Kamala Harris a tough sell before Bernie Sanders' CA crowd

[left-of-center2012]

Reps. Barbara Lee and Ro Khanna are good friends and two of the most progressive Bay Area House members. But Khanna definitely had the easier time of it when they advocated for rival presidential candidates before the California Democratic Party’s influential progressive caucus Friday night.

It was a tough crowd, however — the progressive caucus is heavily tilted toward independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose campaign is co-chaired by Khanna, a Fremont Democrat. Even after Lee spoke on behalf of Harris, many of those in the crowd chanted, “Ber-nie! Ber-nie! Ber-nie!”

Harris isn’t even in the second choice of many progressives in the caucus, said the group’s outgoing chair, Mark Van Landuyt:
“Most here are for Bernie, then after that it’s Elizabeth Warren,” Van Landuyt said. “They have faith that he will do the things he’s promising. We’ve been burned by politicians who promised but haven’t delivered.”

While Harris was attending a private fundraiser Friday at the home of billionaires Ann and Gordon Getty in San Francisco, Sanders was stopping by the Latino and labor caucuses at the convention.

“He’s doing his homework,” Khanna said in an interview.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Rep-Barbara-Lee-finds-Kamala-Harris-a-tough-sell-13915247.php

[msongs]

1. its the bernie crowd we have all come to know and love lol nt

[Skittles]

3. yup

[Hortensis]

4. :) Yes. Interesting that some have Warren

in their back pocket, though. Both long-time members of the establishment he condemns so...whateverly, but she's the real thing when it comes to calling for big progressive changes, and I've often wished they had someone real to support.

[Skya Rhen]

9. Warren is one of the best candidates running - she has lots of solids solutions for pressing issues

but sadly she blew it with her past heritage claims. if it weren't for this, I am convinced that she would be second in the polls (trouncing Bernie). But the reality is that she has been politically damaged, IMHO, by Trump's repeated and effective attacks on her.

It is highly unlikely that she will become the nominee and her chance of being a running mate is even less likely as she would be a drag on the ticket. I can just see all of the GOP ads addressing her by the nickname that was given to her by their leader. This is something that she will never be able to overcome. Real talk.

[brush]

28. If anyone should be worried in California, Harris' home state, it's Sanders.

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I repeat, it's her home state. Sanders lost California badly to Hillary and he will lose it to Harris as well.

And they were sore losers then if I remember correctly. Really tired of this divisive crap from his supporters..

[TDale313]

32. I agree.

Californian who supported Sanders in the primaries last time, and who is supporting Harris this time around. She will do very, very well in the California Primaries- and they are early this time around. My gut says she will be the nominee, and I think she can beat Trump. She’s incredibly smart and skilled, good on the issues, a great speaker, has a really strong campaign infrastructure. I will support whoever the nominee ends up being (as I did last time- stopping Trump is priority #1) but on top of really liking her, I think things look really good for her at this point.

[RockRaven]

2. LUNACY: "... he will do the things he's promising. We've been burned by politicians who promised..."

"... but haven’t delivered.”

This is a guy who cannot get his stuff passed through even *one* house of Congress even when he is actually IN Congress. You think he can do that from the Oval through a base-led cult of personality? Okay... well if that is such an obviously established phenomena, then why has Trump failed to do exactly that? Oh, right, because that is not how reality works...

[Jeffersons Ghost]

10. Initially, at DU, I supported Sanders but ended up voting for Clinton...

That's what REAL Democrats do...

[TDale313]

33. Same.

[lapucelle]

5. What does this mean?

“

What motivates Berniecrats is a sense that the system isn’t working — that we have change things,” Khanna said. “And he represents fundamental change.”

[Demsrule86]

6. I have never understood how a person who can't get legislation passed represents change.

All these promised being made and I include Warren (others too)...none of them have a chance of getting any of this stuff down in the current landscape.

[honest.abe]

7. What they dont realize is that Bernie is just good at hitting their hot buttons..

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and has no idea how enact what he proposes.

[Fresh_Start]

11. Still clueless

"They have faith that he will do the things he’s promising."

I guess this is the same type of faith that Trump supporters have ....based on no evidence whatsoever.

[chillfactor]

34. amen....

[Kentonio]

36. The guy has held the same cast iron positions on a huge range of topics for his whole political life

Damn right it's more believable that he'll stick by those positions (which he supported long before they were mainstream) if he wins.

[Fresh_Start]

37. sticking by those positions is NOT

the same as achieving any results

And that is exactly why my criticism is accurate

[BannonsLiver]

12. Sounds like a room full of people who learned nothing from 2016 to me.

But whatevs...

[TreasonousBastard]

13. AAAaaarrrggghh...

“Most here are for Bernie, then after that it’s Elizabeth Warren,” Van Landuyt said. “They have faith that he will do the things he’s promising. We’ve been burned by politicians who promised but haven’t delivered.”

Isn't this damn near every politician who ever lived? Promising is easy, delivering not so much.

[BannonsLiver]

14. The irony is she could just as easily be talking about Bernie.

But I guess some folks live in their own reality.

[JI7]

16. exactly, he has been in public office for decades

longer than many he is running against but with far less accomplishment.

[Blue_true]

20. If you look at Senator Sander's legislative record and compact that to Biden's legislative record.

Those "progressive caucus" people have it all wrong. Biden has delivered, Senator Sanders has not.

[chillfactor]

35. agree wholeheartedly1

[Skidmore]

15. Give me Harris any day

over Sanders. She is a leader, incisive and dynamic.

[TreasonousBastard]

17. She also has had a real job and knows something about...

responsibility and reality.

[tishaLA]

18. Sens. Harris and Warren got the most enthusiastic

Receptions at the CA Democrats' convention, by far.

[Blue_true]

21. The OP nit-picked one small group and made it look like total rejection of

Senator Harris. Such stuff has been happening regularly as the level of desperation grows in a certain camp.

[tishaLA]

25. History repeats itself

I left DU in the middle of the past primary mess for a reason

[Blue_true]

27. That can NOT be allowed to happen again. To much is at stake for the country and the world. nt

[deurbano]

29. Were you there this morning? I thought they both did great. I hadn't seen Sen, Warren in person

before, and I was really impressed.

[highplainsdem]

19. Bernie supporters chanting his name AFTER Lee spoke out on behalf of Harris is exactly why

many Democrats don't trust Bernie and his supporters to have any real loyalty to the party.

I hope he's knocked out of the primary race early and has the sense and humility to step aside and urge his supporters to back the nominee.

[Blue_true]

22. What the OP didn't point out was that group was a fraction of a much larger group.

Seems somewhat wrong to do that, but it is what it is.

So, tonight, there has been an OP that used made up data to distort Joe Biden's environmental record, now one that makes it seem Senator Harris was roundly rejected in a key Super Tuesday state, when in fact she was warmly received by most of the convention goers.

[TreasonousBastard]

23. Deja vu, anyone?

[Blue_true]

24. I think that we need to declare them hostile now and not mess around with them like we did in 2016

and 2000. When we start making real powerful progress, they start their attacks and set us back by helping to elect a republican. I am sick of that, call their asses out and stop babying them.

[EveHammond13]

26. booing Hillary at the Convention was the moment the bridge got burned for me

[still_one]

31. This is the so-called progressive caucus of the California Democratic Party, and it does not

necessarily represent the views of most California Democrats, and past elections have demonstrated that clearly.

Because a group is loud and rude, does not mean they are the majority, and Sanders' endorsements in California were dismal at best

[still_one]

30. There is more than just the progressive caucus in the California Democratic Party, as previous

state wide elections have demonstrated in California