Vice President Kamala Harris gave the public its first real look into her nascent presidential campaign with a stop at her organization’s headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware on Monday night.
Harris’ first applause line came when she discussed her background as California attorney general and as a courtroom prosecutor.
“In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds,” she said, earning cackles while she beamed, clearly enjoying the joke. “Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type.”
Trump has the impulse control of a squirrel on meth, and an assertive brown woman is pretty much his nightmare (and the sum of all reactionary fears). Trump being made sport of by a minority woman is going to drive him off the rails. The racism and misogyny will be fully unleashed and I suspect he will die by the ugly sword he himself forged.
I hope they don’t pick her. She was repugnant when she had some power.
I don’t care for some of her positions, but would you care to elaborate how, or is this just some bullshit feeling stuff?
Your own source disagrees with your black and white oversimplification
But what seem like contradictions may reflect a balancing act. Harris’s parents worked on civil rights causes, and she came from a background well aware of the excesses of the criminal justice system — but in office, she played the role of a prosecutor and California’s lawyer. She started in an era when “tough on crime” politics were popular across party lines — but she rose to national prominence as criminal justice reform started to take off nationally. She had an eye on higher political office as support for criminal justice reform became de rigueur for Democrats — but she still had to work as California’s top law enforcement official. Her race and gender likely made this balancing act even tougher. In the US, studies have found that more than 90 percent of elected prosecutors are white and more than 80 percent are male. As a Black and Indian American woman, Harris stood out — inviting scrutiny and skepticism, especially by people who may hold racist stereotypes about how Black people view law enforcement or sexist views about whether women are “tough” enough for the job.
She’s not two faced, she’s trying to make positive changes in a political climate that is biased against her. That’s far more nuanced than you claim. And far less two faced than her opponent.
I’m not arguing for Trump. I’m arguing that you could find someone better. American politics is exhausting. You have better people, like Andrew Yang, instead you give the world the better of two bad choices.
Lol no, just no on yang.
you don’t understand what it’s like to be a citizen here, you don’t live here, so maybe just shut up and listen to the ones over here in the trenches.
Your actions reverberate across the world. But not for long
Look through their comment history… before you block them haha
Good for Kamala Harris.
Keep it punchy, don’t waste too much time bashing Trump or else the whole campaign is about him.
Constant liar? Forgot 'bout that?
Nice. Keep up the good work.
I’m digging this!! 🍿
Finally, someone who is actually willing to treat Trump’s many flaws as weakpoints.
First woman president is a hail mary in the last months of election year? Sounds like humanity to me.
Well, we’re a lot more interested now, aren’t we?
We do love dangling victory into the jaws of defeat for a few moments. I haven’t been alive to see a lot of my favorite moments in this timeline, so I’m glad I’ll be here for this legendary one.
Convicted felon, rapist and racist.
Harris opted for liable of scamming, sexual abuse, and guilty of fraud on thirty-four counts instead of fraud, rape, and convicted of thirty-four felonies. Great start, but she should not shy from harsh rhetoric.
She should point out, repeatedly, that the man has no financial skills at all. Keep hammering how bad he was for workers and the economy in general but still turned a tidy profit for himself. He would actually have more wealth now if he had just invested his inheritance in the S&P (according to Forbes) instead of starting all his cockamamie businesses. The man ran how many casinos into the ground? He went bankrupt in businesses where people say “the house always wins” because the odds are literally stacked in the house’s favor.
All she has to do is keep calling him weak publicly and he will fucking lose it
I don’t know. He seems to have more restraint than we think he does. I expected his head to explode during the debate when his mike was cut off.
She needs to go, repeatedly like, “I mean… He bankrupted a casino… A casino” and, “Speaking of predator, this manchild lied about his associations with Epstein while also flying on his private plane at least 7 times. Would you let him watch your daughter? HELL NO.”
I wouldn’t even let him watch his own daughter
Oh he wants to do more than just watch his daughter. Ivanka not Tiffany.
I am frustrated that we didn’t get to pick our candidate in the primaries, I don’t know if Harris is my style. She might be.
But God damn I am looking forward to her going head to head with Trump. She is sharp as hell on her feet.
I was not a harris booster previously but the biggest complaint I have about her, “Copmala” is actually a significant strength in this election. Then I started reading into her voting record. Combine that with her being a woman in the post roe v wade world, and a woman of color against the most xenophobic party that any of us have experienced and I think she’s EXACTLY what we need.
The American public has swung back towards more moderate policing. Progressive approaches were rebuked in the Pacific North West. It’s absolutely a strength right now
I am really really liking her. A lot. She is giving me rockstar vibes like Obama.
Sounds like the sequel to “Six”. Maybe we can make a pop musical from Trump’s ex-wives and call it “Three”. (Melania counts, because she will be an ex-wife eventually.)
There’s an actual off-broadway show that is kind of that: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JjZntLkKjcI
I have this pet theory that she paid that kid to take a shot at trump.
You should take that pet out back behind the woodshed
Don’t be too confident of that: She could become a widow.
God damn! Coming in weapons hot! I like her more and more each day!
I want that debate between her and poor Donnie. This woman ia going to roast the shit out of him with her professional experience.
That’s what’s needed. The older boomer republicans (not die hard MAGA’s, there’s a lot more of the at least rational ones out there) need to see her wipe the floor with him with facts and tough questions he outright lies to, to have a chance of changing their vote.
With respect, anyone who would vote for Trump probably isn’t worth spending time convincing. Some of them might come around, but if she has one, Kamala’s value will be in getting undecided and first time voters to the polls. One of the most popular choices every election is “not going to vote”
I remember people saying the same thing about Clinton leading up to their debates. At least Harris has a few more years of criming to draw on.
HRC was a genuinely awful debater and she still arguably won all debates against 2016 Trump. Harris is a great debater and she is up against 2024-Trump. He’s no match.
I hope you’re right but I have my doubts.
She was a career prosecutor. Her bread and butter was tearing people open for others to see. No idea where your doubt is coming from.
I guess we’ll find out but I don’t think she’s going to publicly humiliate Trump like some people here seem to.
We’ve seen already he doesn’t have the software to feel humiliation. I think we’ll see him get so angry he becomes kind of incoherent, but even that’s barely a stretch.
Has he ever done that in public before?
