In a move that &#8220;could enhance her chances of becoming vice president but could also anger liberals in California,&#8221; as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/us/politics/kamala-harris-joe-biden-endorsement.html">The New York Times</a> puts it, former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris appears to be moving closer to making a public endorsement of former Vice President Joe Biden.
Citing &#8220;multiple Democratic officials familiar with her deliberations,&#8221; the Times reported Thursday that Harris is &#8220;weighing an endorsement&#8221; of the man she famously targeted in a racially charged exchange during the first Democratic primary debate.
&#8220;Such a move could lift Mr. Biden’s campaign and perhaps do even more to enhance Ms. Harris’s chances of becoming vice president, but it could also anger her liberal base in California,&#8221; the Times&#8217; Jonathan Martin notes.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Times that if she does end up endorsing Biden, or any candidate for that matter, she will likely hold off until the Senate impeachment trial is over.
&#8220;Yet she and Mr. Biden, the former vice president, have remained in contact since she exited the race and had a long conversation in the immediate aftermath of her departure,&#8221; Martin writes.
Democrats &#8220;close&#8221; to Harris told the Times that she is &#8220;mindful&#8221; that her endorsement would impact the remaining female senators in the race, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and is &#8220;uneasy about the prospect of backing a candidate only to see him or her lose California.&#8221;
A spokesman for Harris insisted that Harris has not decided yet about whether she will endorse a candidate. “Senator Harris remains focused on the ongoing impeachment trial of President Trump,” Harris spokesman Chris Harris told the Times. “No decisions have been made about whether she will endorse, which candidate, nor when an endorsement decision will be made.”
Harris&#8217;s consideration of throwing her support behind Biden follows some head-turning comments by the frontrunner a day after she announced that she was ending her campaign in early December. Asked if he would consider her on the ticket, Biden said, “Of course I would.&#8221;
&#8220;Look, Sen. Harris has the capacity to be anything she wants to be,&#8221; said Biden, who&#8217;s enjoyed a healthy lead in the national polls until recent weeks as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has closed the gap. &#8220;I mean it sincerely. I talked to her yesterday. She’s solid, she can be president someday herself, she can be vice president, she could go on to be a Supreme Court justice, she could be attorney general. I mean she has enormous capability.&#8221;
As The Daily Wire&#8217;s Emily Zanotti <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-says-hes-considering-kamala-harris-as-a-running-mate">noted</a> at the time, Biden particularly benefited from Harris’ departure. &#8220;With Harris gone, Biden can consolidate support among minority voters, increasing his margin of victory in places like South Carolina and Nevada, giving him a commanding lead in places he’s already expected to win,&#8221; Zanotti wrote.
While Biden and Sanders contend for the top spot, the woman with the best shot at the nomination, Warren, has steadily lost ground after a brief bump in the polls in early fall.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-father-asks-elizabeth-warren-if-hes-going-to-get-his-money-back-after-paying-for-daughters-education">WATCH: Father Asks Elizabeth Warren If He’s Going To Get His Money Back After Paying For Daughter’s Education</a>
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Kamala Harris

NYT: Kamala Harris Considers Major Move, Backing Biden; Follows Biden’s VP Comments

Bernie Sanders

Elizabeth Warren

Impeachment

Joe Biden

During MSNBC’s &#8220;Public Education Forum 2020: Education and Justice For All&#8221; event on Saturday, Democratic presidential frontrunner former Vice President Joe Biden publicly committed to &#8220;ending the use of standardizing testing in public schools&#8221; after a questioner asked about their &#8220;history of racism and eugenics.&#8221;
Biden made the comment in response to a question from a member of the audience who identified herself as a representative of a Black Lives Matter group.
&#8220;Teaching has changed drastically over the last 10 to 20 years,&#8221; the questioner said in comments reported by <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/14/joe-biden-end-standardized-testing/">The Daily Caller</a> (video below). &#8220;Instead of being allowed to use their expertise to develop engaging curricula that’s culturally responsive, teachers are often forced to use a scripted curriculum that rushes children through without giving them enough time to really understand the material.&#8221;
&#8220;Many teachers feel more like a test-prep tutor than a test [teacher] of children, and they&#8217;re concerned that both teachers and students are heavily evaluated by standardized testing,&#8221; she continued. After condemning the &#8220;narrow&#8221; focus of the tests, the questioner turned the issue to one of &#8220;racism.&#8221;
&#8220;Given that standardized testing is rooted in a history of racism and eugenics, if you are elected president, will you commit to ending the use of standardizing testing in public schools?&#8221; she asked, a question that prompted applause from the heavily Democratic audience.
&#8220;Yes,&#8221; Biden responded.
&#8220;As one of my friends and black pastors I’ve spent a lot of time with, Rev. Herring, would say: &#8216;You’re preaching to the choir, kid.&#8217; OK?&#8221; he added.
Without pushing back on the &#8220;racism&#8221; and &#8220;eugenics&#8221; claim, Biden continued: &#8220;Because look, that’s why teachers, teachers, should be able to determine the curricula in their school.&#8221;
The Democratic frontrunner then worked in a shot at some teachers, who he said were frankly &#8220;lousy.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m not trying to be nice,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There’s some lousy teachers out there, OK? There’s lousy politicians. There’s lousy senators. There’s lousy doctors. I’m not saying every teacher is a great teacher. What I am saying is: You know what it takes to communicate to a child what in fact they need to know.&#8221;
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As reported by <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/2020-presidential-hopefuls-weigh-public-education-ahead-december/story?id=67733604">ABC News</a>, MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Equity and Justice&#8221; forum Saturday was &#8220;organized by the Schott Foundation and 11 other public education and civil rights groups, including the NAACP&#8221; and included &#8220;more than 1,000 teachers, students, parents and community members.&#8221;
During a discussion about continued segregation in some American schools, Biden touted his &#8220;record on civil rights.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m extremely proud of my record on civil rights,&#8221; he said, as reported by ABC. &#8220;That&#8217;s why I have more people in the African-American community supporting me than anybody else. That&#8217;s why [President Obama] picked me. I make no apologies for my record on civil rights. It’s been as good or better than anybody in politics.&#8221;
During the first Democratic presidential primary debate over the summer, Biden famously got into a heated exchange with former presidential candidate California Sen. Kamala Harris about his track record on civil rights and education.
Harris <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/29/school-busing-debate-between-joe-biden-kamala-harris/">accused</a> Biden of &#8220;work[ing] to oppose busing&#8221; designed to help combat school segregation. &#8220;And, you know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;I did not oppose busing in America,&#8221; Biden replied. &#8220;What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education. That’s what I opposed.&#8221;

WATCH: Biden Commits To Ending ‘Racist’ Standardized Testing, Calls Out ‘Lousy’ Teachers

