As you said, it's a point of pride for the Democratic Party that we care about diversity, that we want to make sure that our leadership reflects the country that we serve.

I've sought to do that in my administration as mayor. I’m doing that with the campaign team that I'm surrounding myself with. But as you said in your question, it's also not just a question of the makeup of your team but what your policies are going to be. And we need to make sure this is an inclusive set of policies that's going to serve everybody well.

For example, we know, just by the numbers, that if you’re a person of color in this country, in many ways you might as well be living in a different country. You look at the rate at which black women are likely to die from maternal complications — it’s about three times what it is for white women. That didn’t just happen, and it’s not going to get fixed without policies that specifically pay attention to how those racial inequities got there — in health, but also in areas like housing, like employment and, of course, the criminal justice system that frankly does not treat everybody the same.