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Kamala Harris Endorsed By President Biden, The Clintons, Congressional Black Caucus (atlantatribune.com)

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From the Atlanta Tribune:

VP Kamala Harris has been endorsed by several key figures in the Democratic Party. On the day President Joe Biden announced that he will no longer seek re-election, Harris picked up key endorsements. In his most recent statement, Biden said, “My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris […]

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[–] expatriado 15 points 1 month ago

and my axe!

[–] slickgoat 8 points 1 month ago

And as of five minutes ago, Nancy Pelosi.

[+] [email protected] -29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Might have picked someone who doesn't have such a... shady history... with the prison industrial complex.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is this FUD, or do you have specific concerns with her time as a prosecutor?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Her focus on misdemeanors and low level crimes and gloating about locking up a shitload of poor people for being consumed by the machine designed to do so… is one of them. All this while doing nothing against the record levels of white collar crime and wage theft.

Her husband stating college protests to end the genocide in Palestine are “antisemitism” is another.

Shall I go on?

[–] Wilzax 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree she's a suboptimal candidate. However I am more hopeful for her chances over anyone else's at beating Trump into the ground, and I am willing to see how she's changed since her days as a prosecutor.

The general public 15 years ago had a very different attitude towards cracking down on crime, including nonviolent crimes, than they do today. I'm willing to see how well she responds to the will of the people, as she seems to have done in the past.

At the very least, she's under retirement age and not actively rooting for fascism so it's an improvement over the old guy and the orange fascist rapist sexist old guy.

[–] Anticorp 1 points 1 month ago

The general public's attitude towards drug laws back then was formed from misleading anti-drug propaganda led by people like her. I'd rather have a defense attorney as a politician than a lifelong prosecutor. At least defense attorneys serve the people. But I digress. She's still the best option out of the whole two people we get to choose from.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Thank you! It’s my goal to be informed.

[–] Anticorp 1 points 1 month ago

She's definitely an authoritarian, and was a huge contributor to the drug laws that have filled the prisons with regular users, but the other option is also a fascist and killed over a million Americans. Is she the best of the two options? Yes. But why do we only have 2 options out of 330 million people?