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kleinbl00  ·  1324 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In Historic Pick, Joe Biden Taps Kamala Harris To Be His Running Mate

    She will alienate the far left, due to her AG role.

    Her experience as AG in the most populous state in the union is a deep mine of "tough on crime" stories that can be whipped out on demand to assuage the center-right that she's a Crime and Punishment champion.

For some reason people know that Chicago is dirty AF but despite Hollywood making roughly eight movies per year about corrupt Los Angeles politicians, nobody has figured out what a grifting shithole California politics is. Nobody who successfully runs for dog catcher in California can survive a purity test. however, if you can get shit done in that environment it means you can survive a back room.

Since her nomination I have gotten four emails from the Trump campaign calling her a radical socialist that's soft on crime. And I mean, Govtrack considers her the fourth least conservative senator in the US.





goobster  ·  1323 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Some Canadian wag demonstrated that Kamala Harris would be the farthest right elected leader in Canada.

I'm good with her. No leftie is going to NOT vote for Biden because of Harris. But she can definitely make inroads into the highly conservative Hispanic community, and the Mournful Right, who miss the pre-Cheney days of the Republican party.