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Harris's baggage

Let me count the ways:

1. She is sorta African American.
https://reason.com/volokh/2020/08/11/is-kamala-harris-legally-african-american-indian-both-neither-or-something-else/
Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's pick to be the Democratic Party's vice-presidential nominee, is the daughter of an Indian immigrant mother and a Jamaican immigrant father. Her father, as I understand it, has ancestors of both European and African origin

2. She certainly put a lot of black in prison.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-24/kamala-harris-california-crime
Under both Republicans and Democrats — including Kamala Harris, who became a prosecutor in 1990 — a tough-on-crime political culture flourished in California, and African Americans were hit hardest: Their incarceration rate remains more than five times their share of California’s population.

The crackdown on crime swept most of the country, but California stood out as one of the most aggressive states. Only recently has it begun shedding its lock-’em-up mind-set.
In the 2020 presidential race, the disproportionate imprisonment of African American men has become a major issue, and it’s posing an especially big challenge for Harris, California’s first black U.S. senator. She is counting on strong support from African Americans. But many black voters are wary of her 27 years as a prosecutor enforcing laws that sent African Americans to prison.


3. She proposed bail relief for terrorists.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/blue-city-cops-say-kamala-harris-helped-killers-rapists-warn-disaster-she-becomes-president
"She has loudly and proudly supported bail reform and has even donated and encouraged other people to donate to a fund that helped get murderers, rapists, people who were shooting people in the streets, out on bail," he said. "We're not talking about helping bail out the mom who stole a candy bar from the store to help feed her kids; we're talking about violent criminals."
Gamaldi said bail reform has not worked in "any urban community."

"It is what has led to 16 American cities experiencing the highest murder rate in recorded history back in 2020-2021," he said. "And we're still living with the fallout of that.

"Over the last three years in the United States, we've averaged over 20,000 homicides a year, and we haven't seen those numbers since the mid 1990s," he said. "And now we're going to have Vice President Harris, who is the presumptive nominee at this point, is going to run on a platform of supporting bail reform after seeing the horrific consequences we've seen in our urban communities."


4. Her job as Border Czar has been a disaster.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/6-house-dems-vote-gop-condemn-kamala-harris-border-czar-role

[c=BF0000]The House of Representatives voted along bipartisan lines to condemn Vice President Kamala Harris' handling of the U.S.' southern border, the first piece of legislation targeting Harris since she became the Democrats' presumptive 2024 nominee.

Six Democrats joined all Republicans in voting for the measure, which passed 220-196.

The House Democrats who voted for the resolution are Reps. Jared Golden, D-Maine; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash.; Mary Peltola, D-Alaska; Henry Cuellar, D-Texas; Don Davis, D-N.C.; and Yadira Caraveo, D-Colo.
For years, Republicans have accused Harris of failing her job as "border czar" after President Biden handed her the task of mitigating the "root causes" of illegal immigration in 2021.

It's quickly becoming the cornerstone of GOP-led attacks against Harris as she gears up for an expected head-to-head race with former President Trump. But the six moderate Democrats who voted to condemn Harris amount to a scathing rebuke of their party's likely presidential candidate — despite dozens of left-wing lawmakers rushing to endorse her.
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Bottom line, she is up against Trump, the GREATEST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY.

She is going to LOSE in a landslide.
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boudinMan · 61-69, M
and now, of course, the media is trying to say she was never the border czar... it's laughable beyond belief.
JSul3 · 70-79
@boudinMan Biden never christened her the 'Border Czar' as that was Greg Abbott and the right wing, seeking a scapegoat.

From Time Magazine:

The term, which Republicans has used widely to criticize Harris, traces back to March 2021, when Harris was charged with addressing the surge of Central American migrants, who came mostly from the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, where violence and organized crime have driven millions to flee the region. The terms “czar” and “border czar” did not appear in White House materials, but they caught on among critics.

Biden assigned her the task of determining the root causes of the mass migration.

The so-called "root causes strategy" focused on improving economic and security conditions by creating jobs, combating corruption, improving human and labor rights, and reducing violence. Harris allocated funds for humanitarian relief from natural disasters, and directed more than 10 million COVID-19 vaccines to the Northern Triangle countries. She held bilateral meetings with the region's leaders, as well as meetings with NGOs, business executives and human rights advocates. She worked with the U.S. Justice Department to launch an Anti-Corruption task force focused on prosecuting corruption cases with ties to the region, as well as Anti-Migrant Smuggling task forces in Mexico and Guatemala.
boudinMan · 61-69, M
@JSul3 from USA Today:

Some of the media’s largest players are proving their newfound devotion to Harris by attempting to rewrite her past – and some of their own coverage.
Yes, it’s as Orwellian as it sounds. And it’s a little too close to the tactics used by the Soviets to simply “erase” opponents from photographs. Don’t like someone – or something that happened? Hit delete.

Was Harris in charge of the border – or wasn't she?
Shortly after Biden took office in 2021, the president appointed Harris to “lead the White House effort to tackle the migration challenge at the U.S. southern border and work with Central American nations to address root causes of the problem.”

At least that’s how The Associated Press reported the story at the time.

Biden made the announcement following a surge of migrants at the southern border after he had become president. He also said of Harris in this new role: “When she speaks, she speaks for me.”

Sounds like a pretty darn important job to me.

That’s why many in the news media started referring to Harris’ big task as “border czar,” including me, even though that technically wasn’t her official title. Anyone in Washington knows that people put in positions of power like this are commonly referred to as “czars.” It's a phrase that dates at least to 1989, when President George H.W. Bush appointed William Bennett to be his "drug czar."

Yet now, accurately referring to Harris’ vital undertaking has become a huge no-no.

Since Harris failed to address anything to do with immigration (the number of illegal border crossings continued to skyrocket during the Biden administration until recently), she quietly was removed from that position and has turned to other things like visiting abortion clinics and fighting Islamophobia.

Harris bothered to visit the border only once – and only after being shamed in an interview for not having done so.

To cover for her shortfalls, the news media is now desperately seeking to rewrite history.

One glaring example is from Axios. In 2021, the outlet reported that “Biden puts Harris in charge of border crisis.” Another story used the phrase “border czar.”

Fast-forward to this week, and Axios is acting shocked that anyone would refer to Harris in this way, claiming that she was given only a “slice” of the crisis to combat. To make matters worse, Axios added an editor’s note to the recent article, stating: “This article has been updated and clarified to note that Axios was among the news outlets that incorrectly labeled Harris a ‘border czar’ in 2021.’”

While no “correction” was deemed necessary for three years, suddenly it’s a matter of incredible importance.

Many others in digital and television media are trying the same tactic.

It’s insulting.
JSul3 · 70-79
@boudinMan Not a single WH document states Harris as 'czar' of anything.
So GHWB assigned a 'drug czar.' Fine. When was GHWB POTUS?
This is 2024.

In the info you provided, "the media" latched on to this catchphrase....and the right wing carries the torch.

Harris was given zero authority to author or enforce border policy.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@boudinMan No one expects right wingers to believe anything, just because its true. It has to have been said at least twice on Fox or the Dear Leader has to have texted it out on his Holy Social media site. And you will all dies believing that. In 50 years time behavioural psychologists will be mining these sites and looking for the cause of this social disease afflicting so many Americans, and postulating that maybe fracking had sent toxic hydrocarbons into the water and caused a group madness, much like the lead in the plumbing of ancient Rome..😷
boudinMan · 61-69, M