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Why Kamala Harris Hasn’t Caught Fire in the Democratic 2020 Race
Mercury News ^ | September 3, 2019 | Sahil Kapur

Posted on 09/03/2019 12:52:15 PM PDT by tom h

Kamala Harris entered the presidential race with impressive credentials -- a popular black woman with an inspiring story who hailed from a large Democratic state and drew accolades for her fiery questioning of President Donald Trump’s nominees.

Yet despite a shot of adrenaline after confronting front-runner Joe Biden in the first debate, she has failed to catch fire with Democratic voters who are torn between a nostalgic fondness for Biden and a revolutionary desire for Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.

Harris’s attempt to replicate her feat in the second debate backfired among Democrats who say she went too negative on Biden. The Californian also suffers from a perception that she lacks a deep ideological well to guide her policy ideas, in contrast to her three main rivals who are better-defined. And her past as a prosecutor has earned her supporters and detractors ...

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: 2020; california; cmoniwannalayaharris; dicklessmorris; dickmorris; hawaii; horizontalharris; hotlipsharris; india; isshealegalcandidate; jamaica; kamalaharris; notnaturalborn; notqualified; sleepingherway2top; tulsigabbard; williebrownsharlot; williebrownswhore
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To: tom h
Why Kamala Harris Hasn’t Caught Fire in the Democratic 2020 Race

Cause we quit burning witches at the stake in 1624?


41 posted on 09/03/2019 1:18:33 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: rlmorel

Well, there’s that, but also - Senators make poor Presidential candidates and worse Presidents. And, since New York and California no longer have competitive elections, Senators from those states have no experience with competition.


42 posted on 09/03/2019 1:18:35 PM PDT by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: tom h

I have this suspicion that a lot of black MEN would vote for a Klansman before they would ever vote for a black woman.


43 posted on 09/03/2019 1:20:43 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: cotton1706

“Two words: Tulsi Gabbard!”

I still think Tulsi is going to be the nominee.


44 posted on 09/03/2019 1:21:10 PM PDT by setter
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To: tom h

Isn’t she an anchor baby - her Mom’s from India and her Dad’s from Jamaica? Has the country completely stepped away from the NBC definition and requirement to become President?


45 posted on 09/03/2019 1:21:12 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: setter

Won’t be Tulsi.

She is way too conservative for the Dem Base of 2020.
She’s practically a Republican to their way of thinking.

Plus she kneecapped their chosen Black Marxist in a televised debate. For that she will be punished. Severely.

Oh, no. It won’t be Tulsi.


46 posted on 09/03/2019 1:22:46 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: tom h

The old mattress isn’t cratering, but she is going nowhere...

She has no appeal, other than to guilty overeducated whites who feel guilty about everything....

Kamala thought she’d have it in the bag, being a black woman she’s the identity politics wet dream this cycle... oh if only she were a lesbian too...

However she going nowhere, and fast.

It is interesting, because no one has won the democratic nomination without winning the black vote in the primaries since they started tracking it in 1976... Kamala, by identity politics logic, should have that vote locked up.. yet she doesn’t.

She’s got more support among the guilty white democrat voter than she does among the black democratic voter.... She’s not expanding her base at all.. If she sticks around long enough she may as some of the lesser folks disappear.

Basically she need a WIN or very big showing somewhere early in the primary cycle... SC is the most likely bet.. If she holds on until Feb next year, and she’s not polling bad enough that she won’t be on the stage, so I would expect her to hang around. If she comes out of SC as a winner or close, she may have a shot.. if not, she likely won’t get anywhere...

My bet is she will likely do well in NH as well, a lot of guilty white liberals up there.... which may give her some buzz and news cycles to have a shot in SC.. But if she doesn’t do well in SC she’s just another also ran.


47 posted on 09/03/2019 1:22:52 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: 43north

Blowing Willie Brown is not an inspiring story.


48 posted on 09/03/2019 1:22:56 PM PDT by woodenickel
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To: SERKIT
Has the country completely stepped away from the NBC definition and requirement to become President?

Isn't the answer obviously "yes"?


49 posted on 09/03/2019 1:23:40 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: rlmorel

Which is dumber? A sack of hammers or a box of rocks? Know any other comparisons?


50 posted on 09/03/2019 1:23:57 PM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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To: lgjhn23

She’s the ‘Drugs, Sex, and Rock’n’Roll’ candidate: Pot smoker, Willie Brown slurper, Snoop Dogg hip-hopper.


51 posted on 09/03/2019 1:25:30 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: tom h

She’s law enforcement.

Democrats hate law enforcement.


52 posted on 09/03/2019 1:25:43 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: tom h

she would be extremely hard for the DNC to sell to the American voters, given her ineligibility (been there, done that, ain’t gonna make same mistake twice!), wacko commie leftist leanings, and sordid background.
its one thing to float a name and face... its quite another thing to sell it over a long campaign where information about the candidate would definitely be made public

I therefore believe that the DNC/SorozNazi Club will find a saleable candidate (I’ve speculated it will be a well-known, likeable movie/tv actor or sports figure, someone who already has name and face recognition and is liked by millions of people) we will see...


53 posted on 09/03/2019 1:26:22 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: tom h

I don’t know.
I think a whore is a perfect figurehead for the Democrat party.


54 posted on 09/03/2019 1:26:32 PM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Won’t be Tulsi.
She is way too conservative for the Dem Base of 2020.”

I really don’t believe the Dem base is the far left squad types. The squad have talen over twitter but not the average dem. Dems will have to go to the center to get elected. A small amount of very far left liberal have taken over the party but they are gonna be pushed out soon. Already happening to the squad.


55 posted on 09/03/2019 1:27:58 PM PDT by setter
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To: tom h

She’s an anchor baby!!!!


56 posted on 09/03/2019 1:28:06 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: tallyhoe

“She’s an anchor baby!!!!”

This works too:

“She’s an anchor, baby!!!!”


57 posted on 09/03/2019 1:31:09 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: editor-surveyor

Were life jackets an issue? The limited coverage I’ve seen made it seem like a death trap in a fire, regardless of life jackets.


58 posted on 09/03/2019 1:31:10 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: tom h
My experience in the Army is that a 55 gal drum half full of that requires about a gallon of diesel fuel to burn.....just sayin'.

(PS Don't stand down wind when it's burning. You will never get the smell out of your fatigues.)

59 posted on 09/03/2019 1:36:05 PM PDT by Freeborn
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To: 3boysdad
LOL, I keep two graphics on hand and use them interchangeably...

I tend to go with rocks being dumber because hammers have a purpose, but then...so do rocks!

60 posted on 09/03/2019 1:38:01 PM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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