Harris: A Look Forward

Harris will most likely be the Dem nominee unless there is some amazing theatrics at the convention (I can only hope it would be interesting)…..so now is the time to see what is happening in Kamala’s world…..

As long as ‘Uncle Joe’ stayed in the race donors were pulling back….and now that he has bowed out how does the bribe money look for the Dem candidate?

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign says it raised a stunning $81 million in the 24 hours after President Biden dropped his reelection bid and endorsed her. The Harris campaign says it is the largest 24-hour fundraising haul in the history of presidential elections, CBS News reports. According to the campaign, more than 888,000 donors were involved and 60% of them were making a donation for the first time in this election cycle.

Democratic donors opened their wallets after President Biden closed the door on his reelection bid. Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign says she raised more than $50 million in less than 24 hours after Biden quit the race and endorsed her, the New York Times reports. The ActBlue donation-processing portal says that around $50 million in donations for Harris received by 5am Eastern were part of a larger haul of more than $80 million for Democratic candidates after Biden’s announcement.

How nice eager interests buying the person who can do the most for them.

If she is the nominee how will she handle the Trump machine?

Will she attack or be the typical Dem?

As Kamala Harris consolidates her position to be the Democratic nominee in quick fashion, strategists in both parties already are feeling out what a race between the vice president and Donald Trump might look like. Coverage:

  • Three words: A story at CNN based on interviews with more than a dozen Harris advisers and allies suggests the VP’s strategy could be summed up succinctly as “prosecutor versus felon.” Harris served as San Francisco’s district attorney before becoming a senator, and she played up the “prosecutor for president” angle in her own 2020 run.
  • Six words: In an appearance on the Morning Joe show, former Obama adviser David Plouffe suggested a campaign message that struck the same chord with three extra words: “She’s a prosecutor. He’s a criminal.” Plouffe also suggested a Harris campaign could immediately flip the he’s-too-old card on Trump, who would be the oldest candidate ever nominated, per Mediaite.
  • Against Harris: The Trump campaign and allied super PACs will attempt to tie Harris to high inflation and unpopular border policies, reports the Wall Street Journal. A video on the latter already is out. Republicans also are playing up the narrative that Harris misled the public about Biden’s fitness to serve. A video on that is out as well, tagged, “Kamala was in on it.” Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been among the prominent Republicans pushing that narrative. “The number one question that she’s going to have to answer now is, why did she lie to the American public?” McCarthy said on Fox.
  • Against Harris, II: A post at Popular Information has more details on the expected lines of attack against the vice president.
  • As a prosecutor: The Trump team will be scouring Harris’ record as district attorney for attack points, but it’s complicated. As the Washington Post notes, she was criticized by Democrats in her 2020 race—amid the fallout from the George Floyd killing and Black Lives Matters protests—for her “tough-on-crime” policies. In 2024, however, a tough-on-crime message might resonate more against an opponent who happens to be a “convicted felon,” per the Post. Her prosecutorial skill of understanding both sides of an argument in order to “unpack” it for a jury should help her as well, an ally says.

Attack, attack!  But will it be enough?  Keep in mind she will be dealing with a proven dick and liar and a con man partner.

News came out as I was writing this draft that Harris has the ‘votes’ she needs to secure the nomination….

Vice President Kamala Harris has secured the support of enough Democratic delegates to become her party’s nominee against Republican Donald Trump, according to an AP survey, as top Democrats rallied to her in the aftermath of President Joe Biden’s decision to drop his bid for reelection. Several state delegations met late Monday to confirm their support for Harris, including Texas and her home state of California. By Monday night, Harris had the support of well more than the 1,976 delegates she’ll need to win on a first ballot, according to the AP tally. No other candidate was named by a delegate contacted by the AP, and no major Democrat has announced plans to challenge Harris.

The AP tally is based on interviews with individual delegates, public statements from state parties, many of which have announced that their delegations are supporting Harris en masse, and public statements and endorsements from individual delegates. Still, the AP is not calling Harris the new presumptive nominee. That’s because the convention delegates are still free to vote for the candidate of their choice at the convention in August or if Democrats go through with a virtual roll call ahead of that gathering in Chicago.

