Kamala Harris: "I eat 'no' for breakfast."

[ancianita]

VP Harris is President Biden's BIGGEST asset in 2024

The rest of the world knows Kamala really well -- she's visited and worked with leaders across several continents by now -- not toured.

Kamala Harris is accomplished domestically:
1.
During the housing crisis, she won a historic mortgage settlement case that helped more than 84,000 California families. How?
She pulled out of an earlier settlement deal in an effort to hold out for more money for the affected homeowners — a decision that was widely criticized at first. But in the end, her gamble paid off.

The New York Times described it at the time:
In the end, she walked away with far more than California was slated to receive in the early days of the talks and a little more than was on the table as recently as January. That right there is the art of the DEAL.

2.
Her work with the LGBTQ community led to the SCOTUS decision in favor of marriage equality.
During her time as DA from 2004 to 2011, Harris opposed both Proposition 22 and Proposition 8, which limited marriage to one man and one woman. Though they passed in 2000 and 2008, respectively, both were struck down while she was in office. As San Francisco DA, Harris also created a Hate Crimes Unit aimed at prosecuting hate crimes committed against LGBTQ teens in school.

Harris’s early support of marriage equality in California directly laid the legal groundwork for the US Supreme Court’s decision in 2012 that same-sex couples have the right to marry.
The Court cited California’s success in striking down Prop 8 in its opinion. Within hours of the decision, plaintiffs to the Supreme Court case Kris Perry and Sandy Stier became the first gay couple to wed in San Francisco, and Harris officiated their wedding.
Because love is love.

3.
She’s come out against for-profit colleges
Her next big victory as California AG came in 2016 when she won a $1.1 billion settlement against the for-profit (now defunct) Corinthian Colleges for predatory and unlawful practices.

4.
She has experience prosecuting human trafficking — and is sharply critical of the war on drugs during the Trump years.
A major priority for Harris during her tenure as AG was prosecuting transnational gangs known for trafficking drugs, firearms, and humans. Her office also led a groundbreaking study on the impacts of transnational criminal organizations and human trafficking in California.

5.
She calls herself “smart on crime,” but some allege she’s really “tough on crime.”
Kamala Harris is a prosecutor.

When she was first elected as California’s AG in 2010, Harris commanded a staff of nearly 5,000 people in the state with the country’s second-largest nonfederal prison system. At that time it had 135,000 inmates and 750 individuals were on death row, per a New York Times report.
In 2014, as CA's attorney general, Harris went to the Ninth Circuit Court to appeal US District Judge Cormac J. Carney’s decision declaring the death penalty unconstitutional.

According to reporting by the LA Times at the time, Harris offered a window into how she understands her responsibility to constituents, even those she disagrees with:
She reportedly said that though she personally opposes the death penalty, she was elected by voters who supported it, and she pledged to enforce the law.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/16/15808396/kamala-harris-democrat-rising-star-interrupted

[CrispyQ]

1. Love it!!

She's really grown into her role & exudes confidence. She has a great smile, too.

[IronLionZion]

2. Exactly how I feel

I was told many times by many falsely confident authoritative idiots that I cannot even apply with a resume for the job I have now.

Well, that recession era racism is failing badly these days now that we're in labor shortage. Rejecting qualified applicants for being too brown will bite you in the ass in today's economy.

[mopinko]

3. i predict come nov 6 the pundits

will wake up and realize they slept on a major factor in this campaign.
even tho it pisses me off that the media ignores here, i admit that stealth is a powerful tool.

[ancianita]

4. You're right. It's happened time after time when the pre-election polls were proven wrong.

Corporate media poll hype is part of their horse race approach to having their corporate overlords control more of government.

That will get fixed after we fight in the courts, certify the election, inaugurate Biden/Harris again.

We can't predict the future, but if anything happens to Biden, Harris will be the best replacement this country could have. She will have all the advisory experience and support of Biden, Clinton and Obama, and all the best people of the Biden administration with her, even if a few resign.