Breaking - Kamala Harris drops out of the race n/t

[malaise]

[bearsfootball516]

1. Liked her, but she never carried the momentum she had right after she kicked off the campaign.

My hope is that if we win back the White House, she's named AG.

[jayfish]

4. "My hope is that she's named AG."

Thanks, but no thanks.

I will be interested to see how the media plays this. I have a sneaky suspicion they will play it as bad for Democrats and a sign of how weak the field is. Even though they've been whining about the size of the field for months.

[blaze]

2. CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/03/politics/kamala-harris-ends-presidential-bid/index.html

[nolabear]

3. She'd be a great AG.

[TheBlackAdder]

10. Great, she'd be ass-kicking. And she's young enough to run for president later on.

[jayfish]

12. Ass Kicking What?

The Chain of Evidence? Pot smokers?

Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor

In 2014, she declined to take a position on Proposition 47, a ballot initiative approved by voters, that reduced certain low-level felonies to misdemeanors. She laughed that year when a reporter asked if she would support the legalization of marijuana for recreational use. Ms. Harris finally reversed course in 2018, long after public opinion had shifted on the topic.

In 2015, she opposed a bill requiring her office to investigate shootings involving officers. And she refused to support statewide standards regulating the use of body-worn cameras by police officers. For this, she incurred criticism from an array of left-leaning reformers, including Democratic state senators, the A.C.L.U. and San Francisco’s elected public defender. The activist Phelicia Jones, who had supported Ms. Harris for years, asked, “How many more people need to die before she steps in?”

Worst of all, though, is Ms. Harris’s record in wrongful conviction cases. Consider George Gage, an electrician with no criminal record who was charged in 1999 with sexually abusing his stepdaughter, who reported the allegations years later. The case largely hinged on the stepdaughter’s testimony and Mr. Gage was convicted.

Afterward, the judge discovered that the prosecutor had unlawfully held back potentially exculpatory evidence, including medical reports indicating that the stepdaughter had been repeatedly untruthful with law enforcement. Her mother even described her as “a pathological liar” who “lives her lies.”

[nolabear]

13. Exactly. She's young, smart, fearless and I think she's far from giving up.

[Beaverhausen]

5. Bummer but I'm glad she's still in the senate

I really hoped she'd do better.

[Kaleva]

6. Just got this email from her campign this morning

XXXX,

I’ve heard about “electability” in every race that I’ve won.

I was counted down and out by my opponents, the pollsters, even some of my own allies in those races. The pundits and pollsters didn’t matter then, and they don’t matter now.

You know what does matter, Robert? Your voice matters. What you believe in matters. What you are willing to fight for in this election… it matters.

That’s why I want to hear from you. I want to know what’s on your mind as we gear up for the last debate of 2019. Will you take a moment to share your thoughts with my December survey?
TAKE OUR SURVEY

This is the last survey of the year before we jump into the swing of 2020, so it’s important that you add your thoughts.

Thanks for being in my corner.

— Kamala

[TlalocW]

7. If her senate seat is a safe democratic seat

Whoever is the dem nominee should offer her the veep slot. I like her.

TlalocW

[GoCubsGo]

8. Well, shoot.

She'd make a fine US Attorney General...

[NurseJackie]

9. Her future looks bright! She will play an important role in the next administration.

[ismnotwasm]

11. Shit just got the official email

Now. Well hell.

[3Hotdogs]

14. After bringing out the long knife on Biden,

Good riddance to her.

[msdogi]

15. still our Senator

and that makes me happy