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Team Harris will say (and has said) that there was no accusation of racism aimed at Biden at the last debate, that in fact Harris began her spiel about busing by saying to him specifically, “I do not believe you are a racist.” But that’s nonsense. That was Harris’s sly way of having her cake and eating it too, simultaneously avoiding calling Biden a racist while suggesting that the matter is in enough doubt that one might rightly hold an opinion on either side of it. It’s a debate, see, and what was suddenly being debated was whether the...

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., announced Saturday that she would invest $100 billion of federal money into housing assistance for black families as part of an effort to close the racial wealth gap in the United States if elected president. "After generations of discrimination, it’s time to give Black families a real shot at homeownership," Harris tweeted on Saturday. While appearing at Essence's Global Black Economic Forum, she emphasized the role of homeownership in driving the growth of wealth in the U.S. According to Harris' campaign, she would help 4 million homebuyers through down payment and closing-cost assistance -- granting up...

It was as if nice, old Joe Biden was out on the street begging for votes when Kamala Harris walked by with a 50-pound handbag and slammed him on the head. He didn’t recover immediately and might or might not make a comeback, but the day was hers, a triumph for fraudulent bullying. You know the actual facts, right? It was the second of two Democratic debates of 10 candidates each, and Harris, who had identified herself as the only black woman on the stage, said to Biden that she did not think he was a racist as she went...

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., announced Saturday that she would invest $100 billion of federal money into housing assistance for black families as part of an effort to close the racial wealth gap in the United States if elected president.

Joey Chestnut wins 12th Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest

The polls published since the conclusion of the first Democratic debates are unanimous: they show that the chief beneficiary was California Senator Kamala Harris. She delivered a body blow to former Vice-President Joe Biden, who previously had been riding high as the obvious frontrunner. Harris' most direct and successful attack on Biden was related to the issue of busing. Much as Harris wished to convey the impression that only a racist, or someone soft on racism, would take issue with busing, the truth is far more complicated. Starting in 1971, the Supreme Court authorized court-ordered desegregation programs involving the transportation...

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Sen. Kamala Harris said Wednesday that busing students should be considered by school districts trying to desegregate their locations - not the federal mandate she appeared to support in pointedly criticizing rival Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden last week. Harris had a breakthrough moment at the candidates’ first debate when she criticized Biden for his opposition to mandatory school busing when he was a senator in the 1970s. Harris said she benefited from busing as an elementary school student in Berkeley, California, in the early 1970s. “That’s where the federal government must step in,”...

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif, is ratcheting up her attacks against President Trump, referring to him on Wednesday as a "predator" during a campaign event in Iowa. "I took on successfully, and I prosecuted the big banks, when they preyed on homeowners," Harris said, touting her record as attorney general of California. "I've prosecuted the pharmaceutical companies when they preyed on seniors. I have prosecuted transactional criminal organizations when they preyed on women and children. “I know predators, and we have one living in the White House."

Don Lemon Attacks April Ryan Over Kamala’s Blackness… Democrats Eat Their Own… Highly entertaining clip as Don Lemon and April Ryan argue over Kamala’s blackness…

She promises to scare away white suburban voters such as those who backed Democrats in 2018. Busing? We’re really going to talk about busing? In 2019? What else does Kamala Harris have in mind? Mood-ring subsidies? A federal bureau of pet rocks? Is she going to create a strategic reserve of polyester bell-bottoms? It was reasonable, even amusing, for Senator Harris to bring up busing during the Democratic-party debate last Thursday. She needed a blunt instrument with which to wallop Joe Biden upside the head, preferably while inserting herself into the narrative as the woebegone victim of his benighted policies....