Joe Biden Has Picked His VP. Update: It's Kamala Harris!
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saturn7
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Her own campaign fell flat
For all the excitement expressed about Harris’s selection, the fact remains that her own presidential campaign underperformed expectations in a big way.
After a huge rally in Oakland, Calif., started her bid on a strong note, Harris struggled to gain traction.
Biden is derided by some progressives on social media as the classic “old white guy” moderate, but polls showed him receiving far greater Black support than Harris did.
Harris also had some policy stumbles, notably on "Medicare for All." As far back as June 2019, a CNN analysis appeared below the headline "Kamala Harris can't get her story straight on Medicare for All. Again."
More broadly, there was long a question mark over where exactly Harris stood, especially in contrast to obvious moderates such as Biden or clear progressives such as Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
Harris’s campaign did not even make it out of 2019. She called it quits in December, two months before the Iowa caucuses.
As Harris’s boosters talk about the excitement she will bring to the ticket, it’s reasonable to wonder why more voters weren’t more excited by her actual candidacy.
That debate moment
No sooner was Harris’s selection announced than the Trump campaign was out with a statement from senior adviser Katrina Pierson alleging Harris had previously called Biden a racist.
The president himself seemed to be alluding to the same moment at a news conference late Tuesday when he said Harris had said “horrible” things about Biden at a debate.
Harris did not, in fact, call Biden a racist. But she did go all-in on an attack on his record on school busing — despite having a current position broadly similar to his. It was a fiery moment and one of the most heated clashes of the primary season.
Both Harris and Biden are likely to be asked about it for the rest of the campaign.
Will the left get restless?
Harris drew considerable fire from left-wing activists during her presidential run, in part because they argued her past record, particularly as a prosecutor, was far less progressive than she likes to suggest.
The same criticism was voiced in the media.
Law professor Lara Bazelon wrote in The New York Times in January 2019 that “Time after time, when progressives urged her to embrace criminal justice reforms as a district attorney and then the state’s attorney general, Ms. Harris opposed them or stayed silent.”
Bazelon asserted that Harris had “fought tooth and nail to uphold wrongful convictions” and noted that in 2015 she had “opposed a bill requiring her office to investigate shootings involving officers.”
The desire to oust Trump is a powerful glue holding the different strands of the Democratic Party together. Sanders welcomed her selection on Tuesday.
But there will be plenty of people on the left who have misgivings about Harris — and whose doubts the Trump campaign will be only too happy to amplify.
Three pros and three cons to Biden picking Harris
Her own campaign fell flat
For all the excitement expressed about Harris’s selection, the fact remains that her own presidential campaign underperformed expectations in a big way.
After a huge rally in Oakland, Calif., started her bid on a strong note, Harris struggled to gain traction.
Biden is derided by some progressives on social media as the classic “old white guy” moderate, but polls showed him receiving far greater Black support than Harris did.
Harris also had some policy stumbles, notably on "Medicare for All." As far back as June 2019, a CNN analysis appeared below the headline "Kamala Harris can't get her story straight on Medicare for All. Again."
More broadly, there was long a question mark over where exactly Harris stood, especially in contrast to obvious moderates such as Biden or clear progressives such as Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
Harris’s campaign did not even make it out of 2019. She called it quits in December, two months before the Iowa caucuses.
As Harris’s boosters talk about the excitement she will bring to the ticket, it’s reasonable to wonder why more voters weren’t more excited by her actual candidacy.
That debate moment
No sooner was Harris’s selection announced than the Trump campaign was out with a statement from senior adviser Katrina Pierson alleging Harris had previously called Biden a racist.
The president himself seemed to be alluding to the same moment at a news conference late Tuesday when he said Harris had said “horrible” things about Biden at a debate.
Harris did not, in fact, call Biden a racist. But she did go all-in on an attack on his record on school busing — despite having a current position broadly similar to his. It was a fiery moment and one of the most heated clashes of the primary season.
