshire, particularly school funding, and apparently she'd just as soon stay home and deal with those issues right now.

KAGAN: Any spin on how Gore's selection might be affected by the selection of Dick Cheney?

BLACK: Well, it was affected in a couple of ways. One is that every Democrat I've spoken to and every campaign source says that the selection of Cheney really liberated Al Gore to pick the person he wanted, that he didn't have to match it because he didn't have to pick someone who would bring experience to the ticket that Al Gore already has.

The second thing -- and this is the biggest clue that the Gore campaign has dropped since the selection of Cheney -- is that they have been relentlessly harping on the fact that the Bush-Cheney ticket represents the old guard. Now, this suggests that Al Gore will pick someone who reinforces the idea of future, of generational change. All of the names being mentioned today do meet that qualification.

Though I must tell you, Daryn, it's a lot easier for those of us who are gaming this process to cross names off the list. I have been told, in fact, by a number of sources that Evan Bayh, even though he's a very attractive senator from Indiana and a former governor, is disqualified by the fact that he supported the ban on partial-birth abortion, and also supported some restrictions on abortion rights when he was governor of Indiana.

Now, abortion rights activists who I've spoken to have told Al Gore and his representatives that it would be much more difficult for them to activate their constituency if Bayh was on the ticket.

KAGAN: Interesting way of doing it, by taking them off instead of trying to put them on.

BLACK: Process of elimination.

KAGAN: Quickly, before we let you leave, when do you think we'll hear? Before the convention?

BLACK: Definitely. The vice president is planning to make an official announcement in his native state of Tennessee on Tuesday. So if not before, we'll definitely get it then.

KAGAN: All right, we'll be checking in. Chris Black, North Carolina, thank you very much.

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