complementary in some way of the president. does it affirm something? 1992, bill clinton picks al gore, another young son of the new south. in picking sherrod brown, i think hillary clinton would say this is a serious ticket aimed at governing. this is someone who has spent time in the house, in the senate, who has these relationships. it would also be a little sop to the left. because sherrod brown is someone that the left really admires. it is just a really complicated calculus in terms of what they are pricing today in terms of what they will prize in the day they make the pick. that makes it hard to predict who they wind up picking, but also totally fascinating. host: ohio has been called the swingiest of the swing states. it is a pivotal state for both democrats and republicans. it is where the republican convention will be in july. governor kasich is a republican, and the senate republican leader

harry reid has made it clear that he does not want to see somebody selected from a state that would result in the senate losing a democratic seat. mr. cilizza: you just outlined the strongest argument against picking sherrod brown. john kasich would be able to pick a republican to fill that term until another scheduled election. that would complicate the map for democrats. hoping to retake the senate majority. again, sometimes, what the white house or the candidate running for the white house and what the senators in that person's own party want run in cross purposes. that does happen. i don't think it rules sherrod brown out, but it is clearly, if you were picking, it is the first argument you hear from people on why not sherrod brown. host: what is the first argument for "running for vice president?" how do these names and these candidates and these individuals go about the next couple weeks? mr. cilizza: it is like fight club. the first rule is you don't talk

about it. the more you campaign to be vice president, the less seemly that is generally regarded. i think what you see, and this runs the gamut from sherrod brown to elizabeth warren to julian castro to tim kaine. many of the people mentioned on the democratic side. you want to stay enough in the news so that you're not forgotten, but not so much in the news that it looks like you are needing to be picked to be vice president. it is a very delicate balance. you don't want to be forgotten. you also don't want to look like you want it too much. host: i am not going to ask you that you think hillary clinton will pick and i am going to ask you about the timing. when do you think we will know? mr. cilizza: the republican convention is a week before the democratic convention. trump has said he will not

announce his pick until the convention. of course, it is trump. he may change that tomorrow. if he does that, my guess is hillary clinton will wait until the republican convention is over and then announce her pick in the run-up to the democratic convention. those few days before the convention opens on wednesday or thursday and the adelphia. it is -- wednesday or thursday in philadelphia. it is possible she does something different and announces it two or three weeks early. but i think you run the risk of trump having this convention that will be decidedly unorthodox and very watchable, getting drowned out if you don't have a new thing for your convention. so i think a lot of it depends on what donald trump does. the hardest thing for anyone watching is predicting what donald trump will do. host: with that background, chris cillizza, his work available online at washington post.com, thank you very much for being with us. in march, senator sherrod brown introducing hillary clinton. we will show you his remarks in how he referenced the democratic candidate.

>> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage u.s. senator sherrod brown. [applause]

senator brown: thank you, ohio democrats. thank you, joyce, cedric, and sheila. thank you for joining us from the congressional black caucus. special shoutout to the stokes family. lou was a mentor to so many of us that came to congress, and we always will remember the tone he set and the gentleness that he brought to his job, always the commitment to justice. i like these dinners because i got to sit with my wife, connie, and my daughter, columbus city councilwoman elizabeth brown. elizabeth showed me pictures of our 5-month-old granddaughter. the first time she sat up was yesterday. the reason i bring that up is, she doesn't really send pictures very often to their daughter's grandfather. maybe she will start doing that more since i'm saying it in front of 3000 people. [laughter] senator brown: to ted strickland -- i know something about this, because i know what the forces of darkness did in 2012 in my race when they spent $40 million, setting a record of any senate race in the country in negative ads. they've already, and this is only march, spent $10 million, the koch brothers and their allies, against ted strickland, yet he still leads in the polls over rob portman, which tells us everything.

[applause]] senator brown: and to my friends and our democratic candidates, hillary and bernie, welcome to the most important state in the union this tuesday and the most important state in the union in the first tuesday after the first monday of november. some years ago, a guy from connecticut said to me, we are sick and tired of every four years there's a race for the president of ohio. so there is, and again, ohio will win for democrats in november. [applause]] brown: thank you to bernie and hillary for running a race that makes democrats proud, a race about issues, a race about principles, of course gradethe republican school fight and then watch the