Education

Racism

On Wednesday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles talks about the failure of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. Video and partial transcript below: 
But on that point, on 2020, on the leader of the free world and the hope for the future and the hope for 2020: Another one bites the dust. You&#8217;ve probably already seen this going around the Internet, Kamala Harris is officially out of the race. 
It&#8217;s not significant, in terms of the actual election — no one thought that Kamala Harris was going to be able to claw her way out of the 2% in the polls that she had, but it does say something about the state of the Democratic Party right now. The fact that her candidacy flopped, her candidacy — which looked very good on paper — flopped. Tells you a lot about where we are. 
Why did the candidacy look good on paper? Because the Left is obsessed with identity politics, racial identity, and sexual identity politics. Obviously, Kamala Harris checks those boxes. The Left is obsessed with unfettered immigration; Kamala Harris is the child of immigrants. In terms of presidential appeal, in terms of how these races tend to work, if you&#8217;ve been on the scene too long, generally that doesn&#8217;t bode well for you, especially in the Democratic Party. 
Now think of Barack Obama, [who] goes up against Hillary Clinton. We all knew Hillary forever, she&#8217;d been around since the dawn of time &#8230; Barack Obama, very little was known about him, and that actually helped him. He was a better candidate because people didn&#8217;t know that much about him. They could project their hopes and dreams onto him — hope and change was the big theme of that campaign. 
Same thing was true of Kamala Harris. People didn&#8217;t really know who she was. She was an attractive-looking candidate. She sounded pretty good when she wasn&#8217;t giving that awful cackling laugh, she had been attorney general, she had been a prosecutor, she had been a senator for about five minutes. Everything looked good about her campaign, except ideologically because Kamala Harris couldn&#8217;t pick a lane. 
This could be the name of the 2020 Democratic primary — “Can you pick a lane?” Pick-a-lane primary, no one&#8217;s able to do it. They&#8217;re all veering left, they&#8217;re all veering center. Liz Warren, is she going to be a kind of establishment Harvard professor, or is she gonna be this radical leftist trying to go to the left? Bernie Sanders — Mayor Pete, is Mayor Pete going to be this radical person saying that if you don&#8217;t support abortion and gay marriage, you&#8217;re not a Christian? Or is he going to be the moderate guy in Joe Biden&#8217;s lane? Joe Biden himself, who is the moderate in the race, is Joe Biden going to lean into being a moderate, or is he going to support lifting the ban on taxpayer funding for abortion? That&#8217;s the trouble with this race. 
One thing we&#8217;re seeing is it doesn&#8217;t hurt you to be in either of those lanes when Joe Biden is playing the moderate. He generally does pretty well when Bernie Sanders is playing the leftist — he generally does pretty well. But when you start to veer left and center and left and center, that&#8217;s when you fall apart, and that&#8217;s what happened to Kamala Harris. 
Kamala Harris lost because of her own weaknesses — she also lost because Tulsi Gabbard absolutely shanked her during one of the Democratic debates. You can almost pinpoint there — there are two moments, I think that you can pinpoint when Kamala Harris’ campaign completely fell apart. One of them [was] at the hands of Tulsi Gabbard on CNN. 
<blockquote>GABBARD: Senator Harris says she&#8217;s proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she&#8217;ll be a prosecutor president, but I&#8217;m deeply concerned about this record. There are too many examples to cite, but she put over fifteen hundred people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana. She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so, she kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California, and she fought to keep a cash bail system in place that impacts people in the worst kind of way.
GABBARD: When you are in a position to make a difference and an impact in these people&#8217;s lives, you did not. And worse yet, in the case of those who were on death row, innocent people — you actually blocked evidence from being revealed that would have freed them until you were forced to do. So there is no excuse for that, and the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor, you owe them an apology. </blockquote>
Tulsi, stop it! Stop it, Tulsi, she’s already dead! So this was the attack, the attack on Kamala. Kamala was a cop, Kamala is too tough on crime, Kamala was throwing people into the prison system — that was the attack from the Left, which is funny that it&#8217;s made by Tulsi Gabbard, who is ostensibly more to the right of the Democratic Party on a number of issues. That was the hit that they were putting on Kamala. It worked very well, because Kamala played her whole campaign as though she&#8217;s going to prosecute the case against Donald Trump. 
Right, she&#8217;s the tough prosecutor, she&#8217;s the serious candidate, she&#8217;s she&#8217;s not one of these hippy-dippy candidates, she&#8217;s going to be really tough. And what Tulsi Gabbard did is she didn&#8217;t go for Kamala’s weaknesses, exactly. She went for her strengths — Kamala is running, “I&#8217;m the ex-attorney general, had a good career as a prosecutor,” and Tulsi goes for that strength. Now, if Kamala were a smart candidate, she would have leaned into that. She would have said “Yes, damn right, I put criminals in jail and I&#8217;m going to put the biggest criminal in America who&#8217;s sitting in the White House, whose name is Donald Trump. I know, put that guy in jail.” It would have kind of done what Donald Trump did in 2016, right. 
Donald Trump in 2016, when Hillary Clinton said, “I don&#8217;t want to live in an America where you&#8217;re president,” Trump said, “Yeah, that&#8217;s because you&#8217;d be in jail.” He&#8217;s leaning right into it, that&#8217;s what Kamala Harris should have done. Instead, she didn&#8217;t, she goes on the Breakfast Club, this popular radio show, and talks about how much she loves smoking joints, and blunts, and listening to Snoop Dogg. 
<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-michael-knowles-show/id1266577963?mt=2">Listen to full episodes of “The Michael Knowles Show” on iTunes. </a>
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UCFW Hosts Democratic Presidential Candidates At &#8220;Future Of Work&#8221; Forum In Iowa

KNOWLES: Another One Bites The Dust

2020 Election

Democratic Party

Former Vice President Joe Biden is making a play for Sen. Kamala Harris&#8217; (D-CA), suggesting Wednesday that he would consider the California legislator as a running mate if he snags the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
Harris dropped out of contention for the Democratic party&#8217;s nomination on Tuesday citing a dwindling bank account, though experts suspected Harris was also deeply considering polls, which showed her well behind in the race to challenge President Donald Trump both nationally and in key early primary states. Since then, Democratic contenders have been scrambling to pick up Harris&#8217; base of support, some pressing the need for &#8220;diversity&#8221; on the debate stage and others adopting Harris&#8217; key policy proposals.
Biden opted to simply adopt Harris, despite the pair&#8217;s complicated history.
&#8220;Of course I would,&#8221; Biden said when asked if he might pick Harris to run with him in 2020, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/04/politics/joe-biden-kamala-harris-vp-pick/index.html">per CNN</a>. &#8220;Look, Sen. Harris has the capacity to be anything she wants to be. I mean it sincerely. I talked to her yesterday. She&#8217;s solid, she can be president someday herself, she can be vice president, she could go on to be a Supreme Court justice, she could be attorney general. I mean she has enormous capability.&#8221;
The &#8220;Supreme Court Justice&#8221; segment of that quote might be the most terrifying considering Harris&#8217; record as a strict &#8220;law-and-order&#8221; attorney general in California, but its Biden&#8217;s suggestion that Harris could be on the ticket that has campaign watchers reeling.
Harris was Biden&#8217;s first foil among the Democratic candidates, confronting the former vice president on his history of opposing forced integration of urban schools and his close relationships with segregationalist legislators, as CNN points out. The resulting argument, which happened during a town hall event early in the summer, gave Harris a temporary boost into the double digits &#8212; her highest placement among the 2020 candidates.
Harris&#8217; sudden popularity, though, was short-lived. She failed to capitalize on the incident and other candidates for the Democratic nomination quickly adopted some of Harris&#8217; progressive policy ideas &#8212; <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/05/medicare-for-all-2020-democratic-primary-075034">including a &#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; public health care plan</a> &#8212; and did them better. Harris was then left with a campaign that never quite pushed its way out of the doldrums.
Biden could, of course, benefit from Harris on the ticket. Progressives are looking for an alternative to the more &#8220;moderate&#8221; former Obama veep, and she fulfills the need for a &#8220;diverse&#8221; ticket &#8212; something fellow potential nominees like Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) have been complaining about in recent days.
Biden also stands to benefit from Harris&#8217; departure. Democratic strategiests, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/05/medicare-for-all-2020-democratic-primary-075034">interviewed by Fox News</a>, cited Biden as the top choice among African-American voters, many of whom will now be politically homeless after supporting Harris. With Harris gone, Biden can consolidate support among minority voters, increasing his margin of victory in places like South Carolina and Nevada, giving him a commanding lead in places he&#8217;s already expected to win.
Booker could also benefit, according to Fox strategists. His campaign to chastize Democratic leadership and primary voters for driving out a minority female has elevated his profile significantly, giving him the opportunity to make headway in early primary states &#8212; something he&#8217;s struggled to do since declaring his candidacy.

