Joe Biden selects Kamala Harris as his running mate - President 46 & 47

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Joe Biden has chosen Kamala Harris, the prominent senator from California whose political career has included many barrier-breaking moments, as his running mate, his campaign announced on Tuesday.

The decision comes more than a year after Harris, who was also a 2020 Democratic candidate, clashed with Biden over racial issues during the first primary debate. If elected, she would be the nation’s first female, first Black and first Asian American vice president.

Picking Harris, who is 55, will also provide the ticket with some generational diversity. Biden, who is 77, would be the oldest president-elect in U.S. history.

Harris, the only Black woman in the U.S. Senate, was first elected in 2016 after serving as California’s Attorney General and, before that, San Francisco District Attorney. A native of Oakland, California, and the child of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, Harris has said she was inspired to attend law school after joining civil rights protests with her parents.

"She’s been a fighter and a principled leader and I know because I’ve seen her up close and I’ve seen her in the trenches," Biden said of Harris at a virtual fundraiser in June.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...-mate-n1235771

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Jamaican and Indian ... bring it Racist

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Get ready, as we've seen above, the obvious attacks on her race and sex are soon to follow

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Get ready, as we've seen above, the obvious attacks on her race and sex are soon to follow

She's not Thin-Skinned like Little Hands Trump and Limp Dick Pence

[cawacko]

Get ready, as we've seen above, the obvious attacks on her race and sex are soon to follow

On one hand you aren't wrong in the least but at the same time don't act like the exact same thing wouldn't happen in reverse. It doesn't justify it but it's what happens in politics and Democrats and liberals have no issue attacking women or others based on race. Look at how people on the right attack Biden and he's a cisgender white male. Any candidate he picked is going to be attacked. It's politics.

[LV426]

Joe Biden has chosen Kamala Harris, the prominent senator from California whose political career has included many barrier-breaking moments, as his running mate, his campaign announced on Tuesday.

The decision comes more than a year after Harris, who was also a 2020 Democratic candidate, clashed with Biden over racial issues during the first primary debate. If elected, she would be the nation’s first female, first Black and first Asian American vice president.

Picking Harris, who is 55, will also provide the ticket with some generational diversity. Biden, who is 77, would be the oldest president-elect in U.S. history.

Harris, the only Black woman in the U.S. Senate, was first elected in 2016 after serving as California’s Attorney General and, before that, San Francisco District Attorney. A native of Oakland, California, and the child of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, Harris has said she was inspired to attend law school after joining civil rights protests with her parents.

"She’s been a fighter and a principled leader and I know because I’ve seen her up close and I’ve seen her in the trenches," Biden said of Harris at a virtual fundraiser in June.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...-mate-n1235771

I like that a real Gen Xer is on the ticket.

[LV426]

On one hand you aren't wrong in the least but at the same time don't act like the exact same thing wouldn't happen in reverse. It doesn't justify it but it's what happens in politics and Democrats and liberals have no issue attacking women or others based on race. Look at how people on the right attack Biden and he's a cisgender white male. Any candidate he picked is going to be attacked. It's politics.

Which women have liberals attacked based on race?

They get attacked because they're stupid, not because they're white.

[Grokmaster]

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On one hand you aren't wrong in the least but at the same time don't act like the exact same thing wouldn't happen in reverse. It doesn't justify it but it's what happens in politics and Democrats and liberals have no issue attacking women or others based on race. Look at how people on the right attack Biden and he's a cisgender white male. Any candidate he picked is going to be attacked. It's politics.

Attacking a candidate on race and sex isn't just politics, and can't say I can recall a lot of Democrats leveling sexual innuendos and race implications regarding qualifications on many GOP women candidates

[cawacko]

Attacking a candidate on race and sex isn't just politics, and can't say I can recall a lot of Democrats leveling sexual innuendos and race implications regarding qualifications on many GOP women candidates

You have a short memory my friend if you've forgotten 2008 and Sarah Palin then. We saw it with Hermain Cain and Ben Carlson when they ran. And we've already seen it when Nikki Haley was floated as a possible replacement for Pence (an Indian Uncle Tom she was referred to as).

And within your own party the Bernie Bros and their sexism toward Hillary was a front and center complaint in 2016 and beyond and there were complaints among liberals about Biden's own team and their handling of the VP search and the sexism involved.

I'm not supporting any racist or sexist attacks but remember the whole glass houses thing when you complain about it.

[T. A. Gardner]

Here's the latest idiocy from Harris who teamed up with AOC to produce a travesty of injustice in a proposed bill in the House.

Sen. Kamala Harris and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez disclosed a proposed bill Monday that seeks to protect low-income communities from the dangers posed by climate change.
Titled the Climate Equity Act, the plan would establish an independent Office of Climate and Environmental Justice Accountability that would score all new environmental regulations for their impact on low-income communities.

https://news.yahoo.com/kamala-harris...204142721.html

[Jarod]

She's not Thin-Skinned like Little Hands Trump and Limp Dick Pence

Anyone who calls his wife "Mother" like Pence does, is either into incest or a limp dick.

[Micawber]

This is exciting!

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You have a short memory my friend if you've forgotten 2008 and Sarah Palin then. We saw it with Hermain Cain and Ben Carlson when they ran. And we've already seen it when Nikki Haley was floated as a possible replacement for Pence (an Indian Uncle Tom she was referred to as).

And within your own party the Bernie Bros and their sexism toward Hillary was a front and center complaint in 2016 and beyond and there were complaints among liberals about Biden's own team and their handling of the VP search and the sexism involved.

I'm not supporting any racist or sexist attacks but remember the whole glass houses thing when you complain about it.

No, can't recall anyone referring to knee pads regarding Palin nor listing Carson's only qualifications being his race, not quite the same ball park