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The Inevitability of Kamala Harris
usnews.com ^ | David Catanese

Posted on 12/01/2017 3:20:05 PM PST by RoosterRedux

For a couple of hours on a recent Thursday, Sen. Kamala Harris of California became the favorite to win the Democratic Party's 2020 presidential nomination.

According to the oddsmakers, that is.

PredictIt, a website that allows election junkies to place real money behind their political prognostications, has been asking thousands of its traders who they think will be the party's next White House standard-bearer. Harris, just entering her 12th month as a senator, has remained among the top three candidates since the market opened Aug. 30.

The trio of other front-runners – Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and former Vice President Joe Biden – are no surprise given their well-established national followings.

It's the 53-year-old Harris who has rocketed up the chain of fresh possibilities this year, as she's been feted by elite donors, fawned over by the Democratic establishment and elevated by a smitten national press corps.

As the cultural and ideological antidote to the current president, her ascension was almost inevitable. But it's also been in motion for years.

Ever since she stepped into the public arena, Harris has been bathed in great expectations. When he was president of NBC Universal, CNN's Jeff Zucker broke his policy of supporting candidates and introduced her to New York power players as "important for the entire country."

Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa predicted in August that "she's going to be knocking on doors in Iowa." In defending her against liberal critics in September, Hillary Clinton singled Harris out as one of her "favorite Democrats." Later that month, Gwainevere Catchings Hess, president of The Black Women's Agenda, introduced Harris at a luncheon as "the unsilenced, the uncensored, the unstoppable."

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KEYWORDS: 2020demprimary; kamala2020; kamalaharris; womanpresident
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Kamala has the blush of the rose. She's the one the Dems will put forward.

She's a commie, but she is Satan's chosen...heehee.

1 posted on 12/01/2017 3:20:05 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Another first term senator?


2 posted on 12/01/2017 3:22:28 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: RoosterRedux

After obozo and HilLIARy, The D’s need to nominate someone credible if they want to have even a ghost of a chance. This one ain’t it


3 posted on 12/01/2017 3:22:35 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” - Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: RoosterRedux

I thought Hillary was inevitable.


4 posted on 12/01/2017 3:22:55 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: RoosterRedux

She’ll never win outside of California. Her opponents just have to bring up Kate Steinle every single time.


5 posted on 12/01/2017 3:23:10 PM PST by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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To: RoosterRedux

If they take down Trump, all bets are off...


6 posted on 12/01/2017 3:23:19 PM PST by heights
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To: RoosterRedux

I think they have 2 or 3 Dossiers on her ready to go ,LOL


7 posted on 12/01/2017 3:23:29 PM PST by butlerweave
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It will be Trump vs Kam in 2020.

Take a good look at that face. She is the One to represent the side of evil in 2020.

8 posted on 12/01/2017 3:23:45 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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Kamala Harris is NOT eligible to run for President.


9 posted on 12/01/2017 3:24:04 PM PST by Lopeover ( The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: RoosterRedux

She pole danced to the top of the political spectrum on Willie Brown’s lap.


10 posted on 12/01/2017 3:24:10 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Eggsactly. That’s the Demo formula.


11 posted on 12/01/2017 3:24:49 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Lopeover

Obama broke that glass ceiling. She just has to waltz through it.


12 posted on 12/01/2017 3:25:47 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Indian-Jamaican-American.

Not a natural born citizen.


13 posted on 12/01/2017 3:26:26 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lopeover

Kamala Harris is NOT eligible to run for President

just like Obama ,LOL


14 posted on 12/01/2017 3:26:39 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Azeem

She has the support of the hard Left. She is a goddess to them.


15 posted on 12/01/2017 3:26:42 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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Kamala Harris is NOT eligible to run for President.

Do tell us why not. And please remove your tin-foil hat before doing so.

16 posted on 12/01/2017 3:26:57 PM PST by ssaftler ("Tolerant liberals" is an oxymoron.)
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gagging at the thought...please no.


17 posted on 12/01/2017 3:28:15 PM PST by MarMema (I now choose to live my life as a heterosexual married woman)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

You’re a birther. ;-)


18 posted on 12/01/2017 3:28:34 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Will Brown is 83. I’m guessing he’ll be gone by the time she’s there.


19 posted on 12/01/2017 3:28:36 PM PST by stylin19a
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To: RoosterRedux

Yet another reason to promote Calexit.


20 posted on 12/01/2017 3:28:56 PM PST by MarMema (I now choose to live my life as a heterosexual married woman)
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