Biden Harris

Joe Biden Says He’s Considering Kamala Harris As A Running Mate

During a campaign event at Iowa State University, former Vice President Joe Biden expressed grief that Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) had exited the Democratic presidential primary, but insisted that Harris has “unlimited&#8221; potential, and implied she may one day hold a higher office. 
“A lot of good people trying to seek the nomination for president in the Democratic party, and I mean that sincerely,” Biden told supporters, according to <a href="https://twitter.com/sarahmucha/status/1202288792297754633">CNN</a>. “We lost a really good one, the senator from California. She’s capable of being president, or vice president or on the Supreme Court or attorney general.”
After the event, Biden told reporters that “of course” he would consider Harris as a running mate, and that “Senator Harris has the capacity to be anything she wants to be,” according to <a href="https://twitter.com/BoKnowsNews/status/1202313846406492163">CBS</a>.
After the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Harris was floated as a potential successor, and the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-kamala-harris-supreme-court-20160216-story.html">LA Times</a> reported that there was speculation Harris “could be on President Obama’s short list of possible nominees.” 
Former advisor to the Obama White House David Axelrod was one such person who mentioned the speculation, and Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California, Irvine, maintained a Harris appointment was “plausible,” although “unusual,” reported the news agency. 
A spokesman for Harris’ Senate campaign at the time told the LA Times that, while Harris was “honored to be mentioned in these conversations, she’s committed to her current job and continuing her fight” in the Senate. 
Biden&#8217;s comments come only a day after Harris announced that she was suspending her campaign due to a lack of financial resources. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/us/politics/kamala-harris-campaign-drops-out.html">The New York Times</a> reported on Tuesday that Harris reached the decision after she performed a campaign audit, which was prompted by an article in the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/29/us/politics/kamala-harris-2020.html">Times</a> declaring that her campaign had “unraveled.” 
Biden has previously floated the idea of several potential running mates, including former Assistant AG Sally Yates, failed Georgia governor candidate Stacey Abrams, and New Hampshire Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, according to <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/11/23/joe-biden-possible-vice-president-stacey-abrams-sally-yates/4284126002/">USA Today</a>. 
During the most recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Harris notoriously asked Kavanaugh an absurdly long and equally ridiculous line of questioning, presumably to garner favor with the media ahead of her now-failed presidential bid. 
<blockquote>HARRIS: Have you discussed Mueller or his investigation with anyone at Kasowitz, Benson &amp; Torres, the law firm founded by Marc Kasowitz, President Trump’s personal attorney. 
KAVANAUGH: I — 
HARRIS: Be sure about your answer, sir. 
KAVANAUGH: Well, I’m not remembering but if you have something you wanna —
HARRIS: Are you certain you’ve not had a conversation with anyone at that law firm?
KAVANAUGH: Kasowitz, Benson —
HARRIS: Kasowitz, Benson &amp; Torres, which is the law firm founded by Marc Kasowitz, who is President Trump’s personal lawyer. Have you had any conversation about Robert Mueller, or his investigation, with anyone at that firm? Yes or no?
KAVANAUGH: Is there a person you’re talking about?
HARRIS: I’m asking you a very direct question, yes or no?
KAVANAUGH: I’m not sure I know everyone who works at that law firm.
HARRIS: I don’t think you need to, I think you need to know who you talked with. Who’d you talk to?</blockquote>
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-suggested-kavanaugh-spoke-trumps-law-ben-shapiro">Daily Wire</a> editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro summarized of the nearly 10 minute derailment, Harris “essentially accused Kavanaugh of stonewalling on whether he had spoken with President Trump’s law firm about the Robert Mueller investigation. Kavanaugh correctly said he didn’t know what she was talking about, and also said he didn’t know every lawyer at Kasowitz Benson Torres &#8212; a law firm with nearly 300 attorneys.”

Sen. Kamala Harris Speaks At Her Alma Mater Howard University

Supreme Court Justice Harris? Biden Floats Possibilities For Senator In Higher Office

The following is satirical.
Kamala Harris has stopped campaigning for president, which is apparently something she was doing before she decided to stop.
Harris said she could no longer raise the money she needed to finance her strategy of making absurd and intrusive policy proposals and then cackling in a thoroughly unpleasant manner. She said she was sure that strategy would have worked eventually, though she conceded the cackling might have alienated some easily frightened voters.
Harris blamed racism and sexism for her failure, saying many voters didn’t like black women, especially when they were also intolerable human beings.
Harris’ surrender came just hours after Congressman Joe Sestak and Montana Governor Steve Bullock both dropped out of the race when they realized they had never heard of themselves and hadn’t even been aware they were running.
Harris had recently described herself as a top-tier candidate who could not take her rival Tulsi Gabbard’s candidacy seriously. However, Gabbard reacted graciously to Harris’s announcement, saying, “I’m truly sorry that Kamala had to end her top-tier candidacy, which was so top-tier she couldn’t take seriously my candidacy, which will be continuing, while her top-tier candidacy comes to an end, and mine continues.”
Joe Biden also wished Harris well. In a press conference given in the girl’s room of the Richard Beymer Memorial Elementary School in Des Moines Iowa, Biden said, “Watching Kamala end her campaign, I could only think back to when little girls would stroke the hairs on my leg to watch the hairs change color. I loved it when they stroked my hairy legs and if anyone would like to do that again, you know where to find your old Uncle Joe.”
Biden was escorted off school grounds by local police after his eyeball exploded, leaving two people injured, while a third person suffered a serious bite from Biden’s teeth, which had escaped to a room down the hall.
The remaining Democrat candidates have vowed to continue their campaigns right up until the president’s re-election.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-trolls-kamala-harris-for-dropping-out-of-presidential-race">Trump Trolls Kamala Harris For Dropping Out Of Presidential Race</a>

Kamala Harris Suspends Campaign She Was Apparently Running [Satire]

Tulsi Gabbard

President Donald Trump trolled Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) on Tuesday after she announced that she was dropping out of the Democratic presidential nomination race, saying, &#8220;We will miss you Kamala!&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s tweet came in response to a tweet from Corey Lewandowski, who wrote on Twitter: &#8220;&#8216;One of the hardest decisions of my life&#8217;: Kamala Harris ends once-promising campaign. Another one bites the dust. Guess it’s not as easy as everyone thought. ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ connected with people that’s why he won 38 Primaries and Caucuses.&#8221;
Trump responded, &#8220;Too bad. We will miss you Kamala!&#8221;
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Too bad. We will miss you Kamala! <a href="https://t.co/QQd9SiFc0y">https://t.co/QQd9SiFc0y</a>
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Harris made the announcement in a note to her supporters on Tuesday, saying, “Eleven months ago at the launch of our campaign in Oakland I told you all: ‘I am not perfect.&#8217; But I will always speak with decency and moral clarity and treat all people with dignity and respect. I will lead with integrity. I will speak the truth. And that’s what I have tried to do every day of this campaign. So here’s the truth today.”
“I’ve taken stock and looked at this from every angle, and over the last few days have come to one of the hardest decisions of my life,&#8221; Harris continued. &#8220;My campaign for president simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue.&#8221;
Harris portrayed herself as somewhat of a victim, adding, “I’m not a billionaire. I can’t fund my own campaign. As the campaign has gone, it’s become harder and harder to raise the money we need to compete.”
Harris responded to Trump, writing on Twitter, &#8220;Don’t worry, Mr. President. I’ll see you at your trial.&#8221;
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Don’t worry, Mr. President. I’ll see you at your trial. <a href="https://t.co/iiS17NY4Ry">https://t.co/iiS17NY4Ry</a>
&mdash; Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1202008446083698689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In her statement announcing the end of her campaign, Harris said, &#8220;And our campaign uniquely spoke to the experiences of Black women and people of color — and their importance to the success and future of this party. Our campaign demanded no one should be taken for granted by any political party.&#8221;
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&#8220;And I believe our campaign showed every child in America — regardless of their color or gender — that there are no limits to who can lead and hold positions of power in our country,&#8221; Harris continued. I am extremely grateful to the hundreds of staff who moved and uprooted their lives and sacrificed time away from their families. I know our fight has been personal for each of them.&#8221;
Harris concluded,  &#8220;Of course, I could not have done this without my husband Doug and my entire family and friends who gave up so much to embark on this journey with me and have supported me every step of the way. And I am grateful to the thousands of volunteers and contributors who chipped in, who knocked on doors, who made calls and who put their faith and trust in me. It has been the honor of my life to be your candidate.&#8221;
Other Democratic presidential candidates, who are still in the race, weighed in on Harris&#8217; announcement by offering their support.
Joe Biden wrote on Twitter: &#8220;Kamala Harris is an incredible talent with unlimited potential. Her career has been defined by taking on those who abuse power and seeking equity and justice for all people. Her intellect and insight will continue to be needed by the Democratic Party and the country.&#8221;
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Kamala Harris is an incredible talent with unlimited potential. Her career has been defined by taking on those who abuse power and seeking equity and justice for all people. Her intellect and insight will continue to be needed by the Democratic Party and the country.
&mdash; Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1201992004764200962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Tulsi Gabbard tweeted: &#8220;Sending my best wishes to @KamalaHarris, her family &amp; supporters who have campaigned so hard. While we disagree on some issues, we agree on others &amp; I respect her sincere desire to serve the American people. I look forward to working together on the challenges we face as a nation.&#8221;
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Sending my best wishes to <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KamalaHarris</a>, her family &amp; supporters who have campaigned so hard. While we disagree on some issues, we agree on others &amp; I respect her sincere desire to serve the American people. I look forward to working together on the challenges we face as a nation
&mdash; Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) <a href="https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1201944352727224321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump Trolls Kamala Harris For Dropping Out Of Presidential Race

