Harris, the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, was the wire-to-wire frontrunner for Bidens No. 2 job.
Joe Biden has selected Sen. Kamala Harris to be his running mate, elevating a charismatic blue-state senator, former prosecutor and onetime 2020 primary rival who has built a reputation as an unyielding antagonist of the Trump administration.
Harris, the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, was the wire-to-wire frontrunner for Bidens No. 2 job. Her experience as a battle-tested presidential candidate, her efforts leading major law enforcement offices and her political track record of three election wins in California helped her overcome a crowded list of contenders.
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Harris will be the first woman and the first Black vice president if elected. And Bidens barrier-breaking pick of her comes at a time of racial reckoning in the country, plunging one of the best-known women of color in politics into a contest against President Donald Trump, who has stoked racial divisions in the White House and on the campaign trail.
Biden prioritized choosing a running mate with whom he was simpatico, as he frequently said, and his months-long search narrowed the list to a handful of women the campaign believed could help energize Democrats in the homestretch of the campaign. In Harris, Biden is hoping to combine both of his priorities, finding a thrilling campaigner as well as a long-term governing partner. The reasons why Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris
Harris, 55, has also built a personal rapport with Biden, and she was close with his late son, Beau, a fellow former state attorney general. But Harris had to survive concerns inside the Biden campaign about whether she could be a trusted partner in the job, after a bitter primary clash and a searing debate broadside by Harris strained relationships between their allies.
Harris has also faced persistent criticism for her prosecutorial record, including concerns she was too cautious to lead on sweeping changes. Her embrace in recent years of far-reaching changes has won over some skeptics, and she helped steer Democratic efforts to pass police reform this summer. A child of the Civil Rights Movement, whose parents were active in 1960s marches, Harris joined Black Lives Matter demonstrations this summer.
In the Senate, Harris must-see cross-examinations of Republican witnesses in hearings helped elevate her national profile. She was considered a top-tier presidential contender when she launched her campaign last year before more than 22,000 people in her hometown of Oakland. But even as she displayed flashes of brilliance as a candidate including the clash with Biden in the Miami debate, which temporarily boosted her in polls and helped her raise millions of dollars Harris struggled with consistency and see-sawed between health care policies.
Harris campaign unraveled under the weight of a confusing message and an unclear chain of command atop her staff, ending in mutiny amid late-fall layoffs. She flatlined into the low-single before dropping out before the Iowa caucuses.
It was the first time Harris had lost a campaign, after a rapid rise through California. A former line prosecutor who got her start in Alameda County the same office where former Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren once presided she launched her first political run in 2003, for San Francisco district attorney, as a decided longshot. Harris ultimately defeated the incumbent after accusing him of running a dysfunctional office and not addressing rising crime rates.
While Harris cultivated the Bay Areas wealthy and connected, she also campaigned with an ironing board, passing out leaflets at transit stops and blocking out her weekends to appear at clubs and churches in the famously left-wing city, where politics has been compared to bloodsport. Others have emerged nationally from this crucible, among them House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who became mayor of the city after the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk. But none have reached the heights Harris is now touching, or risen as quickly.
Six years after the district attorneys race, Harris was again seen as an underdog in her campaign for state attorney general. Up against a popular district attorney from Los Angeles, Republican Steve Cooley, Harris was seen even by some in her own party as unelectable, as an anti-death penalty woman of color from San Francisco a dismissal that Harris has since worn as a badge of pride.
Harris narrowly won the race, before building her political cachet to the point that she drew a nominal challenge for reelection in 2014 and cruised to an open Senate seat in 2016, becoming the first Indian American and only the second Black female senator.
As Harris celebrated her election to the Senate, Trumps victory in the race for president loomed over her victory speech and ushered in the next phase of her career, which now has her months away from potentially moving into a White House office alongside Biden.
Do we retreat, or do we fight? Harris said on election night 2016. I say we fight. And I intend to fight.
