I find it puzzling why recent Democrats continue to feel obligated to “diversify their cabinet” with different political voices. Obama did this in 2008 with people like Robert Gates and now Harris is here indicating she wants centrists or conservatives. Biden, to his credit, didn’t play into this as much.

If you won because of primarily Democratic voters supporting you, wouldn’t you want your policy team to represent why they showed up for you? You haven’t heard of Republicans in recent administrations bringing in liberal voices for a devil’s advocate role.