It was something that people were talking about during the impeachment hearings, and it doesn't seem as natural now as it did then.

But the thinking then was simply "These house managers really know how to prosecute a case!" And Demings was arguably the second-best of them (apart from Adam Schiff, but we don't need a second white guy on the ticket and he'd probably rather keep his chairmanship anyway).

Maybe it comes down to whether impeachment comes back up in the early campaign, or whether they want it to come up in the later campaign.

But also, she's someone that not everybody expects (so the naming would capture a longer news cycle), but whom pretty much every Democrat could very strongly get behind.

Also, she's from Florida. If we can start winning Florida again, oh boy...