What does Harris bring to the Biden ticket?

Mountainmanbob said:

Harris ran as an unapologetic liberal, taking radical positions on climate change, health care and guns, and showing weakness on law enforcement. Her commitments to eliminate private health insurance, ban fossil fuels, support sanctuary cities, and allow government funding of abortions puts her outside the mainstream of American politics.

She brings nothing to the ticket for true centrists or disaffected Republicans. She is more liberal than Biden, and that's saying a lot as Biden has spent the past year lurching and contorting himself to the left.

Harris is from California. Most of the country does not want to be like California. There was no drama for political observers who know Biden was already going to win in California. What Harris brings to the ticket is a mystery to most.

Jason Chaffetz: Kamala Harris, Biden's VP pick – here's what she brings to the ticket

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I'd expect no less from a Trump apologist ...

Mountainmanbob said:

Harris ran as an unapologetic liberal, taking radical positions on climate change, health care and guns, and showing weakness on law enforcement. Her commitments to eliminate private health insurance, ban fossil fuels, support sanctuary cities, and allow government funding of abortions puts her outside the mainstream of American politics.

She brings nothing to the ticket for true centrists or disaffected Republicans. She is more liberal than Biden, and that's saying a lot as Biden has spent the past year lurching and contorting himself to the left.

Harris is from California. Most of the country does not want to be like California. There was no drama for political observers who know Biden was already going to win in California. What Harris brings to the ticket is a mystery to most.

Jason Chaffetz: Kamala Harris, Biden's VP pick – here's what she brings to the ticket

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While she ran as weak on law enforcement, her time as attorney general was the polar opposite. She fought to lock everyone up and created a lot of enemies in the black community because of it. It's perhaps why she only got around 3% in the primary, she simply had no base. She isn't liberal enough for the socialist wing, she's too liberal for the centrists, blacks don't particularly care for her and she's from California.

Another ding against her is that she was awful at the dem debates. She attacked Biden (clips of which will no doubt be used by Trump) but in doing so didn't really land any serious punches. She's not going to do anything to boost Biden in her debate with Pence.

One final thought. Harris is the second black person nominated by the dems. I find it interesting that they still haven't managed to nominate a descendant of an American slave.

Is it because he wants the support of the blm movement?

Mountainmanbob said:

Harris ran as an unapologetic liberal, taking radical positions on climate change, health care and guns, and showing weakness on law enforcement. Her commitments to eliminate private health insurance, ban fossil fuels, support sanctuary cities, and allow government funding of abortions puts her outside the mainstream of American politics.

She brings nothing to the ticket for true centrists or disaffected Republicans. She is more liberal than Biden, and that's saying a lot as Biden has spent the past year lurching and contorting himself to the left.

Harris is from California. Most of the country does not want to be like California. There was no drama for political observers who know Biden was already going to win in California. What Harris brings to the ticket is a mystery to most.

Jason Chaffetz: Kamala Harris, Biden's VP pick – here's what she brings to the ticket

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She definitely isn't bringing anything good to the table. I know the left keeps holding her up as an African American like they did something good but from what she said in the past she is Asian American.

Harris told a local Asian/Pacific Islander political organization in Nevada that she hoped to become the first Asian American president,

Lost4words said:

Is it because he wants the support of the blm movement?

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He'd better be careful what he wishes for.

Mountainmanbob said:

We don't care for socialism.
Grandpa and dad fought against it.
They were right.
M

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Good ... neither Joe nor Kamala are socialists.

As for me, I don't prefer a dictatorship which gasses its own peacefully protesting citizens ...

Arc F1 said:

She definitely isn't bringing anything good to the table. I know the left keeps holding her up as an African American like they did something good but from what she said in the past she is Asian American.

Harris told a local Asian/Pacific Islander political organization in Nevada that she hoped to become the first Asian American president,

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She is both ...

Redwingfan9 said:

One final thought. Harris is the second black person nominated by the dems. I find it interesting that they still haven't managed to nominate a descendant of an American slave.

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Have the Republicans nominated anyone who is black ?

Mountainmanbob said:

Closest thing we got
real, real close.
M

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Whatever, Bob ...

Mountainmanbob said:

And maybe also whatever else she thinks that she needs to be.
M

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Possibly ... most American blacks are pretty mixed racially ...

Mountainmanbob said:

Not yet because, we respect one's qualifications.
M

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You think that's all it's been ... across 150 years ???

Mountainmanbob said:

Harris ran as an unapologetic liberal, taking radical positions on climate change, health care and guns, and showing weakness on law enforcement. Her commitments to eliminate private health insurance, ban fossil fuels, support sanctuary cities, and allow government funding of abortions puts her outside the mainstream of American politics.

She brings nothing to the ticket for true centrists or disaffected Republicans. She is more liberal than Biden, and that's saying a lot as Biden has spent the past year lurching and contorting himself to the left.

Harris is from California. Most of the country does not want to be like California. There was no drama for political observers who know Biden was already going to win in California. What Harris brings to the ticket is a mystery to most.

Jason Chaffetz: Kamala Harris, Biden's VP pick – here's what she brings to the ticket

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Somebody likes her.

Biden had his biggest fund-raising haul to-date ... after he selected her ...

A_Thinker said:

I'd expect no less from a Trump apologist ...

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If you wish, but by looking at the facts of the matter, we get the same result.

A_Thinker said:

Have the Republicans nominated anyone who is black ?

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No, although I have supported three black men running for President in the Republican Party. Alan Keyes in 2000, Herman Cain in 2012 and Ben Carson in 2016. The latter two I would have voted for but for them dropping out before my state voted.

I don't think the race or sex of a candidate matters in the least. What matters is their policy positions and their ability to govern effectively. Biden was foolish to back himself into a corner by saying he would nominate a woman. First off it was condescending to women, as though they wouldn't be qualified but for the special status he placed on them. Second, there were far more qualified men who would be much better running mates (Cuomo for example) than Harris. Picking people based on race and sex without regard to accomplishment puts Biden's credibility in serious doubt.