#1: X-15 To: Ada (#0)
It'll take 40 U-Haul vans to carry that cunt's baggage around the campaign trail.
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NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-08-11 17:08:34 Reply Private Reply
#3: Lod To: Ada (#0)
Lod posted on 2020-08-11 18:05:34 Reply Private Reply
#4: Ada To: Lod (#3)
Kamala Harris slept her way to the top
Ada posted on 2020-08-11 18:12:02 Reply Private Reply
#5: TommyTheMadArtist To: Ada (#0)
The dems are throwing this election because they have no viable candidates.
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#6: Horse To: Ada (#0)
Biden Backers Pushing Hard Against Kamala Harris As VP Choice https://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=239278
During the primary, Harris attacked Biden for his past record of voting against integrated busing. He did this while a senator from Delaware.
I Have Never Seen an Organization Treat Its Staff So Poorly Kamala Harriss 2020 Campaign Implodes
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Democrat Senator Kamala Harriss 2020 campaign is imploding as her lead operations manager resigns and blasts her in a scathing letter.
The New York Times reported that Harriss lead staffer stepped down and her campaign was having financial problems.
This is my third presidential campaign and I have never seen an organization treat its staff so poorly, wrote Kelly Mehelenbacher, Harriss state operations lead, in a blistering resignation.
Tulsi Gabbard Goes After the Party, Tangles With Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris Proposes A 10-Hour School Day
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According to The Hill, Harris Family Friendly Schools Act would create a pilot program to give schools funds to stay open during the entire workday throughout the school year, as well as to invest over $1 billion to boost summer learning programs.
Willie Brown Stiffs Kamala Harris; Says Hillary Clinton The Only One Who Can Beat Trump
"Hillary is still the smartest of the bunch."
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Kamala Harris insists that government should dictate how much red meat you are allowed to consume
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According to Harris, Americans need to be eating far less meat in order to prevent carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from warming the planet to the point that it might flood the Obamas new beachfront estate in Marthas Vineyard.
ABC Contributor On Kamala Harris Answering Questions We Saw Tonight Was A Challenge For Her
Politifact catches Kamala Harris in yet another lie and this ones a DOOZY
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Sen. Kamala Harris claimed at a recent climate town hall that she "sued Exxon Mobil" as California attorney general.
She opened an investigation into the oil giant over allegations it was lying to the public and its shareholders about climate change. But theres no public evidence, or any from her campaign, that she ever filed a lawsuit against the company.
Katie Pavlich truth-bombs Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Beto OÂRourke and Amy Klobuchar on the Philly shooter and gun control
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The Philadelphia shooter was a felon. It is already illegal for felons to have guns
Sharyl Attkisson dismantles Kamala Harris and Elizabeth WarrenÂs Michael Brown claims in fact-filled thread
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The Obama Justice Dept. ultimately determined Brown was *not* "murdered" and "likely did not have his hands up" when shot. The Obama Justice Dept. declined to charge the officer with anything.
New Redesign of CA Website Removes Arrest Reports from Kamalas Controversial Years
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But Im deeply concerned about this record. There are too many examples to cite but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.
She blocked evidence she blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California, Gabbard said.
Hot Mic Catches Biden Asking Kamala Harris To Go Easy on Me
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Kamala Harris Calls for Banning AR-15s
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CNN Host Gets Kamala Harris To Admit She's Taking Away Your Employer-Provided Health Insurance
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Kamala Harris Has To Answer For Not Prosecuting Steve Mnuchin
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Steve Mnuchin and OneWest Bank were, according to a memo obtained and reported on by The Intercept, guilty of widespread misconduct in the form of over 1,000 legal violations. The memo was the result of a year-long investigation and it asserts that OneWest Bank operated to intentionally boost foreclosures. The Campaign for Accountability called for a federal investigation of Mnuchin and OneWest Bank claiming they used potentially illegal tactics to foreclose on as many as 80,000 California homes. Yet despite internal memos explicitly mentioning numerous prosecutable offenses by Mnuchin and co., then California Attorney General Kamala Harris refused to prosecute. Shes never given an explanation for her decision and Mnuchin later donated $2,000.00 to Harris campaign. It was his only donation to a Democratic candidate.