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-kamala-harris-drops-out-of-presidential-race">dropped out</a> of the 2020 presidential race on Tuesday despite being once having exceedingly high hopes to reach the White House.
Those dreams have been dashed now, and some identity politics pushers on the Left have already lamented that the 2020 race is now headed by a bunch of white people.
&#8220;Kamala Harris officially ended her campaign today, which means that all of the candidates who currently qualify for the December Democratic debate are white (Sanders, Warren, Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, and Steyer). White supremacy is not just a Fox News problem, folks,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/laurenduca/status/1201930900445057024?s=20">tweeted journalist</a> Lauren Duca.
&#8220;Obviously I’m no centrist but it’s downright effed up that smart, compelling, *very* experienced, centrist Democratic candidates of color are floundering while a smart but wildly inexperienced, centrist white mayor of teeny tiny city is surging. Bad look, Democrats,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/sallykohn/status/1201930298482741248?s=20">tweeted LGBT activist</a> Sally Kohn.
&#8220;Kamala Harris’ campaign was historic — a black and South Asian female candidate whose potential seemed sky high early on. Her dropping out means that every candidate that’s qualified so far for the next debate is white: Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Sanders, Steyer, and Warren,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/mj_lee/status/1201935814197940225?s=20">tweeted CNN correspondent</a> MJ Lee. 
&#8220;Kamala Harris dropping out of the race while only white candidates qualify for the next presidential debate shows that white privilege and white supremacy cut across party lines. It’s not just Trump. We have a racism problem in all of the United States of America, and it sucks,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1201939626199379968?s=20">tweeted SJW activist</a> Dr. Eugene Gu. 
&#8220;I’m not a Kamala Harris fan (Bernie 2020), but it’s quite telling that the only Black woman has dropped out while a host of mediocre white men are still in, wasting our time with their inflated egos,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/RebeccaforWA/status/1201941070776397824?s=20">tweeted congressional candidate</a> Rebecca Parsons. 
Upon announcing her withdrawal from the 2020 race, Harris said the lack of &#8220;financial resources&#8221; motivated the decision.
“I’ve taken stock and looked at this from every angle, and over the last few days have come to one of the hardest decisions of my life,” Harris wrote on <a href="https://medium.com/@KamalaHarris/i-am-suspending-my-campaign-today-6dca8cefb252">Medium</a>. “My campaign for the presidency simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue.”
“I’m not a billionaire. I can’t fund my own campaign,” continued Harris. “As the campaign has gone, it’s become harder and harder to raise the money we need to compete.”
Indeed, the senator&#8217;s use of the word &#8220;billionaire&#8221; has induced some leftists into blaming her eventual dropout on the Democratic Party donor class, rather than her low polling numbers.
&#8220;The fact that [Gillibrand] and [Harris] both dropped out of the race before the billionaire white guys who bought their way in and are funding their continued stay tells you every damn thing you need to know about our f***ed up political system,&#8221; tweeted <a href="https://twitter.com/DCampoamor/status/1201926161770659841?s=20">Danielle Campoamor of The New York Times</a>. 
&#8220;Two SITTING WOMEN SENATORS, Gillibrand and Harris, were forced out of this race while non-office-holders Bloomberg and Steyer bought their way in. And it&#8217;s not just because they can, but because our broken system continues to allows white, male billionaires like them to do it,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=billionaire&amp;src=typed_query">tweeted</a> Lauren Rankin.
A civil war seems to be brewing within the Democratic Party ranks.

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Democrats Freak After Kamala Harris Drops Out: 2020 Race Now Dominated By Old White Men

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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) announced on Tuesday that she is suspending her presidential campaign. 
“I’ve taken stock and looked at this from every angle, and over the last few days have come to one of the hardest decisions of my life,” Harris wrote on <a href="https://medium.com/@KamalaHarris/i-am-suspending-my-campaign-today-6dca8cefb252">Medium</a>. “My campaign for presidency simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue.”
“I’m not a billionaire. I can’t fund my own campaign,” continues Harris. “As the campaign has gone, it’s become harder and harder to raise the money we need to compete.”
Before the announcement, Harris had pulled out of a high-profile donor event early Tuesday morning, according to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/03/kamala-harris-cancels-new-york-fundraiser-as-2020-campaign-in-turmoil.html">CNBC</a>. Shortly after, she began informing her campaign staff that she would be withdrawing from the race for financial reasons, according to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/12/03/784443227/kamala-harris-drops-out-of-presidential-race">NPR</a>.
The decision to withdraw from the race comes amidst reports of poor leadership and discipline at the Harris campaign. As <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/15/kamala-harris-campaign-2020-071105">Politico</a> reported last month, the power dynamic between two senior staffers — Juan Rodridguez, the campaign manager, and Maya Harris, the campaign chairwoman and younger sister to Kamala Harris — was especially problematic.
The turmoil resulted in Kelly Mehlenbacher, the Iowa operations director for Harris, opting to resign shortly after the campaign decided to focus all of its efforts on Iowa, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unacceptable-top-harris-aide-writes-scathing-resignation-letter">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported. 
Although Harris implies in her announcement that she may have been a more viable candidate with more financial support, many people first noticed that Harris was a flawed candidate after she failed to adequately respond to attacks on her record by Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) at the July presidential debate, despite having prepared for the topic to arise, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/29/us/politics/kamala-harris-2020.html">The New York Times</a>. 
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-most-searched-name-google-once-again-paul-bois">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, Gabbard took a sledgehammer to Harris: 
<blockquote>GABBARD: But I’m deeply concerned about this record. There are too many examples to cite but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.
She blocked evidence — she blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California.</blockquote>
The exchange helped make Gabbard the most-searched candidate of the night on Google. After the debate, Harris fired back at Gabbard by calling herself a “top-tier candidate.&#8221;
“This is going to sound immodest, but I’m obviously a top-tier candidate, and so I did expect that I would be on the stage and take hits tonight because there are a lot of people that are trying to make the stage for the next debate,” Gabbard told CNN’s Anderson Cooper after the debate, according to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/455691-harris-responds-to-gabbard-criticism-im-obviously-a-top-tier-candidate-so-i">The Hill</a>. “Especially when people are at zero or 1 percent or whatever she might be at, and so I did expect that I might take hits tonight.”
The next Democratic debate will be held in Los Angeles in mid-December, and will thus far feature six candidates: Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Tom Steyer, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/03/tom-steyer-qualifies-for-december-debate-074874">Politico</a>. The news agency also notes that Gabbard and Andrew Yang are on the “precipice” of making it, and both only require one additional qualifying poll.

