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Kamala Harris set to toss hat into presidential ring: Sources
KCBS ^ | January 10, 2019 | Doug Sovern

Posted on 01/10/2019 12:41:37 PM PST by KingofZion

Sen. Kamala Harris has decided to seek the 2020 Democratic nomination for president, sources close to her told KCBS Radio. She'll announce her candidacy on or around Martin Luther King Day, probably at a campaign rally in Oakland, the sources said.

*** Even though Harris has alluded to a 2020 presidential campaign in interviews to promote her new memoir, aides said before the book rollout began that no formal announcement about her political future is expected before the first wave of the book tour concludes later this month.

But several sources with knowledge of her plans said she has in fact decided to run, with the enthusiastic blessing of her husband and two stepchildren.

The debate within her camp has been how, and where, to launch her campaign. The tentative plan is for Harris to enter the race with a campaign rally in the city where she was born and began her legal career.

*** Harris' team wants maximum exposure for her campaign kickoff, and has been scouting for a telegenic location that could give her a "Springfield moment" akin to Barack Obama's campaign launch in 2007 at the Old State Capitol in Illinois.

Harris' advisers want to avoid identifying her too closely with San Francisco, where she first made her political mark as a two-term district attorney.

"San Francisco is viewed as a very nutty place by people outside of California, and frankly, by a lot of people inside California," Sragow said.

Berkeley, where Harris was raised before her parents divorced and she moved with her mother and sister to Montreal, Canada, has also been dismissed by her strategists as not projecting the image they're looking for.

That leaves Oakland, where Harris was born, and where she returned after law school to become a deputy district attorney ...

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: anchorbaby; kameltoe; nbc
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To: Rumplemeyer

That didn’t seem to bother the Halfrican usurper Obunghole.


21 posted on 01/10/2019 12:59:26 PM PST by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: KingofZion

Did her parents ever become US citizens? Or will she use Barry as precedent?


22 posted on 01/10/2019 12:59:41 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: a little elbow grease

Oh well, the law didn’t matter in 2008 and in 2012.

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Exactly. If it mattered, she already would have been told by the Dems that she was ineligible, don’t bother clogging up the field of candidates.


23 posted on 01/10/2019 12:59:49 PM PST by Qiviut (McCain & Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMP!)
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To: DesertRhino
"A female Obama, with all the charm of a bitter ex-wife."

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Well said.

At the Kavanaugh hearing her condescending questions and general tone were gross. She needed a verbal slapdown.

24 posted on 01/10/2019 1:00:37 PM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: KingofZion

Kamala/Toss = Willie Brown’s salad.


25 posted on 01/10/2019 1:02:48 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: WashingtonFire
Is this the lady who let a(n)sic 80 year old man bang her so she could get a senate seat?

Her MO is to bang men for advancement but I think she will be worn out by the time she gets to the primaries. She makes the women that pulled trains look like virgins.

26 posted on 01/10/2019 1:06:33 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: KingofZion

Kamala looked really stupid in the Kavanaugh hearings!

She’s not Presidential material at all!! PHOOEY!!!!


27 posted on 01/10/2019 1:10:36 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Rumplemeyer
DOES NOT MEET THE REQUIREMENTS TO RUN FOR OFFICE

That's an opinion, not a fact. Many agree with you, but since she is a U.S. Citizen and was born in the United States, she was not required to be naturalized as a U.S. Citizen. Since we only have two classes of Citizens: Natural Born and Naturalized, she fits into the latter.

If she is nominated and is placed on the ballot by the several States, you can bet the the courts will not touch this issue with a ten foot pole. They will break out the popcorn and watch while they let the voters sort it out.

28 posted on 01/10/2019 1:12:33 PM PST by centurion316
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To: Rumplemeyer

A lot of people typed in all caps about Bathhouse Barry not meeting the requirements.

It didn’t much back then.


29 posted on 01/10/2019 1:13:41 PM PST by TexasGurl24
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To: KingofZion
"Kamala Harris set to toss hat into presidential ring: Sources"

Will that be a she tosses in...?

30 posted on 01/10/2019 1:18:15 PM PST by moovova
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To: KingofZion

Does she even wear a hat? Isn’t “tossing your hat” sexist?


31 posted on 01/10/2019 1:19:49 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Blue House Sue; KingofZion

“With an early California Democratic Primary, Harris has to be considered a favorite”

11% (winner take all) of the 50%+1 delegates needed for the nomination are to be had in CA on Super Tuesday 2020.

Yes, she’s an early favorite...at least.

The fact she is liked by Obama, black and female gets her much closer.

He only obstacle is she’s dumb as a rock.

All in all, she’s likely to win the nomination.


32 posted on 01/10/2019 1:23:55 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: a little elbow grease

“The asshat is ineligible to be President. “

Nobody cares about the silly rules. She was born here.

That will be UNIVERSALLY accepted as adequate.


33 posted on 01/10/2019 1:25:41 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: KingofZion

Is she a natural born citizen?


34 posted on 01/10/2019 1:28:44 PM PST by nikos1121
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To: central_va

“I can’t believe posters on Free Republic are taking her seriously. SHE IS A JOKE.”

She’s already been elected to the Senate by millions of Californians.

Only a fool would not take her seriously.


35 posted on 01/10/2019 1:29:06 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: MeganC
Only a fool would not take her seriously.

Oh God the FR hand wringers are out already!!!LOL

36 posted on 01/10/2019 1:30:21 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: KingofZion; pookie18
HARRIS-HAT-RING
37 posted on 01/10/2019 1:31:20 PM PST by FrankR (Make America Great Again, and Keep It That Way.)
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To: KingofZion

She’s NOT, I repeat, she is NOT a natural born citizen of the United States.

https://www.thepostemail.com/2018/08/19/is-kamala-harris-eligible-to-be-president/


38 posted on 01/10/2019 1:32:01 PM PST by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Caramel is eligible simply by being AA, and by having a front hole. Do not doubt me. Oh, most importantly, Caramel hates Trump.


39 posted on 01/10/2019 1:34:54 PM PST by gathersnomoss (Grace and Dignity Will Win The Day)
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To: central_va

I’m a hand wringer because I won’t automatically write off a black Democrat Presidential contender who’s a freshman Senator?

Yeah, so the last time you wrote off such a person tell me how that worked out for you?

Hmmm?


40 posted on 01/10/2019 1:36:25 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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