Court Files Come Back To Haunt Kamala, Show Donation from Vile Trump 8 Years Ago
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The report said Harris took a $5,000 contribution from Trump, who donated extensively to political candidates of both parties during his tenure as the head ...
Tulsi Gabbard torches Kamala on Criminal Justice
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Kamala Harris introduced legislation to tax people across the US to send the money to sanctuary cities to subsidize high rents. This program would only encourage more illegal immigration. And it would only benefit landlords in places like California who profited enough already from illegal immigration driving rental prices higher.
Kamala Harris lied
Kamala Harris lied in that famous debate confrontation with Joe Biden. That public school was desegregated before she was born. And her Indian born mother took her to Canada when she was 7. If Joe Biden had a brain and were 30 years younger, he could have said, "Excuse, but you were in Canada at that time."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lufxM4hlYE
Democratic Debate Winner Kamala Harris Has Flip-Flopped 3 Times in 24 Hours
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At issue is Harris decision on Thursday night to take a very public stand in pledging to end private health insurance in the United States, in favor of the Medicare for All idea championed by Vermont nutcase Bernie Sanders.
In fact, Harris was the only candidate besides Sanders to raise a hand Thursday when moderator Lester Holt asked: Who here would abolish their private health insurance in favor of a government-run plan?
That seems like a pretty straightforward position if morally, intellectually and financially indefensible.
But it turned out Harris really didnt mean to be so straightforward after all.
In an interview with MSNBCs Morning Joe on Friday, Harris said she didnt hear the same question everyone else did.
Once and for all, do you believe that private insurance should be eliminated in this country? Morning Joe co-anchor Willie Geist asked.
No, Harris responded sharply.
But you raised your hand last night, Geist said. But the question was, would you give up your private insurance for that option and I said yes, Harris clarified.
I think you heard it differently than others, then, Geist responded. Probably, Harris said.
Sure she did.
To be fair, Holt did say their private insurance, but he also said abolish.
Which is not something most people think of doing to their own insurance plans.
Kamala Harris Won the Democratic Debate by Fudging Her Record
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Harris told viewers that she disagreed with President Obamas policy of informing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when undocumented immigrants were arrested for state or local crimes. But as district attorney of San Francisco, Kamala Harris supported a city policy that required law enforcement to turn over undocumented juvenile immigrants to federal immigration authorities if they were arrested and suspected of committing a felony, regardless of whether they were actually convicted of a crime, CNN notes.
Another whopper: Harris claimed last night to have been one of the earliest and biggest proponents of police-worn body cameras. But as recently as 2015, she was arguing against making it Californias official statewide policy. I as a general matter believe that we should invest in the ability of law enforcement leaders in specific regions and with their departments to use discretion to figure out what technology they are going to adopt based on needs that they have and resources that they have, Harris said at the time.
On FatherÂs Day, Kamala Harris Compares Military Dads to Illegal Aliens and Criminals
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Democratic Party presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (CA) posted Fathers Day greetings to Twitter on Sunday comparing deployed military fathers who are away from their children on Fathers Day to illegal aliens and accused criminals. Harris listed them in presumed order of dearness to her heart, putting US military dads third behind first-in-her heart illegal aliens and accused criminals who cant make bail. Today Im thinking of the fathers who cant be with their children because they were ripped from their sons and daughters at the border. The fathers who cant celebrate today because they cant afford bail. The fathers who are deployed. ...
Deal breaker: Sen. Kamala Harris is in trouble for letting AIPAC come to her
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Kamala Harris found herself in hot water with CODE PINK for previously appearing at AIPACs conference and urged not to attend in 2019. MoveOns membership also urged all 2020 candidates to keep their distance from AIPAC this year. Harris didnt go to the AIPAC conference this year, but she did let AIPAC come to her: Poster Comment:INTERESTING POINT: Move On is a George Soros front.
