That can’t be — famed Native American candidate Elizabeth Warren is surging in the polls! I kid, I kid, but unfortunately the cycle’s biggest disappointment isn’t joking. Kamala Harris practically had the red carpet laid out for her when she entered the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, including a move by her home state to go early in the voting process. Instead of catching fire, Harris wasted a momentary polling burst in the early summer and now polls routinely in the second tier or below.
Harris has an explanation for that, which is as ridiculous as it is predictable:
The “elephant in the room” for Harris is her incompetence at closing the deal. It’s absurd to be talking about racism as her biggest obstacle when Harris can’t even get into double digits in the same state that elected her to the Senate. California maneuvered itself to the front of the primary pack, which all but handed Harris a boatload of delegates if she just managed to remain competitive in the Golden State. Instead, it’s been nearly two months since she last hit double digits in California, and almost four months since she last polled higher than fourth place. In the most recent KQED/NPR poll in the state, Harris finished fifth, slightly behind a gay mayor from South Bend, Indiana who arguably doesn’t much resemble the previous 45 presidents in terms of identity either.
Now, Harris has won statewide elections in California three times — in 2010 and 2014 as attorney general, and then in 2016 to the US Senate. Harris barely won in her first election 46/45 in a six-way race, but got 56% on her re-election bid four years later and then 61.6% in her win to the US Senate — over a Hispanic Democrat, thanks to California’s all-in primary system. Are we to conclude that Californians only recently found out that Harris is a “woman of color”?
For this claim, Harris presents a single, solitary anecdote for support — and it’s from nearly twelve years ago. When the Axios interviewer reminds Harris that Barack Obama won two terms in office from the same supposedly racist/bigoted electorate, Harris relates a conversation she had in the run-up to the 2008 Iowa caucuses in which an elderly black woman told her that “they aren’t going to let him win.” Except, of course, Obama won the 2008 Iowa caucuses with 32% of the vote, well ahead of Hillary Clinton’s 25%, and won Iowa in the general election over John McCain 54/45.
One also has to wonder at the long-range strategy behind tossing this race/gender card at Democratic voters.
She is just one woman of color.
And, that particular woman of color had lots of baggage.
1. She had the black vote all locked up, in that she went after black drug users at a higher rate than other drug users. These blacks also got longer jail terms.
2. She traded sex for power, in that her sexual relationships led to her being promoted to beyond her abilities.
3. She lies. One famous lie was that she smoked pot in college while listening to Snoop. Big problem: Snoop’s song she cited came out AFTER she was a state prosecutor. So, she was imprisoning black men for the same pot use WHILE she was using pot and laughing about it.
4. She panders. I can’t even remember all the weird stuff she said she’d “absolutely” do if elected: taking all AR-15s, all guns, outlawing beef, forcing the Green New Deal on America, and more.
I can think of several women of color I’d vote for.
But she can’t intimidate people into voting for her hypocritical self.
Ugh, Muh race card is over the limit, I have no platform outside of My sex and race, so thats what drum I will beat.
Never mind my history of being an adulteress climber.
Never mind many things just give me my victim status.
Hear that, Democrats? If you don’t vote for Kamala, you are a racist misogynist. I think Kamala has been taking whiny, crybaby, sore loser excuse lessons from Hillary.
get real, she has a mattress on her back and knee pads 24/7. she would make prostitution legal in this country-whore dog billy would love her, considering his wife is a lesbian. there is an old adage: one should not be characterized by the people they sleep with but the quality of work and the history they create. really, slut hillary lacks both.