About that private flight today from South Bend to Delaware…

| 7:00 pm EDT August 10, 2020
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Heads turned last week when Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer flew into Delaware to meet in person with Joe Biden. Some observers presumed that the meeting was about Whitmer being Biden’s running mate. Palmer Report pointed out that the meeting could just as easily have been about a cabinet position, and that Biden would probably be meeting with plenty of people for similar reasons this week.

Now it turns out a private flight out of South Bend, Indiana has just landed in Wilmington, Delaware. This has led a lot of people to ask if this is perhaps Pete Buttigieg traveling to meet with Joe Biden. That’s possible; we’ll see. But Biden has already made 100% clear that his running mate is a woman. So if Biden is indeed meeting with Pete today, it’s likely about some kind of cabinet position.

If this is the case, it won’t come as a surprise. Joe Biden publicly confirmed back in March that Pete Buttigieg would play an unspecified role in his administration. In any case, the potential meeting between Biden and Buttigieg today is a reminder that there are a whole lot of moving parts in play right now that go beyond just Biden’s running mate selection.