[The Hill] Former Vice President Joe Biden vowed on Sunday to choose a woman as his running mate if he wins the Democratic presidential nomination. "I commit that I will, in fact, pick a woman to be vice president," Biden said at a Democratic presidential debate in Washington. "There are a number of women who are qualified to be president tomorrow."
CNN moderator Dana Bash asked Biden again if he was committed to picking a woman after he answered a separate question, and the former vice president replied affirmatively. "Yes," he said.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said he would "in all likelihood" pick a woman as his running mate if he could upset Biden and win the nomination.
Sanders added that more important than choosing a woman as his running mate would be choosing a progressive to run alongside him.
"There are progressive women out there," he said.