Huge injustice: Kamala Harris accused of refusing to prosecute Podesta-linked company in exchange for bribes
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Kamala Harris is being slammed by Latino activists for refusing to investigate the Ponzi scheme operated by nutritional supplement marketer Herbalife in exchange for what amounts to bribes masquerading as donations from Herbalife lobbyist Heather Podesta. At the time, Harris was the attorney general of California. Heather Podesta was married to Tony Podesta, the high-powered lobbyist with longstanding ties to Hillary Clinton. Tonys brother John Podesta was the campaign manager for Hillary 2016 presidential campaign.
Kamala Harris Father Turns on Her: We Wish To Categorically Dissociate Ourselves from This Travesty
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The father of Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris said he wanted to dissociate himself from his daughters fraudulent stereotype of attributing her support for smoking pot to her Jamaican heritage. Last week, on New Yorks The Breakfast Club radio program, Harris denied opposing the legalization of recreational marijuana use. Thats not true, she told co-host Charlamagne Tha God. Asked if she ever smoked pot, the candidate answered, I have. And I inhaled. I did inhale. It was a long time ago, then revealing it was in college.
Kamala Harris Supports Canceling Columbus Day on New Hampshire Stop
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Sen. Harris (D-CA) told a Monday crowd in Portsmouth that she would support replacing the longstanding U.S. holiday in favor of Indigenous Peoples Day,
Kamala Harris A.G. Office Tried to Keep Inmates Locked Up for Cheap Labor
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Ordered to reduce the population of Californias overcrowded prisons, lawyers from then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris office made the case that some non-violent offenders needed to stay incarcerated or else the prison system would lose a source of cheap labor. In 2011, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Plata that Californias prisons were so overcrowded that they violated the Constitutions prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. Three years later, in early 2014, the state was ordered to allow non-violent, second time offenders who have served half of their sentence to be eligible for parole.
Kamala Harris: No Friend to Criminal Justice Reform She didn't push for reform when she had the opportunity as district attorney and as attorney general.
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During her time as San Francisco's district attorney, Harris oversaw the city's mismanaged crime lab. A San Francisco superior court judge ruled that the D.A.'s office ignored demands that it take responsibility for the lab's failings, and that it violated defendants' rights by hiding information about a corrupt technician who had been stealing cocaine. (Harris challenged the release of a man who had been exonerated by the Innocence Project and had his conviction overturned. Harris argued that Daniel Larsen, who spent 13 years in prison for the crime of possessing a concealed knife, had not produced evidence of his innocence fast enough. A federal judge overturned his conviction after finding that Larsen had shown he was innocent, that the cops testifying at his trial weren't credible, and that his attorney, since disbarred, was constitutionally ineffective because he had failed to call any witnesses.My comment) As attorney general of California, Harris challenged the release of a man who had been exonerated by the Innocence Project and had his conviction overturned. Harris argued that Daniel Larsen, who spent 13 years in prison for the crime of possessing a concealed knife, had not produced evidence of his innocence fast enough. A federal judge overturned his conviction after finding that Larsen had shown he was innocent, that the cops testifying at his trial weren't credible, and that his attorney, since disbarred, was constitutionally ineffective because he had failed to call any witnesses.
When the Supreme Court decided that California's overcrowded prisons represented cruel and unusual punishment, Attorney General Harris fought a ruling ordering California to release some of its prisoners. Harris claims she had to fight the ruling for Gov. Jerry Brown. "I have a client, and I don't get to choose my client," she said. But the attorney general in California is an independent, elected position, not an appointee serving at the governor's pleasure.