Kamala Harris Drops Out Of Presidential Race

In a development that is already causing some on the Left to hit the panic button, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was a Republican before he was a Democrat, has officially thrown his hat in the ring for the Democratic presidential nomination — and he has immediately made a splash in the polls, overtaking almost all of the other Democratic candidates. While most believe he has no shot of winning either the primary or the election, some are worried that the moderate billionaire&#8217;s presence in the primary will help get Donald Trump re-elected.
A new <a href="https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/472629-bloomberg-overtakes-harris-in-new-poll">Hill-HarrisX poll</a> released Monday found that Bloomberg comes into the Democrats&#8217; 2020 primary race ahead of all but four of the other candidates.
With 6% of the Democratic vote, Bloomberg further buries struggling California Sen. Kamala Harris, who sits at just 2% with Bloomberg in the picture, as well as entrepreneur Andrew Yang, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Julian Castro, and Tom Steyer, all of whom likewise manage just 2%.
The Hill/HarrisX poll found former Vice President Joe Biden maintaining a healthy lead over the other contenders with 31% support. Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) sits in second with 15%, less than half of the support Biden is drawing, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who briefly enjoyed the Democratic frontrunner status, is down another five points from mid-November to just 10%.
The only other candidate to beat out Bloomberg is South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D), who has gained two points in the poll since a few weeks ago and now sits at 9%, just a point below Warren. All the other Democratic candidates manage just 1% or less.
The survey comes as two candidates recently dropped out — former Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) — while billionaire Tom Steyer jumped in. 
Bloomberg&#8217;s entrance into the race has some on the Left worried about the larger implications. While he&#8217;s not widely consider a true contender, his status, economic resources, and more moderate political positions could end up impacting the race in negative ways for those wanting to see Trump do down.
In an op-ed for The Hill published Sunday, Paul Bledsoe explains why Bloomberg, while unable to win, &#8220;<a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/472486-bloomberg-cant-win-but-he-could-help-reelect-trump">could help reelect Trump</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;For most Democrats, rightly fixated on beating Donald Trump, <a class="rollover-people-link" href="https://thehill.com/people/michael-bloomberg" data-nid="440971">Michael Bloomberg</a>’s campaign for President is about the last thing they need,&#8221; writes Bledsoe. &#8220;The bitter irony is that Bloomberg, a mega-billionaire, lifelong Republican, and New York conservative, has no chance of actually winning this year’s populist-leaning Democratic nomination himself. But his candidacy holds a host of dangers for Democrats and could complicate their efforts to defeat Trump.&#8221;
Bloomberg&#8217;s presence in the Democratic primary &#8220;risks further dividing Democrats over issues of extreme wealth and economic fairness, emboldening far left candidates like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and their supporters who see Bloomberg as the embodiment of the problem,&#8221; Bledsoe suggests. &#8220;In fact, Bloomberg’s money-fueled campaign seems to mirror or even legitimize Trump’s political approach of 2016.&#8221; 
Most &#8220;dangerous&#8221; for Democrats, Bledsoe argues, is Bloomberg’s potential to wage a &#8220;massive TV ad&#8221; campaign that may allow him to &#8220;purchase just enough support in the huge Super Tuesday and other now early mega-primaries to prevent the Democrats from giving any single candidate a majority of delegates.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-impeachment-report-heres-all-the-evidence-democrats-are-ignoring">Related: GOP Impeachment Report: Here’s All The Evidence Democrats Are Ignoring</a>

Bloomberg Shakes Up Race: Blows By Most Democrats, Sparks Worries Of Helping Elect Trump

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Only days after Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) announced her campaign would set its sights on Iowa at the expense of other early primary states, Kelly Mehlenbacher, the Iowa operations director for the Harris campaign, wrote a scathing letter of resignation, calling out the campaign for its poor treatment of staff and ineffective leadership. 
“This is my third presidential campaign and I have never seen an organization treat its staff so poorly,” wrote Mehlenbacher in the resignation letter, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/29/us/politics/kamala-harris-2020.html">The New York Times</a>. “While I still believe that Senator Harris is the strongest candidate to win in the General Election in 2020, I no longer have confidence in our campaign or its leadership.”
“It is not acceptable to me that we encouraged people to move from Washington, DC to Baltimore only to lay them off with no notice, with no plan for the campaign, and without thoughtful consideration of the personal consequences to them or the consequences that their absence would have on the remaining staff,” continued Mehlenbacher. “It is unacceptable that we would lay off anyone that we hired only weeks earlier. It is unacceptable that with less than 90 days until lowa we still do not have a real plan to win.”
“Campaigns have highs and lows, mistakes and miscalculations, lessons learned and adjustments made. But because we have refused to confront our mistakes, foster an environment of critical thinking and honest feedback, or trust the expertise of talented staff, we find ourselves making the same unforced errors over and over. And, it certainly does not help the team to read about campaign discord in Politico (or various other publications) because those with things to say have decided the best way to air their grievances is in the press instead of to leadership.”
Infighting at the Harris campaign was previously highlighted by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/15/kamala-harris-campaign-2020-071105">Politico</a> earlier this month. The news agency noted that the complaints focused on the power dynamic between two senior staffers: Juan Rodriguez, the campaign manager, and Maya Harris, campaign chairwoman and younger sister to Kamala Harris. 
Although Mehlenbacher wrote that she still believes Harris has the best chance of beating President Trump in a general election, she has since joined the Bloomberg campaign as a deputy chief operating officer, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/11/28/michael-bloomberg-swipes-top-staffer-from-kamala-harris-presidential-campaign/">New York Post</a>. 
The resignation letter was published as part of an extensive New York Times investigation to determine how the Harris campaign “unraveled.” The investigation involved interviews with “more than 50 current and former campaign staffers and allies,” and revealed other particularly weak areas within the campaign, including the fact that young, far-left communications staffers had a distorted view of what issues matter to voters. 
Despite representing a state with nearly 40 million people, Harris is currently polling in fifth place, almost 10 points behind Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClear Politics</a> average. Entrepreneur Andrew Yang, who has no prior political experience, is in sixth place, and polling within one point of Harris. 
The next Democratic presidential primary debate will be held at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California on December 19th, and will be hosted by PBS and Politico.

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‘Unacceptable’: Top Harris Aide Writes Scathing Resignation Letter

During a campaign stop in Iowa on Saturday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) distinguished herself from the likes of rival candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) by proclaiming that she is “not a socialist.”
<blockquote>I&#8217;m not trying to upend and blow up systems. I&#8217;m not trying to start a revolution. I am not a socialist, okay? So, there you go. But what I do know is this – capitalism assumes that everyone is starting out on the same base, and then people will compete, and the best will rise. Well, in American today, the majority of people aren&#8217;t starting out on the same base, and we&#8217;ve got to lift people up and in particular working people and working families. So, a large part of my agenda is focused on that.</blockquote>
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In Washington, IA <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KamalaHarris</a> says &#8220;we are at the stage of the campaign where contrasts need to be made.&#8221;
&#8220;I am not trying to upend and blow up systems. I am not trying to start a revolution. I am not a socialist.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IACaucus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IACaucus</a> <a href="https://t.co/xf4QTb3gqX">pic.twitter.com/xf4QTb3gqX</a>
— Musadiq Bidar (@Bidar411) <a href="https://twitter.com/Bidar411/status/1198280999337156611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
Harris has been struggling to gain support in the months leading up to the Iowa Democratic caucuses on February 3, 2020.
Following a much ballyhooed confrontation with former Vice President Joe Biden during the first Democratic primary debate in late-June, Harris experienced a sharp rise in national polls. During that brief period of time, Harris became a top-tier candidate.
Over the course of the next two months, however, the senator’s gains were essentially erased. Support for Harris’ candidacy has continued to dwindle ever since. As of publication, Harris sits in fourth place nationally with just 4%, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> national polling average.
In Iowa, Harris is in sixth place (3.3%), behind Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN). In New Hampshire, Harris is in tenth place (1.7%), behind Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Andrew Yang, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), and billionaire Tom Steyer.
Even in Harris’ home state of California, she places a distant fourth with just 8% support, according to <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/ca/california_democratic_primary-6879.html">RCP</a>.
On the other end of the race, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is a loud and proud “democratic socialist.”
During an October interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Sanders differentiated himself from rival Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), <a href="https://youtu.be/tBfFr3kegJI">saying</a>: “There are differences between Elizabeth and myself. Elizabeth I think, as you know, has said that she is a capitalist through her bones. I’m not.”
Socialism has gained renewed attention in the United States as Sens. Sanders and Warren, who currently sit second and third place in the national polls, have proposed policies that would allow the federal government to play a much larger role in the everyday lives of American citizens. These policies include Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, and student debt relief, among others.
Polling indicates that socialism is at least somewhat popular among younger voters.
According to a September 2019 <a href="https://www.victimsofcommunism.org/2019-annual-poll">survey</a> by YouGov/Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, “70% of Millennials say they would be at least somewhat likely to vote for a socialist candidate.”
The survey also notes that “about one-in-five Millennials (22%) believe that ‘society would be better if all private property was abolished,’ compared to 1% of the Silent Generation.”
<a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/240725/democrats-positive-socialism-capitalism.aspx">Gallup</a> reports that from 2010 to 2018, the percentage of Democrats with a “positive view of socialism” has increased by 4% (53% to 57%).
“Americans aged 18 to 29 are as positive about socialism (51%) as they are about capitalism (45%). This represents a 12-point decline in young adults&#8217; positive views of capitalism in just the past two years and a marked shift since 2010, when 68% viewed it positively. Meanwhile, young people&#8217;s views of socialism have fluctuated somewhat from year to year, but the 51% with a positive view today is the same as in 2010,” according to Gallup.

