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Harris needs at least a few years in the Senate before she'll be a serious candidate. I know of her as the San Francisco DA (hence her tough questioning at various hearings), but just because we have a complete amateur in the WH doesn't mean just anyone can be a serious candidate now.
Only through identity politics is she a serious candidate.
Harris needs at least a few years in the Senate before she'll be a serious candidate. I know of her as the San Francisco DA (hence her tough questioning at various hearings), but just because we have a complete amateur in the WH doesn't mean just anyone can be a serious candidate now.
She also spent 6 years as the AG of the most populous state with the nation's biggest economy. And now represents that State in the US Senate with assignment to some important Senate Committees. Her experience, by the time of the 2020 election, will resemble that of Pres. Obama when he first ran.
I think she and the Party have done a nice job of preparing her for a run. But she'll have to connect to voters to get it done in the primaries--assuming she wants to run.
I agree that we should ever use Trump as a baseline for experience or qualification.
I was not impressed with Harris during her terms here in California, although it was nice that she was so proud of her Indian-American mother and talked about her a lot and what it meant to grow up with the Indian culture. Apparently her father was Jamaican--never heard about him.
Then she started running for the Senate. Threw her mom under the bus and suddenly became Black-American.
That didn't impress me a bit. Then she's been in Congress for a minute, hasn't accomplished anything but is in line to run for President?
Sounds a lot like how Obama was "shaped."
Reality in America is that multiracial ppl are FORCED to choose a group. Sh has always said that she is half and half🌖
Slept her way to the top. When she was thirty she 'dated' powerful California Dem, Speaker of the State Assembly and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, sixty. Shortly thereafter she got titles, position, power and money. She's lucky she found a straight man in San Francisco.
The Democrats are under the impression that they can nominate anyone and defeat Trump in 2020. So I can see them pushing Harris for identity politics reasons alone
She also spent 6 years as the AG of the most populous state with the nation's biggest economy. And now represents that State in the US Senate with assignment to some important Senate Committees. Her experience, by the time of the 2020 election, will resemble that of Pres. Obama when he first ran.
I think she and the Party have done a nice job of preparing her for a run. But she'll have to connect to voters to get it done in the primaries--assuming she wants to run.
I agree that we should ever use Trump as a baseline for experience or qualification.
Right now she hasn't done much except take a stand for immigrant families and push for Jeff Sessions' removal due to perjury. That's not gonna connect with voters in the Heartland. Obama won because, not only was he likeable, he did all the county fairs in Iowa and throughout Middle America to talk with them and say how he wanted to help them. Right now there's a huge disconnect between the coasts and "flyover country" and I don't see Harris bridging that gap. But I think she's valuable to have at the table.
Right now she hasn't done much except take a stand for immigrant families and push for Jeff Sessions' removal due to perjury. That's not gonna connect with voters in the Heartland. Obama won because, not only was he likeable, he did all the county fairs in Iowa and throughout Middle America to talk with them and say how he wanted to help them. Right now there's a huge disconnect between the coasts and "flyover country" and I don't see Harris bridging that gap. But I think she's valuable to have at the table.
Why not? She's a tough investigator, given her DA/AG background, and seems to have fallen into her role as senator fairly quickly. As someone said already, the last election showed Democrats need more candidates, not less, so let her run along with at least a half-dozen others, and see who rises to the top. I'm still hoping my boy Sherrod Brown gives it heavy consideration, because the DNC desperately needs more Middle American representation.
What are the Dems thinking of in their hour of need?. Not much learned from 2016, was there ?. Now, they are lining up Kamala Harris, a coastal elite new favorite, to lead the charge in 2020. Where Hillary had neither the energy or interest to court working class votes in the heartland, Kamala Harris will further alienate these same voters and make no bones about doing so in the process.
Could we see a Kamala Harris / Keith Ellison DNC nomination for 2020?. Trump would be thanking the heavens and counting his blessings if that were to happen.
Donald Trump is a New York Billionaire who graduated from Penn and your attack on Kamala Harris is that she is a coastal elite
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