Indeed, despite Harris being overwhelmingly favored, the Democratic Party plans to push forward with a virtual roll call, the rules of which will be approved at a convention rules committee meeting Wednesday. But the AP saw a draft, which indicates Harris, and any other potential Democrat willing to challenge her, will be required to submit 300 electronic signatures from convention delegates, not more than 50 of whom can be from the same state. The vice president, and any other candidate qualifying, would then have a few days to lobby delegates for their support before a virtual vote is held, possibly as soon as Aug. 1. Multiple rounds could be required, but the process would be completed no later than Aug. 7—or 12 days before the party’s convention begins.

I am a international relations voter and Kamala’s record here is spotty and dismal in my opinion.

Since Gaza is on-going her blindness is typical of someone who has money shoved in their pocket by AIPAC.

Harris has been a staunch supporter of Israel for years. In 2017 she addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) annual conference and reminded attendees that the first resolution she co-sponsored as a senator was aimed at combating “anti-Israel bias” at the United Nations.

“Let me be clear about what I believe. I stand with Israel because of our shared values, which are so fundamental to the founding of both our nations,” she told the crowd.

“The vast majority of people understand the importance of the State of Israel,” she added later. “Both in terms of its history and its present in terms of being a source of inspiration on so many issues, which I hope we will talk about, and also what it means in terms of the values of the United States and those values that are shared values with Israel, and the importance of fighting to make sure that we protect and respect a friend, one of the best friends we could possibly have.”

That is a paid endorsement.

Nothing about what Israel is doing is a shared principle of the US and especially the Founders.

But people want me to disregard everything I believe in and hold my nose and vote for someone that would not represent anything I hold dear.

That is the question I must answer for myself….and I will write about my decision.

Of course some Red State idiot has files articles of impeachment against Harris….

Kamala Harris is even more of a target now that she’s the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, so perhaps it’s not surprising that a House Republican on Tuesday filed articles of impeachment against her. Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee added to articles already filed against the vice president, the Hill reports. His new article claims Harris “knowingly misled the people of the United States and the Congress of the United States, principally to obfuscate the physical and cognitive well-being of the President of the United States, Joe Biden.” He says she should be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, though Fox LA reports he did not give specific examples of alleged crimes. Forbes calls it a “political stunt” that is unlikely to have any impact.

The original article of impeachment, which has not gone anywhere after being introduced in June of last year, takes issue with Harris on immigration. It claims she “willfully and systematically refused to uphold the immigration laws, failed to control the border to the detriment of national security, compromised public safety, and violated the rule of law, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.” In a statement announcing his move, Ogles said Tuesday that Harris “has disgraced the Office of the Vice President and willfully disregarded her oath to uphold and defend the Constitution,” and says she should invoke the 25th amendment to remove Biden from office because he is “mentally and physically” unfit.

These idiots never get tired of playing games so they do not have to do any actual work…..and people vote for them…..amazing!

As a PSA I will write about her, Harris,  political side since she is pretty much an unknown factor as of right now….look for it.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

4 thoughts on “Harris: A Look Forward

  1. She is going to get attacked, as we say here, ‘From arsehole to breakfast time’, so I hope she’s ready for that. Vance is already calling her a ‘childless cat-lady’ and there will be much worse to come. I still can’t help thinking they left it too late, and that Trump will win anyway. They need him to self-destruct by doing and saying things that will bring him down by his own doing. I’m no fan of Harris, but she still qualifies (as Biden did) as ‘Better than Trump’.

    Best wishes, Pete.

  2. To me a terrible mistake she is making is insisying on going on a ticket that Trump is a convicted felon and at the same time says loves Biden who said he loves his sone deeply and unconditionally even though he is a convicted felon also. Such stuff does not sit well because it says she has double standards when it coes t felons. I know BIden is not to be blamed for his son’s crimes but hey when he says he loves him unconditionally etc then the whole felon thing should just be left out of the race.

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