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WATCH: Kamala Harris Declares That She Is ‘Not A Socialist’

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) suggested late last week that she would &#8220;snatch&#8221; patents from private companies if they did not abide by her orders so that the government could &#8220;take over.&#8221;
&#8220;My plan, as a candidate for president, on these drug prices is as follows: We are going to set drug prices based on fair market,&#8221; Harris said during a campaign stop in Iowa on Friday. &#8220;So, essentially what we&#8217;re going to do – and you can visit the website if you will, and if not, get you some documents – but essentially what we&#8217;re going to do is set drug prices so that American consumers are charged a price for drugs that&#8217;s the average price that&#8217;s being charged around the globe.&#8221;
&#8220;And there&#8217;s a huge difference, insulin being an example,&#8221; Harris continued. &#8220;The other thing is this, if people don&#8217;t want to cooperate with that, I&#8217;m also going to do the next thing, which is this: A lot of drugs, prescription medication, was born out of the federal funding for the research and development of that drug. Your taxpayer dollars.&#8221;
&#8220;So, for any drug where they fail to play by our rules, and if that drug came about from federal funding for what&#8217;s called &#8216;R&amp;D,&#8217; research and development, I will snatch their patent so that we will take over,&#8221; Harris continued.
The audience asked if Harris was legally allowed to do that, to which Harris responded, &#8220;Yes, we can do that! Yes, yes, we can do that! Yes, we can do that. The question is whether you have the will to do it. I have the will to do it.&#8221;
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Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris on if drug companies do not comply with her mandatory set drug prices: “I will snatch their patent so that we will take over” 
Audience asks: “can we do that?”
“Yes, we can do that! Yes, we can do that! &#8230; I have the will to do it” <a href="https://t.co/gpU8nnGt6h">pic.twitter.com/gpU8nnGt6h</a>
&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1198113793848438784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) responded on Twitter, <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1198292802087661571">writing</a>: &#8220;Nope. Patents are unequivocally protected in the US Constitution. Even if they weren’t, it doesn’t take a genius to understand that stealing people’s property after they make it means THEY WON’T MAKE IT ANYMORE. Fewer drugs, fewer cures. Bad policy.&#8221;
Trump Campaign Rapid Response Director Andrew Clark <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewHClark/status/1198068326129446912">wrote</a>: &#8220;A) No, actually, you cannot do that. B) Also, the government does not (and should not!) manufacture drugs. C) This is terrifying.&#8221;
Washington Examiner editor Jay Caruso <a href="https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/1198239311268847616">wrote</a>: &#8220;It’s funny how candidates complaining the need to stop Trump and his authoritarianism are promising to behave like authoritarians.&#8221;
Lawyer and National Review contributor Dan McLaughlin <a href="https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1198048989486161921">wrote</a>: &#8220;Democrats think the President heads the legislative branch.&#8221;
Psychology professor Geoffrey Miller <a href="https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1198279707810127872">wrote</a>: &#8220;TFW you realize a presidential candidate doesn&#8217;t understand anything about intellectual property, research funding, incentives, unintended consequences, game theory, or killing gooses that lay golden eggs.&#8221;
Scott Adams <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1198245785701236738">wrote</a>: &#8220;Audio seems slowed to make her seem not-too-bright, but I think that was overkill in this case. The content makes the case.&#8221;
Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies, <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkSKrikorian/status/1198231814952947712">wrote</a>: &#8220;Our future People&#8217;s Commissar of Pharmaceuticals.&#8221;
Harris&#8217; presidential campaign has been on a downward trend for months after reaching its peak in June after Harris attacked former Vice President Joe Biden during one of the Democratic debates.
“Because her bump was based largely on the one event, it wasn’t really baked in, and voters looked around for another candidate that might excite their interest,” Monmouth University polling director Patrick Murray <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/11/20/20953284/kamala-harris-polls-2020-election">said</a>. “The bigger problem is that she did not have the kind of base in the early states that would have helped sustained her momentum in Iowa and New Hampshire, if not nationally.”

Harris Proposes Government ‘Take Over’ Of Private Industry If Her Orders Not Obeyed

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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) criticized Democratic presidential rival and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Thursday for comparing the discrimination that he felt as a gay man to the historic civil rights abuses of black Americans.
&#8220;Those of us who&#8217;ve been involved in civil rights for a long time, we know that it is important that we not compare our struggles,&#8221; Harris said during a Black Women Power Breakfast hosted by Higher Heights, a national political organization for black women. &#8220;It is not productive, it is not smart and strategically, [and] it works against what we need to do which is build coalition.&#8221;
&#8220;We know that in our ongoing fight for civil rights if any one of us starts to differentiate ourselves in a certain way and, in particular, what he did on the stage,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s just not productive and I think it&#8217;s a bit naïve.&#8221;
Harris added that &#8220;there&#8217;s no equating those two experiences.&#8221;
The California lawmaker&#8217;s remarks were in reference to an answer Buttigieg provided during the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s fifth presidential primary debate on Wednesday. While on the debate state, Harris lamented the treatment of black Americans, whom she contended are the backbone of the Democratic Party despite their needs often being overlooked or otherwise taken for granted.
Buttigieg, who has been struggling to gain traction with African-American voters, responded to the criticism in agreement and put forth that he &#8220;welcome[s] the challenge of connecting with black voters in American who don&#8217;t yet know me.&#8221; He further noted that he can relate to how black voters feel because of the discrimination he has felt for his sexuality.
&#8220;I care about this because while I do not have the experience of ever having been discriminated against because of the color of my skin, I do have the experience of sometimes feeling like a stranger in my own country,&#8221; Buttigieg said at the time. &#8220;Turning on the news and seeing my own rights come up for debate, and seeing my rights expanded by a coalition of people like me and people not at all like me, working side by side, shoulder to shoulder, making it possible for me to be standing here wearing this wedding ring in a way that couldn&#8217;t have happened two elections ago, lets me know just how deep my obligation is to help those whose rights are on the line every day — even if they are nothing like me in their experience.&#8221;
However, this is not the first time that Harris has referred to Buttigieg as &#8220;naïve.&#8221; Earlier in November, she went after him for stating that the primary race is beginning to winnow down to only two candidates, himself and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
&#8220;Well, I think that&#8217;s just, that it&#8217;s naïve for him to think that at this point that the fate of this election has been determined,&#8221; Harris responded to his comment. &#8220;Just look at history. He might need to review to know that what&#8217;s happening right now is not necessarily determinative of the outcome.&#8221;

