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Key Democratic donors back Harris but others warn against ‘coronation’
The Guardian (UK) ^ | Mon 22 Jul 2024 | Callum Jones and Lauren Gambino

Posted on 07/22/2024 7:43:22 AM PDT by Salman

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Harris is the “right person at the right time” and well-positioned to “push back” against Donald Trump, according to Reid Hoffman, the tech billionaire who co-founded LinkedIn. Alexander Soros, son of financier and philanthropist George Soros, described her as the “best and most qualified candidate we have”.

Hoffman and Soros had been vocal in their support of Biden in recent weeks, even as calls grew from him to exit the race.

But Reed Hastings, the Netflix co-founder and Democratic mega-donor, was among those who urged the president to stand down. On Sunday, he said only that party delegates “need to pick a swing-state winner”.

Vinod Khosla, the entrepreneur and investor, went further. “I want an open process at the convention and not a coronation,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “The key still is who can best beat Trump above all other priorities.”

John Morgan, a Florida lawyer and Biden donor, said he would not fundraise for the Harris campaign, telling ABC News: “If Trump World could pick anybody to run against, I think they pick her.”

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: billionaires; california; democrats; harris; kamalaharris; nancypelosi; plutocrats
Which billionaires like Harris, which do not?

No big surprises, but worth noting Harris is the Soros candidate.

1 posted on 07/22/2024 7:43:22 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

Depends what Deep State wants Maybe they think they can work with her. They probably have enough black mail material on her and her family.


2 posted on 07/22/2024 7:47:08 AM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in )
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To: Salman

I really don’t think America is going to easily accept having a Queen shoved down their throats by the Hollowoody Gay Folk and the retarded “media” clown show.


3 posted on 07/22/2024 7:47:34 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hi! I'm Fling. My pronouns are Dem, Deez and Doze. )
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To: Salman
The reality is that the Democrats had no other choice than to go with Harris. So, they are going to go all in, and make it seem like she was their first choice all along. In a short campaign, it's a tricky strategy, but it might work.

Hopefully, Trump will be all over this, because the media is going to go back to its Democrat propaganda mode.

She should not be underestimated.

4 posted on 07/22/2024 7:51:00 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: Salman

the “best and most qualified candidate we have”.

Hahahahahaha!


5 posted on 07/22/2024 8:00:20 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Israel, in order: https://freerepublic.com/tag/unclemiltieadventure/index)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“I really don’t think America is going to easily accept having a Queen shoved down their throats by the Hollowoody Gay Folk and the retarded “media” clown show.”

You have more faith in the American public than I do.


6 posted on 07/22/2024 8:00:41 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Salman

No matter who is in the WH next Jan., SHTF is coming.


7 posted on 07/22/2024 8:07:36 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Salman

It’s Time for Leadership

If Kamala Harris is selected as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, both Mr. Trump and Mrs. Harris will have standing and a duty to address the question posed by Art. II, §1, Cl. 5 natural-born citizen requirement.

This lawsuit would have nothing to do with Mrs. Harris’ competency or loyalty to fulfill her duties should she be elected to serve, but everything to do with the security of the Republic electing future presidents who may have divided loyalties from being born of non-citizen parents via 14A §1.

With our borders being overrun by foreigners, many from adversarial countries, the question of who is and who isn’t Art. II, Sec. I, Cl. 5 Natural-born Citizens must be addressed now while there is standing for the good of the nation.


8 posted on 07/22/2024 8:13:58 AM PDT by batazoid (Plainclothes cop at Capital during Jan 6 riot...)
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To: Salman

If Harris is the best they have, the Rats are in more trouble than I thought.
The few remaining tactical thinkers are almost in the grave and the village idiots running the show can’t even run their own lives.


9 posted on 07/22/2024 8:14:20 AM PDT by Zathras
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It’s over. Done. The coronation has more or less taken place. Kamala will be the nominee without winning anything. Democracy be damned.


10 posted on 07/22/2024 8:16:31 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: bigdaddy45

2024 is still young.

Anything is possible at this point.

Anything.


11 posted on 07/22/2024 8:19:16 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: cgbg; All

There is no way they won’t pick Kamala. It was ordained from the beginning.

Why was Joe Biden nominated in 2020? Black women in South Carolina. His candidacy was all but dead until he won that primary. And adding a “woman of color” (gag), Kamala, to the ticket was his payback for that victory.

There is no way on this earth that the main (and loudest) constituency of the Democrat party, black women, are going to put up with their girl getting pushed aside for anyone else, and heaven forbid a white man. Anyone paying even casual attention could see this coming from a mile away.


12 posted on 07/22/2024 8:23:05 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: batazoid

Never going to happen. Obama already set the precedent. Dream all you want but the odds of this issue being formally raised are zero.


13 posted on 07/22/2024 8:24:06 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: Salman

You have to admire the Dems’ timing. They’re shopping her around to see if she can at least draw more than flies like in the primary. It’s kind of like when Willie Brown took her for test spin. I don’t know why people discount Hillary. She’s got a month to check Obama and take back control. The kind of skullduggery required to pull this off, Hillary has in spades.


14 posted on 07/22/2024 8:24:13 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: cgbg

Yeah, it doesn’t add up - Alex Soros and Huma Abedin (Killary’s long-time friend and confidante) are supposed to be getting married. Yet he “supports” Kamala Harris? The game is afoot.


15 posted on 07/22/2024 8:25:36 AM PDT by reagandemocrat (Vote Dodger Blue. Vote Steve Garvey. )
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To: Salman

Harris is the closest thing to a guaranteed loser for the entire D ticket (which will be dragged down significantly if she’s on it).

And billionaires don’t like to finance losers.
They’ll find a couple of salable candidates for their President and Vice-President .... ideally, candidates with positive public images but NO public image would be a thousand times better than Harris, HilLIARy, Schuemer, Newsome, Michelle, or any of the others in their political stable.

Two people selected at random at the Jefferson-Trailways Bus Station, 1641 East Euclid Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50316 would run far more successfully than any of the “known” D politicians. Far better. And the billionaire funders of the D left KNOW THIS.

They’ll find a couple of non-controversial baseball or basketball players or movie actors who haven’t disgraced themselves talking about politics. They’ll then run this ticket as “representing real America” .. while telling the candidates to keep quiet and let the ad agencies handle the campaign. Sort of like how they ran Biden in 2020 while he hid out in his basement in Delaware.

we will see


16 posted on 07/22/2024 8:26:41 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: bigdaddy45

Before the debate there was no way they wouldn’t pick Joe Biden.

These folks move fast—and they have no rules.

They can stab somebody in the back or have an assassin go after them—with no warning.


17 posted on 07/22/2024 8:30:12 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: cgbg

Delegates can now choose who they want at their convention, no matter what anyone says, this is far from a sure lock for Harris at the top


18 posted on 07/22/2024 9:25:43 AM PDT by baclava
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