Kamala Harris' call-them-out Twitter strategy

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3. True, but they were also throwing the Rev. Wright and Ayers controversy, trying to paint President

Obama as a "racist and a 'radical'", which he addressed immediately.

I think your assessment is right about the birther garbage. They pushed back, but not very much because there was enough actual evidence to refute it, and I think they determined that it wasn't worth it because it would only distract from the message they wanted to get out.


It could have very easily gone the other way though. In retrospect, always easy to view things after the fact, they probably should have been more forceful with that, especially in regard to calling out the liars that were pushing that.

Going forward, and especially what has transpired with the misinformation and lies from 2016, it seems pretty apparent that you cannot be complacent on things like this, and need to address it forcefully and quickly.