Democratic Presidential Candidates Participate In Debate In Atlanta, Georgia

Harris Criticizes Buttigieg For Comparing Black ‘Struggles’ To The LGBTQ Community

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On Thursday’s episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” the Daily Wire editor-in-chief talks about the lack of strategy that ultimately derailed the fifth Democratic debate. Video and partial transcript below: 
[Wednesday night] was the big Democratic debate! It was gonna be rock ‘em, sock ‘em robots. I predicted many attacks on Elizabeth Warren, I had predicted that Buttigieg would go after Warren, and maybe Klobucher would go after Buttigieg, and everybody would go after — yeah, none of that happened. Instead, they just massaged each other&#8217;s shoulders. 
This is horrible strategy. If you&#8217;re at the bottom of this pack — if you are Cory Booker, for example, or Kamala Harris — if you&#8217;re one of these characters who literally has no shot of winning the nomination, then why are you sitting around waiting? What are you waiting for? 
If you&#8217;re Kamala Harris, and you’re best known for cackling like a hyena, why exactly would you be sitting around waiting for everybody to sort of come around to you? If you&#8217;re Cory Booker, why would you just be standing — I mean, I understand Cory Booker is actually running for vice president at this point, he has no shot at the nomination, we all get that. But even if you&#8217;re one of the top candidates, why are you not jockeying for position? 
It is bewildering to me, particularly because Elizabeth Warren is incredibly vulnerable. I understand why Buttigieg didn’t go after Warren — he&#8217;s rising, Warren&#8217;s falling. He feels like if I attack Warren, there&#8217;s really no upside for me. What I don&#8217;t understand is why Warren isn&#8217;t attacking Buttigieg, because Buttigieg is taking away her support, not Joe Biden’s support. 
Now, maybe she&#8217;s perceiving this thing wrong. Maybe Elizabeth Warren thinks that Buttigieg is the one who is grabbing Biden support? But that is not actually true. It&#8217;s not actually true. Why is Bernie Sanders not going after Warren? If he wants to regain any sort of mojo here, he has to take back the Elizabeth Warren crowd, and bring it back into his column because he ain&#8217;t going nowhere. He&#8217;s not running first in Iowa, he&#8217;s not running first in New Hampshire — he is running first [in] zero states, zero places. He&#8217;s running third to fourth nationally. So what is Bernie Sanders doing? 
Instead, they&#8217;ll get up there and they just hug it out, man. They just hug it out because, I suppose, they think at this point, it’s better to sort of be in a holding pattern, right? “It&#8217;s still early, we still have three months until Iowa.” Maybe they think, “Okay, well, if we just wait this thing out in the field, we&#8217;ll sort of shake itself out.” Whatever it was, it was, overall, a very boring debate. I don&#8217;t think that anything really changed. But it was, as usual, an ad for Donald Trump. 
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It was an ad for Donald Trump because the Democrats policies are so radical, they are so wild — and these candidates are incredibly, incredibly off-putting. The more people see of Elizabeth Warren, the less they like her. The more people see of Buttigieg, the more they like him, except when he actually reveals his true face, which is that he&#8217;s an extraordinarily radical candidate. He doesn&#8217;t like to reveal that too often. He made that mistake early in the campaign. He campaigned as a moderate, started to rise, moved to the Left, and then immediately fell. He’s campaigning as a moderate again and starting to rise again. But whenever people see the real Pete Buttigieg, it&#8217;s a problem. The good news for Pete Buttigieg is that [he] is able to mask that really well. 
Joe Biden — everybody knows who he is — so there&#8217;s a lot of talk today about Joe Biden falling down on the job, Joe Biden having a bad debate. The reason people are saying that Joe Biden had a bad debate is because Joe Biden was basically somnambulant during this entire primary season, right here. He&#8217;s basically a sleepwalker. He is comatose, he is not alive — if you shot electricity through his body, perhaps he would move &#8230; But that&#8217;s all priced in at this point. 
Then Bernie Sanders is just Bernie Sanders. He will always be Bernie Sanders. One hundred years from now, Bernie Sanders will be Bernie Sanders, because he always was Bernie Sanders. He&#8217;s the high school principal from “Back To The Future” — that dude never had hair. Bernie Sanders was always a crazed old loon bag, even when he was 25. 
So did anything change last night? The answer really is no, but the people that helps are Buttigieg and Biden. It does not help Warren, it does not help Sanders.
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SHAPIRO: The Dem Debate Was Just A Big Ad For President Trump

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) suggested on Thursday morning that two of the main reasons she is not polling as a top-tier contender in the Democratic primary is because she has less name recognition than the frontrunners and is struggling to bring in enough money to promote her campaign, which she blamed on the need for campaign finance reform.
&#8220;So moving forward strategically for your campaign, what are the challenges? How do we get the debate stage down to two or three candidates and how do you make sure Kamala Harris is one of them?&#8221; MSNBC co-host Mika Brzezinski asked Harris during an appearance on &#8220;Morning Joe.&#8221;
&#8220;The reality, you know &#8212; I&#8217;m just into real talk at that point &#8212; I mean, the reality is that the top of the, you know, the top of the field many have been on the stage for decades,&#8221; Harris responded. &#8220;They&#8217;re familiar, they&#8217;re known, and they have name I.D. for that reason. And so my challenge is to up my name I.D. and introduce myself to people.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, a large part of it is the fundraising piece. I need to raise the money to be on TV in Iowa, you know, as soon as possible. That&#8217;s just a crude fact of running for president,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And until we have campaign finance reform, which will be one of my first areas of focus when elected, until that happens, that&#8217;s a part of the process.&#8221;
Harris&#8217; campaign, which has been described recently as hemorrhaging cash, has been dramatically restructuring its staff nationwide, including both layoffs as well as redeployments, according to a memo obtained by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/30/kamala-harris-campaign-layoffs-061112">Politico</a>. The California lawmaker laid off all of her New Hampshire field organizers and is closing all three field offices in the state as she has been struggling to gain traction. The campaign tried to tamp down alarm bells of an impending end to her presidential run, stating that the move is simply &#8220;a strategic decision to realign resources and go all-in on Iowa.&#8221;
While Harris&#8217; campaign pivots to focus on winning Iowa, the presidential hopeful has slipped into sixth place in the latest poll coming out of the Hawkeye state. Harris is tied with Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), entrepreneur Andrew Yang, financier Tom Steyer and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) at 3%, according to a poll conducted by the <a href="https://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/11/16/rel4a_ia.pdf">Des Moines Register/CNN</a> in mid-November.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has been consistently leading the field nationwide. Biden, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) appear to have significantly pulled away from the rest of the pack in both nationwide and early state polls.
This is not the first time that Harris has made an excuse for her struggling campaign. She suggested earlier in November that the ability for Americans to elect her as president of the United States may ultimately be hindered by her race and her gender, not her politics or personality. The California lawmaker put forth that the &#8220;elephant in the room about her campaign&#8221; is her electability, which she argued &#8220;is America ready for a woman, and a woman of color, to be president of the United States?&#8221;
However, polling has shown neither race nor gender to be a significant factor in Democrats’ electability during the 2020 election.
As of publication, Harris sits at just under 5% support among Democratic primary voters nationwide, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html#polls">Real Clear Politics</a> national polling average. She has not hit double digits in the polls since August 2019.

