As Kamala Harris mulls whether to run for president again, she’s throwing herself into the midterms by campaigning with fellow Democrats, starting with a Tuesday trip to Michigan on behalf of Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.
It’s an especially notable destination for the former vice president. Michigan was one of seven battlegrounds she lost to Donald Trump two years ago, and it’s now one of six states that will start Democrats’ next presidential nominating process. Harris has additional rallies scheduled in Nevada and Georgia, two other key places on the political map.
Her campaigning could serve to solidify or undermine her status as a potential Democratic front-runner. Although she’s one of the nation’s best-known politicians and a barrier-breaking figure, there are others eager to turn the page after she failed to defeat Trump when she replaced President Joe Biden on the top of the ticket.
It aounds like you and I agree that progressive policies are a good idea and should be supported and pushed. However, the Kamala Harris campaign did not agree with us.
Kamala Harris claimed that she would be a friend to immigrants unlike the racist Republican party, but she also repeated racist talking points like the idea that fentanyl is a problem because of drug cartels sneaking it through the southern border. She claimed she would help the working class unlike the business subservient Republican party, but then promised to remove regulatory hurdles to enrich business owners. She claimed to care about the Palestinians dying in the middle east, but promised “unwavering commitment” and “ironclad support” for Isreal.
I voted for Kamala Harris because I knew how terrible a Trump presidency would be, but I am not surprised that many people stayed at home when Kamala Harris was advertising herself as Republican-lite. She spent all her time trying to court the mythical “Moderate Conservative” and completely ignored the people she could have easily won.
For somebody claiming they voted for Kamala and would again you sure do have a lot of shit to talk about her. I think the core difference between us is how little you realize the horrible evil which is the GOP that must be destroyed immediately before progress even becomes an option.
May the best candidate win the primary and when that happens may the USA fall in fucking line to avert catastrophe.
The core difference between our analysis of why Kamala Harris lost is in our understanding of people. I think Kamala Harris lost because she advertised herself as Republican-lite while you think she lost because people are stupid. I would argue that my analysis provides concrete changes that provide a pathway to a better future while your analysis expresses only despair and apathy. My changes require affecting about a hundred politicians while your changes require tens of millions of people suddenly awakening politically.
I think the reason you think that about Kamala Harris is because you’re so easily mislead by biased media shoved in your face instead of her actual campaign website.