Both Harris and Biden are likely to be asked about it for the rest of the campaign.
Will the left get restless?
Harris drew considerable fire from left-wing activists during her presidential run, in part because they argued her past record, particularly as a prosecutor, was far less progressive than she likes to suggest.
The same criticism was voiced in the media.
Law professor Lara Bazelon wrote in The New York Times in January 2019 that “Time after time, when progressives urged her to embrace criminal justice reforms as a district attorney and then the state’s attorney general, Ms. Harris opposed them or stayed silent.”
Bazelon asserted that Harris had “fought tooth and nail to uphold wrongful convictions” and noted that in 2015 she had “opposed a bill requiring her office to investigate shootings involving officers.”
The desire to oust Trump is a powerful glue holding the different strands of the Democratic Party together. Sanders welcomed her selection on Tuesday.
But there will be plenty of people on the left who have misgivings about Harris — and whose doubts the Trump campaign will be only too happy to amplify.
Three pros and three cons to Biden picking Harris
G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman
Logic Is Absent Wherever Hate Is Present
@Samori Toure your turn to show your receipts champ
BruhManFromTheFifthFlo
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G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman
Logic Is Absent Wherever Hate Is Present
And I still beat you in a debateI’m convinced you low key crazy
says more about your intelligence quotient than it does mine 
Yeah you are White, because clearly you have never seen my past posts. Only a White dude would look at my avatar and would not know what I am about.
What are you about? Clearly you read conservative websites and keep posting articles which have authors who are conservatives.
ETA: The trolls have arrived.
It is only August, buckle up coli brehs.
saturn7
Politics is an EXCHANGE!!!
During CNN’s town hall with California Sen. Kamala Harris on Monday night, moderator Jake Tapper asked her about making history as a Black woman. However, the always analyzing eyes of Twitter noticed Harris never referenced herself as a Black woman, only a woman of color.
Twitter Wonders If Kamala Harris Identifies As Black Or Just A ‘Woman Of Color’
Jake: what does potentially being the first Black woman president mean to you?
Harris: *intentionally not saying Black* i’m the first “woman”, and first “woman of color”
BruhManFromTheFifthFlo
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You literally make no senseAnd I still beat you in a debate
When did this also become a debate?
The Fukin Prophecy
RIP Champ
I didn't say it was Jim Crow, I called your fukking inbred CAC state Jim Crow you word tap dancing idiot...
Just because some fukk former slave state does it to, doesn't make it right...
I know it hurts you to do this but lets think logically about Copmalas trunacy program...How do you keep truant kids in school by slapping their parents with fines they can't afford and are subsequently jailed for? Who is that dumbass policy hurting the most? White suburban parents who can afford the fines? Or low income black parents who can't afford the fines?...How the fukk is that a logical program for a so called "black woman" ?
Bottom line here is simpleton, she had the power to do something productive, instead she towed the white mans line and hurt black families while she dined with her white family...
You can keep tap dancing around the facts on her record, that won't make them disappear...
G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman
Logic Is Absent Wherever Hate Is Present
When you rebutted my replyYou literally make no sense
When did this also become a debate?
black and beautiful
BruhManFromTheFifthFlo
Veteran
Either way, you’ve disproved nothing. Shouting out random names means nothingWhen you rebutted my reply
saturn7
Politics is an EXCHANGE!!!
yaaaaaasssssssss
G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman
Logic Is Absent Wherever Hate Is Present
But logic means everything to those with sense and reasonEither way, you’ve disproved nothing. Shouting out random names means nothing
@G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman u need to stop. When you’ve done things like this u can’t tell anyone what they need to be doing, and think you’ll be taken seriously
You sat there and doubled down on your ignorance and racism on some Trump shyt, and ur gonna try and act like you’re tryna help us?
u also got caught calling people baboons here. Why should any self respecting black person take you seriously??
you have identity issues of your own and you stay acting questionably.