two adults talk issues and about the future of the country. also look at the difference, while republicans are busy trying to disown their front runner, or actually disown their two front runners, democrats are proud of both of ours. thank you to david pepper. i saw his mother here, who i know is so proud of her son. thank you to david pepper, thank us for putting in front of those volunteers and employees of odp. i know how hard they work. i see them a lot. i know what they did in 2012 and 2014. it is incredible, the energy these young and sometimes not so young staff and volunteers bring to the table. and special thanks to the wait staff. [applause]

senator brown: as progressive democrats, we always honor hourly wage earners, especially when waitstaff is paid so much less than they should be. [applause] now, if you visit my office in washington, you will see a sign under my name. you will see a sign that says, this senate office was occupied by barack h. obama from 2005 to 2008. so all these people come by and i'd like to think they came by to take a picture of my sign, but i think they didn't. but it is a privilege to serve in the office of the senator from illinois in those years. it is also such an honor to serve with the first african-american president of

the united states. [applause] senator brown: now, you've watched these republican debates. it is a little bit like watching a car accident. you kind of rubberneck and watch these debates and can't believe you are really wasting your time doing it, but just listen to the tone. listen to what they say, but most importantly, look back to january 2009, think about where we were in january 2009. our economy was in freefall. we were losing hundreds of thousands of jobs a month. the day barack obama put his right hand up, we lost 800,000 jobs that month. in the next month, it wasn't much better. the auto industry was on the verge of collapse. the zip code my wife and i live in in cleveland, that zip code in 2007 had more foreclosures thing and any zip code in the

united states of america if you can believe it. in cleveland, ohio. think of where we were, but after the auto rescue and the recovery act and as we did dodd- frank and the affordable care act, we've had 72 straight months of private-sector job growth, 14 million new private sector jobs. [applause] senator brown: gas prices are at an historic low. more than 600,000 ohioans have health insurance now, many of them for the first time in their lives. and, as we saw in the video, jim, now marriage equality is the law of the land. god bless america. and don't forget the auto industry. republicans told us to let the auto industry go bankrupt. republicans called it

un-american. as ted strickland said, some republicans called it a lousy deal. a current republican presidential candidate, the one that is 0-22 in states, happens to be from ohio, he said this is throwing good money after bad. we rescued the auto industry this past year. a new record, 17 million new cars sold in the united states. i would add, connie and i and will drove down 71 today in our jeep cherokee, made in toledo, and our other car in the driveway in cleveland is a chevy cruise made in youngstown. [applause] brown: i speak from

personal experience when i tell you, you can't drive a better car anywhere in the world than ones made it here in ohio. [applause] senator brown: of course we have a long way to go. i'm not going to do a litany of the problems we still have. hard-working americans still struggle. despite working harder, paychecks do not keep up. retirement security, i met with a group of teamsters today, with a group of auto workers who are scared to death that their pensions will suffer major cuts if congress doesn't do the right thing. all of that is so important. yet washington republicans still cannot convince washington republicans to simply do their jobs. they shut down the government in 2013, and they are trying to shut down the supreme court in 2016.

think about that. they think barack obama was elected to a three-year term. think about this. my guess is most of you have not thought about this before. barack obama is only the second democratic president since the civil war, only the second democratic president since the civil war to have won a majority of votes in this country twice. only franklin roosevelt and barack obama -- there is no question that he had a resounding mandate for a second four, not 3, not 3 1/2, 3/5 of a term if you get the history, but a second four-year term. now, watching the other side in aese debates reminds me of story. i have told it before but i want to repeat it because i think it is so poignant in thinking about donald trump, ted cruz, marco rubio, the cast of walker and jindal and all these guys that

have disappeared into the trash heap of history. january 21, 2009. the tradition is the president after being sworn in, goes to the national cathedral for a prayer breakfast. there has been a national prayer request for every new president after they are inaugurated since george washington. the first woman ever to deliver a sermon at the service shared a piece of wisdom attributed to the cherokee nation. here is what she said. one evening, a grandfather was teaching his grandson about the internal battle that each of us as human beings face. there are two wolves struggling inside each of us, the old man said. one wolf is vengeance, vengefulness and anger and resentment and self pity and fear. the other wolf inside us is compassion and faithfulness and hope and truth and love and reason. the old man stopped.

the grandson said, well grandpa, which wolf wins? the grandfather said, the one that wins is the one you feed. now we know which wolf republicans have been feeding in these debates, in these rallies in chicago and kansas city and st. louis and cleveland and dayton. we also know this is the reason for donald trump. we know that republicans have dog-whistled about race for 50 years, but now they are shocked when donald trump starts barking. [applause]