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Kamala Harris is Joe Biden's Vice Presidential running mate
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As is often mentioned, MA has a Republican governor with a term ending in 2022, so a Senate seat vacated by Warren would see a Republican appointed through at least the 2022 election. (Then a special election would determine who would serve out the rest of Warren's term.)
When was Harris super impressive during the primary debates? She had one good segment / soundbite and that was going at the guy she's on the ticket with for being a segregationist.
lol i had to double take for a second to see who this was from
speaking of which
dw-nominate scores
govtrack ideology scores
but sure, people, she's a ~*mOdErAtE*~
The stricter requirement would have been a basic moral decency and she wouldn't have qualified
I think the idea was that Bernie probably wouldn't have moderated his message / platform for the general, so he'd need a VP pick to balance that out. Whereas Biden has enough ""moderate"" cachet that he's been moving his policies over the past few months without issue, so his VP needed to instead be a generational / identity contrast. Hence him promising to choose a women and going with Harris.
Like, Biden doesn't need Warren as VP because he can just adopt her plans.
This man is a National Treasure.
LOL Safe Choice? Seen this ticket before have we?
The right choice. She's a brilliant addition to the ticket.
Watching her destroy Mike Pence is gonna be glorious.
Watching her destroy Mike Pence is gonna be glorious.
A mass incarceration architect, a conversion therapy believer, a prosecutor of truant children and a shady businessman walk into a room. Which two are the Republicans
Sure. As sound a political choice as it may be, it continues to be disheartening to see the assholes being the winners.
I'm going to guess it's because Royalan rammed her voting record down everyone's throats enough that people actually started looking into it.
Love you Roy.
as a non-american looking from the outside in, this whole democratic ticket feels bizarre given how things have gone down in recent years, and what you would expect based on that from what is supposed to be the sane party: a potential sexual abuser and a former cop.
i hope they win, obviously, but still, jesus.
i hope they win, obviously, but still, jesus.
She was that girl.
congrats! Looks like our first woman president is also going to be our first black woman president. Exciting choice.
congrats! Looks like our first woman president is also going to be our first black woman president. Exciting choice.
I mean who else was it ever gonna be? Like y'all know I was a Warren hardliner from minute one, but it was very clear Biden wanted a woman of color for his VP so she was never gonna get it. Out of the remaining options who else should've had it?
AOC won't be old enough until 2025.
EDIT: Maybe 2024, don't know the exact date cut-off.
Tactically speaking this is the best choice. Kamala performs well with both black voters and moderate/independent voters in what recent polling we have. A farther left candidate like Elizabeth Warren is a pyrrhic gesture and won't reshape his policy much more than the leftist voices already have.
Kamala's history as AG is a problem (probably the only thing that prevented this from being a slam dunk), but she's beens saying the right things in the last 3 months and I think Trump's campaign is too stupid and confused to use it. It'd probably backfire anyway since the most important demographic of votes for Biden right now is displaced suburban whites.
Kamala's history as AG is a problem (probably the only thing that prevented this from being a slam dunk), but she's beens saying the right things in the last 3 months and I think Trump's campaign is too stupid and confused to use it. It'd probably backfire anyway since the most important demographic of votes for Biden right now is displaced suburban whites.
most progressive senator -> moderate
Chicago guns are different than Vermont guns -> super leftist
as a non-american, you should probably do some current research into the Tara Reade claim.
Really people?
She's better than Biden and everyone should take note of that. It's hard to be too exasperated when the bar is already so low, but it is not great for the future prospects of your country.
Primary debates are different. She was up there on a stage with people who she mostly agreed with on +90% of policies and in terms of ideology more broadly. Look at her when she goes up against Republicans in Congress to get a better preview of how she will be with Pence.
except the allegations against Biden had zero credibility so you know and Kamala a cop. Okay
