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Why Harris’s Barrier-Breaking Bid Feels Nothing Like Hillary Clinton’s
The New York Times ^ | Aug. 24, 2024, 5:06 a.m. ET | Katie Glueck

Posted on 08/24/2024 2:18:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

They still wear suffragist-white outfits and cheer on the prospect of “Madam President.”

But eight years after Hillary Clinton became the first woman to lead a major party’s presidential ticket, Democrats are sending American women a more sober and urgent message even as they try to elect another barrier-breaking candidate.

Republican policies, they argue, have had disastrous and once-unthinkable consequences for the health and autonomy of women and their families since the overturning of Roe v. Wade. A second term for former President Donald J. Trump, they warn, would be even more dangerous.

“Simply put,” Vice President Kamala Harris said this week from the stage of her party’s convention, “they are out of their minds.”

From the women who described harrowing pregnancies and their difficulties receiving medical care to Ms. Harris’s finale on Thursday night, the tone and emphasis were a radical departure from the optimistic feminism and chants of “I’m with her” that dominated Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 campaign.

“This is a time where the rights of women are fundamentally under attack as it relates to abortion, I.V.F., when and how to have a family,” said Senator Laphonza Butler, Democrat of California and a close Harris ally. “It’s not about minimizing the importance of race or gender. It is about appreciating that in this moment in the history of our country, this election is bigger than anybody’s race or gender.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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To: E. Pluribus Unum

All the news outlets said Thursday “tonight the historic nomination acceptance.”

Everything has to be “historic”.

Why don’t we feel thrilled?

Trump was the second President to have a name start with “T-R-U-M” and the first not to have once been a habberdasher in Missouri. Historic.


21 posted on 08/24/2024 3:22:49 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

First of all....Not one American has voted for her. So I don’t understand how she can even be a candidate.


22 posted on 08/24/2024 3:24:29 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (mY)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In 2023, the year after Roe was overturned, there were more abortions performed in the US than in any of the prior 10 years. Not that it’s anything to be proud of, but maybe Trump’s ads should mention that, because Harris’ campaign has tilted strongly to that issue in its ads.

Democrats are making an issue where there is none, unless they’re going for an even bigger record number of babies killed.


23 posted on 08/24/2024 3:32:27 PM PDT by MikeyB806
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Harris did/does nothing but be next in line ,LOL


24 posted on 08/24/2024 3:37:35 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Dilbert San Diego

AFAIK it is legal as long as the senator has a legal address in the state s/he represents. Remember how Mitt Romney represented Utah, though he spent so little time there he was known as Massachusetts Mitt?


25 posted on 08/24/2024 3:40:33 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"-Voltaire)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I suppose being the First Ho to run for Prez could be considered a barrier breaker.


26 posted on 08/24/2024 3:41:36 PM PDT by LastDayz (A Blunt and Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated.)
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To: cowboyusa

Yes


27 posted on 08/24/2024 3:49:15 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

More New York Slimes slime


28 posted on 08/24/2024 3:55:34 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

if the dem party wants a black female nominee

why not have a primary limited to black female candidates

pick the best one


29 posted on 08/24/2024 4:01:07 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: Dilbert San Diego

MAXINE WATERS HASN’T LIVED IN HER DISTRICT FOR YEARS


30 posted on 08/24/2024 4:33:20 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why are all your posts from the New York Times? Nobody cares


31 posted on 08/24/2024 4:44:32 PM PDT by Lod881019
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To: Lod881019
Why are all your posts from the New York Times? Nobody cares

Then how do you explain the dozens of responses, Einstein?

32 posted on 08/24/2024 4:45:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s Mr Einstein and once again nobody cares


33 posted on 08/24/2024 4:49:54 PM PDT by Lod881019
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Democrats think that since the overturn of Roe vs Wade abortion has been the key winning issue for them. Trump is running on the economy and immigration. Kamala is running on abortion and Trump. We’ll see who is right.


34 posted on 08/24/2024 5:05:03 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: Rummyfan

Very well put. Spot-on.


35 posted on 08/24/2024 5:13:58 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Republican policies, they argue, have had disastrous and once-unthinkable consequences for the health and autonomy of women and their families since the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Meaning that the Left makes abortion a major issue, and and rather than fighting back by demolishing their arguments for abortion on demand, then the GOP - or at least many "conservatives" - retreats, following a policy of appeasement under the premise that abortion is not a winning position (because they refuse to make it one), leaving the Left to do just that.

36 posted on 08/24/2024 6:03:49 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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