She also refused to endorse sentencing reform measures on the ballot in 2012 and 2014, saying she couldn't do so because she was responsible for producing an official explanation of the measures. John Van de Kamp, a Democrat who served as attorney general from 1983 to 1991, told The New York Times Magazine that her explanation was "baloney." No statute prohibits attorneys general from endorsing ballot measures, and de Kamp himself endorsed three separate 1990 ballot measures while he held the office.
When a federal judge ruled in 2014 that California's application of the death penalty was unconstitutional, Harris fought that ruling too, almost certainly for political reasons. The first time she had run for attorney general, back in 2010, only one law enforcement group endorsed her; the rest were upset that she hadn't sought the death penalty against an alleged cop killer in San Francisco. In 2014, by contrast, nearly 50 police groups endorsed her reelection campaign.
Harris has also been a staunch supporter of the drug war. As San Francisco D.A. she opposed a measure to legalize marijuana, and when she ran for attorney general she argued that legalization would encourage people to work and drive while high. As attorney general, she called for an expansion of the state's efforts to track prescription drug users. She also opposed cuts to drug enforcement programs that often targeted drug dealers for nonviolent offenses.
Harris also wanted to threaten the parents of truants with jail time. Truancy in California is defined as having three unexcused absences or being late to school by 30 minutes three times in one school year. "We take this matter very seriously," she told lawmakers. "A child going without an education is tantamount to a crime."
NEW evidence: Kamala Harris wrongfully charged this Trump supporter with "hate crime"
LAPD never bothered to check the defendant's phone records in the 30 days prior to his arrest. The records would have proved that he never made the 2 phone calls in question. The man who made the calls was the son of a prominent Democrat judge.
Horse posted on 2020-08-11 20:19:06 Reply Private Reply
#7: Horse To: Bill D Berger, noone222, Lod, Dakmar, Former Lurker, Strait Gate, Anthem, Liberator, Ada, BTP Holdings (#0)
Horse posted on 2020-08-11 21:02:26 Reply Private Reply
#8: Dakmar To: Horse (#7)
She's gonna club him to death while he's taking his mid-morning nap.
Dakmar posted on 2020-08-11 21:10:24 Reply Private Reply
#9: BTP Holdings To: Dakmar (#8)
I wonder what is happening behind the scenes, like when they twisted Ronald Reagan's arm to pick George H.W. Bush as his running mate. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-08-12 11:30:43 Reply Private Reply
#10: hondo68 To: Ada (#0)
Split the progressive libtard trumpkin vote.
hondo68 posted on 2020-08-12 13:08:25 Reply Private Reply
#11: randge To: TommyTheMadArtist (#5)
My growing suspicion for many weeks now, and I agree with you entirely.
Just about every national Dem figure is simply indigestible as a presidential candidate.
The presumed campaign figureheads are 1) a senile basement-dwelling white guy who can barely string a sentence togther, and 2) a "whore only known for riding a married man 40 years her senior into positions of power and influence. . . wholly unqualified to hold office" as one poster put it.
Biden's choice is too left for the average voter and too LE for the voters on the left.
What the dems put on the ticket this time around is so damned gag-me bad that they virtually ensure the Donald's reelection. I believe they'll be happy with another four years of obstruction and mayhem.
randge posted on 2020-08-12 13:47:08 Reply Private Reply
#12: Lod To: randge (#11)
Lod posted on 2020-08-12 15:52:55 Reply Private Reply
#13: BTP Holdings To: Horse (#6)
You can only use one rifle at a time unless you are an octopus. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-08-12 16:15:54 Reply Private Reply
#14: randge To: Lod (#12)
There's a picture that will give me nightmares.
randge posted on 2020-08-12 16:36:51 Reply Private Reply
#15: BTP Holdings To: randge (#11)
In Chicago the saying was, "Vote early and vote often". They had a big problem with voter fraud and ghost voters in particular. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-08-12 16:46:27 Reply Private Reply
#16: Cynicom To: Lod (#12)
Snicker....
Cynicom posted on 2020-08-12 17:02:20 Reply Private Reply