Let her be Secretary of State.I'm so glad it's not Rice.
I feel bad for saying it. She's plenty qualified, but I just don't want to hear the Republican's greatest Benghazi hits for the next 3 months.
Cool cool cool cool cool. Someone in bed with the catholic church who chose to ignore victims of sexual assaults and their multiple pleas to reveal the name of their abusers. Awesome. Why are people cheering?!?!
No, she explicitly said the opposite.
What a way to not listen to any young voices but such is the way of the democrats
I cannot fathom being excited for her considering her awful record as California's AG. Just did everything in her power to punish the poor and protect corrupt trash like Steve Mnuchin. It's going to be sickening watching people pretend this person was a champion of righteous causes when she's been anything but.
Her and Biden are still better than Trump, but God this is bleak.
I'm super ok with the posters in here being disappointed in the pick.
because I know each and every one of you is gonna do the right thing come November.
This is almost objectively untrue, at least in terms of American politics. Her ideological score during her time in the senate is almost as far left as you can possibly go. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kamala_harris/412678Well she certainly isn't left. I have to clarify myself, I don't think voters on the left have to be won over, the vast majority of them are gonna vote for Biden regardless and he is gonna win but just this idea that leftist candidates have to accomodate the needs of the moderate voters but not vice versa pisses me off. For months he had to hear and listen how Bernie HAS to pick a moderate running mate. Just think of the poor suburban white moms he would allienate. But nothing about how Biden or other moderates have to appeal to left voters? It's just this constant feeling of the democratic establishment not caring one bit about the needs of their left wing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/moderates-cant-win-white-house/606985/
Oh man, this debate got me hyped than Trump vs Biden.
I mean it sucks but the difference here is that there are way more moderates in the US then progressives. And most of those progressives belong to notoriously unreliable demographics who can't be counted on to actually vote even when they like the candidateWell she certainly isn't left. I have to clarify myself, I don't think voters on the left have to be won over, the vast majority of them are gonna vote for Biden regardless and he is gonna win but just this idea that leftist candidates have to accomodate the needs of the moderate voters but not vice versa pisses me off. For months he had to hear and listen how Bernie HAS to pick a moderate running mate. Just think of the poor suburban white moms he would allienate. But nothing about how Biden or other moderates have to appeal to left voters? It's just this constant feeling of the democratic establishment not caring one bit about the needs of their left wing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/moderates-cant-win-white-house/606985/
Narrative overrides fact. For Republicans and Democrats. So much so that the media is often more interested in measuring narrative than they are in reporting facts.Is this the part of the thread, where we once again have to beat people over the head with the fact that Harris has one of the most progressive voting records in the Senate, beating out Warren and Sanders?
Imagine caring about voting records more than populist rhetoric lmaoThis is almost objectively untrue, at least in terms of American politics. Her ideological score during her time in the senate is almost as far left as you can possibly go. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kamala_harris/412678
She has a progressive voting record so outside of Warren was arguably the best choice but yeah, strategically not sure how this is going to appeal to the midwest states. Further shes not exactly super popular with progressives either.Good for her, but I don't understand the hype. A California liberal appeals to nobody but the already established based.