预计将获得民主党总统候选人提名的乔·拜登计划在5月1日前宣布将帮助他选择副总统竞选伙伴的委员会成员，但选民们已经在权衡他们的观点。
新投票作者:YouGov和《经济学人》该调查于4月26日至28日进行，发现民主党选民在几名潜在的副总统候选人之间产生分歧。然而，马萨诸塞州的进步参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦，之前曾竞选民主党总统候选人提名，领先超过四分之一的民主党选民认为她是拜登的最佳选择。
沃伦得到了26%的民主党受访者的支持，而拜登的另一位民主党提名竞争对手、加州参议员卡马拉·哈里斯(Kamala Harris)获得了该党18%选民的支持，位居第二。Stacey Abrams在2018年竞选佐治亚州州长失败后，以12%的得票率排在第三位，而明尼苏达州的参议员艾米·克洛布查尔也曾寻求民主党总统候选人提名，以11%的得票率排在第四位。
3月12日，民主党总统候选人乔·拜登在特拉华州威尔明顿的杜邦酒店发表了关于冠状病毒爆发的评论。拜登承诺选择一名女性作为他的竞选搭档。
密歇根州长格雷琴·惠特莫得到了3%的民主党选民的支持，而威斯康辛州的参议员塔米·鲍德温得到了2%的支持。参与投票的所有议员都支持拜登，并被广泛猜测正在考虑加入前副总统的竞选。拜登此前承诺选择一个女人做他的竞选搭档。
新闻周刊已经联系了拜登竞选团队进行评论。
YouGov/经济学家调查还调查了共和党人和无党派人士对拜登应该选择谁加入他的阵营的偏好。当他们的观点和民主党人一起被考虑时，沃伦仍然是领先者。15%的选民认为沃伦应该成为拜登的竞选伙伴，哈里斯以9%的支持率排在第二，亚伯拉罕以8%的支持率排在第三。
民调还发现，拜登总体上比唐纳德·特朗普总统得到更多选民的支持。尽管两位候选人都没有得到明显多数的受访者支持，但拜登得到了47%的支持，特朗普只得到41%的支持。此外，6%的选民说他们不确定，而4%的人说他们会投票给另一个候选人，2%的人说他们不会投票。
数据促进进步组织此前的一项调查发现，沃伦将是团结民主党的最佳竞选伙伴。大多数(61%)支持佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯成为民主党总统候选人的进步选民说，如果拜登选择沃伦作为副总统候选人，他们更有可能投票给拜登。哈里斯位居第二，42%的桑德斯支持者表示，她会让他们更有可能支持拜登。
2月7日，伊丽莎白·沃伦参议员和前副总统乔·拜登在新罕布什尔州曼彻斯特圣安瑟姆学院的沙利文竞技场参加民主党总统初选辩论。沃伦已经成为民主党选民中的领先者，成为拜登的竞选伙伴。
就沃伦而言，她曾公开表示，她会很乐意与拜登并肩作战。
“是的，”这位来自马萨诸塞州的参议员自信地回答道，当她被直接问及MSNBC是否愿意加入拜登的竞选时。
“我们都想要同样的东西。我们希望这个国家能够运转，我们希望它能为每个人服务，”沃伦补充道。
“他是一个心地善良的人，这就是我们需要的一个领导者——一个稳重、有准备、但最终不仅关心自己，而且关心其他人的人，”她说。
HERE'S WHO VOTERS THINK JOE BIDEN SHOULD PICK AS HIS VICE PRESIDENT
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden plans to announce the members of the committee that will help him select his vice presidential running mate by May 1, but voters are already weighing in with their perspective.
New polling by YouGov and The Economist, which was conducted from April 26 to 28, found that Democratic voters are split between several potential vice presidential candidates. However, progressive Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who previously was running for the Democratic presidential nomination, leads the pack with more than a quarter of Democratic voters seeing her as the best choice for Biden.
Warren was backed by 26 percent of Democratic respondents, while Biden's other former rival for the Democratic nomination, Senator Kamala Harris of California, came in second with support from 18 percent of the party's voters. Stacey Abrams, who ran unsuccessfully to become Georgia's governor in 2018, came in third with 12 percent, and Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who also previously sought the Democratic presidential nomination, came in fourth with 11 percent.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden delivers remarks about the coronavirus outbreak at the Hotel Du Pont on March 12 in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden has committed to selecting a woman to be his running mate.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was backed by 3 percent of Democratic voters, while Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin was supported by 2 percent. All of the lawmakers included in the poll have endorsed Biden and have been widely speculated to be under consideration to join the former vice president's ticket. Biden has previously committed to selecting a woman to be his running mate.
Newsweek has reached out to the Biden campaign for comment.
The YouGov/Economist survey also polled Republicans and independents about their preference for who Biden should select to join his ticket. When their viewpoints were considered along with Democrats, Warren still came out as the front-runner. Fifteen percent of all voters said Warren should be Biden's running mate, while Harris came in second with support from 9 percent, and Abrams was third with 8 percent.
The polling also found that Biden was supported by more voters overall than President Donald Trump. Although neither candidate was backed by a clear majority of respondents, Biden was supported by 47 percent and Trump was supported by just 41 percent. Additionally, 6 percent of voters said they were not sure, while 4 percent said they'd vote for another candidate and 2 percent said they would not vote.
A previous survey by Data for Progress found that Warren would be the best running mate to unite the Democratic Party. The majority (61 percent) of progressive voters who backed Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont to be the Democratic presidential nominee said that they were more likely to vote for Biden if he selected Warren as his vice presidential candidate. Harris came in second, with 42 percent of Sanders supporters saying she'd make it more likely for them to support Biden.
Senator Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden participate in the Democratic presidential primary debate in the Sullivan Arena at St. Anselm College on February 7 in Manchester, New Hampshire. Warren has emerged as the front-runner among Democratic voters to be Biden's running mate.JOE RAEDLE/GETTY
For her part, Warren has said publicly that she would gladly run alongside Biden.
"Yes," the senator from Massachusetts responded confidently when she was asked directly on MSNBC whether she'd be willing to join Biden's ticket.
"We both want the same thing. We want this country to work, and we want it to work for everyone," Warren added.
"He's a man who has a good heart, and that's what we need in a leader—someone who is steady, who is prepared, but ultimately who cares not just about himself, but cares about everyone else," she said.