Kamala Harris Gets ‘Real’ About Why She’s Not A Frontrunner

Four Democratic 2020 candidates have signed a letter requesting an independent investigation in sexual abuse allegations against NBC. The presidential candidates signed the letter ahead of Wednesday night’s debate, which is co-sponsored by MSNBC. The candidates have so far given no indication that they will pull out of the debate if MSNBC and NBC’s parent company, Comcast, does not agree to their request.
Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) signed the letter earlier this week and addressed it to Tom Perez, the current chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Huffington Post first <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/warren-sanders-press-investigation-nbc-toxic-culture-democratic-debate_n_5dd35799e4b0263fbc99a8ea">reported</a> on the letter Tuesday morning, writing that the candidates expressed concern that a debate hosted by MSNBC would send the wrong message to victims of sexual abuse if its parent company didn’t agree to an outside investigation into NBC.
“We, the undersigned candidates, are very concerned about the message it would send to sexual assault survivors if our next debate is sponsored by MSNBC without clear commitments from Comcast, the parent company of NBC and MSNBC, to conduct an independent investigation into the toxic culture that enabled abusers and silenced survivors,” the candidates wrote in <a href="https://d2486uwqr5x79k.cloudfront.net/images/DNC_letter_NBC_candidates.pdf">the letter</a>.
The candidates go on to suggest that the five-month long internal investigation into the allegations was inadequate, since it determined that NBC News executives could not be faulted when formal complaints were not made.
“Yet, there is clearly something wrong with a work environment reluctant to hold management accountable. That&#8217;s what allowed the behavior of powerful abusers inside the company to go unchecked. The troubling reports about management’s role to cover up abuse demonstrate that Comcast should have and needs to do more to shift the work culture and pursue significant structural changes in order to prevent future harassment and abuse at NBC and MSNBC. Until that happens, employees are at risk,” the candidates wrote.
The senators suggest that President Donald Trump has been “credibly accused” (a term used these days for every allegation against someone right-leaning, whether the accusation is credible or not) of sexual assault, and therefore Democrats must “offer voters a clear and unquestionable difference come November when it comes to these important issues.”
“We can not do that when we prop up and support companies that have systematically covered up numerous indicents [sic] of sexual violence with no accountability or changes of leadership,” the senators continued.
“It is critical that the Democratic National Committee make clear that they support survivors of sexual harassment and abuse by ensuring that Comcast and NBC News take steps to clean up the toxic culture that exists across their networks,” the candidates concluded.
The  co-sponsorship of the debate has been known for some time, yet these candidates just released the letter this week. As NBC <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/4-democratic-candidates-call-independent-inquiry-nbc-over-alleged-sexual-n1086046">reported</a>, the letter was coordinated by UltraViolet, a women’s group that insists all allegations of sexual assault made by women must be believed. This is an organization that says it still believes Christine Blasey Ford, who claimed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers 30 years ago. No evidence exists that the two had ever even met, and Ford’s own friend from the time says that not only does she not remember Kavanaugh or any incident like the one Ford described, but that Ford’s attorneys pressured her to tell a different story. UltraViolet also says it still believes Anita Hill, who accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment even as she followed him from job to job.
Nowhere in the letter do the Democratic candidates suggest they would avoid Wednesday’s debate if Comcast does not agree to an independent investigation.

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Democrat Candidates Urge NBC To Open Independent Inquiry Into Sexual Abuse Ahead Of Debate

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Former Vice President Joe Biden has been receiving widespread blowback from his Democratic primary rivals since voicing his support for a federal ban on recreational marijuana.
While speaking at a town hall event on Saturday, Biden said that while he believes that states &#8220;should be able to make a judgment to legalize marijuana&#8221; and even supports the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, his opposition to recreational marijuana use &#8220;hasn&#8217;t changed.&#8221;
&#8220;The truth of the matter is, there&#8217;s not nearly been enough evidence that has been acquired as to whether or not it is a gateway drug. It&#8217;s a debate, and I want a lot more before I legalize it nationally,&#8221; Biden told a crowd of his supporters. &#8220;I want to make sure we know a lot more about the science behind it.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s not irrational to do more scientific investigations to determine, which we have not done significantly enough, whether or not there are any things that relate to whether it&#8217;s a gateway drug or not,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know enough to know whether it is.&#8221;
While the Democratic frontrunner is not the sole presidential hopeful calling to keep marijuana illegal under federal law, he has been receiving criticism from his primary challengers for the position.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), who oversaw the prosecution of nearly 2,000 marijuana convictions while serving as San Francisco&#8217;s District Attorney, has recently flipped her stance on legalization of the drug and even joked about smoking while she was a student at Howard University.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s be clear: marijuana isn&#8217;t a gateway drug and should be legalized,&#8221; Harris responded to Biden. &#8220;Glad to see my bill with Rep. [Jerry] Nadler take the next step in the House this week.&#8221;
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Let&#39;s be clear: marijuana isn&#39;t a gateway drug and should be legalized. Glad to see my bill with Rep. Nadler take the next step in the House this week. <a href="https://t.co/d6BcMFlpYT">https://t.co/d6BcMFlpYT</a>
&mdash; Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1196473557833932803?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Accordingly, the California lawmaker <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/2227/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22marijuana%22%5D%7D&amp;r=32&amp;s=1">introduced legislation</a> into the Senate in July which would not only decriminalize and deschedule marijuana, but also provide for reinvestment into certain individuals who have been convicted of drug crimes.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a longtime advocate of marijuana legalization, also scolded Biden for his opposition.
&#8220;The American people are united on issue after issue,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;We must legalize marijuana now &#8212; and expunge all past marijuana convictions as a matter of racial and economic justice.&#8221;
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The American people are united on issue after issue. We must legalize marijuana now—and expunge all past marijuana convictions as a matter of racial and economic justice. <a href="https://t.co/NQjp7WOko3">https://t.co/NQjp7WOko3</a>
&mdash; Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1196196982425038848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Less than a month ago, the self-styled democratic socialist unveiled a sweeping proposal where he would use his executive power as president of the United States to both federally legalize the drug and expunge related criminal convictions. Sanders argues that the law disproportionately targets minorities and &#8220;ruined the lives of millions of Americans,&#8221; as reported by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bernie-sanders-offers-marijuana-legalization-plan/2019/10/24/c44a45ba-f5c4-11e9-ad8b-85e2aa00b5ce_story.html">The Washington Post</a>.
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang also echoed similar sentiments, calling to resolve the ambiguity and legalize marijuana at the federal level.
&#8220;Marijuana should be legal nationwide,&#8221; Yang said. &#8220;It is already legal in several states, it reflects a safer approach to pain relief than opiates, and our administration of drug laws is deeply uneven and racist.&#8221;
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Marijuana should be legal nationwide. It is already legal in several states, it reflects a safer approach to pain relief than opiates, and our administration of drug laws is deeply uneven and racist. <a href="https://t.co/0Uhl17MW98">https://t.co/0Uhl17MW98</a>
&mdash; Andrew Yang🧢 (@AndrewYang) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1196456686875099136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Yang has previously stated that legalization would not only improve safety and social equity, but would also generate tens of billions of dollars in new revenue based on legal cannabis businesses.

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As Sen. Kamala Harris’ (D-CA) campaign for her party’s presidential nomination continues to implode, some in the media are looking for answers.
ABC News shot first, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/kamala-harris-proof-america-ready-woman-color-president/story?id=66610615&amp;cid=social_twitter_abcn">asking</a> if Harris “proof that America isn&#8217;t ready for a woman of color as president?” The article began with quotes from Harris making the argument herself.
She had previously spoken about her “electability” several times, and in May she went ahead and wondered whether “America was ready for a woman and a woman of color to be president of the United State of America.” She made the claim on “The View.” This statement set her up with the tired and ready-made excuse in case she lost the primary: It’s because America is racist and misogynist.
Of course, that ignores the two elections of former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 nomination. It also ignores the fact that she is currently in a Democratic primary, meaning the people she is calling racist and sexist are her fellow Democrats.
This point seemed lost on ABC as well, since it asked if “America” was ready for a black woman of president, when they were really asking if Democrats were ready for a black woman nominee.
Regardless, the notion that Harris’ failing campaign has anything to do with her sex or race is absurd. She is a bad candidate, like so many others in presidential primaries. She had a terrible track record as a prosecutor in California. She got national attention when she became a senator and seemed to be a star in her party. She thought that was enough to get her the nomination.
But she was not the only Democratic star to run. She’s had to contend with former Vice President Joe Biden and Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont. They were all also Democrat stars. There was also Sen. Cory Booker, whose campaign never really flourished, and former Rep. Robert “Beto” O’Rourke, who started on a high but quickly fizzled.
Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2019/11/15/kamala-harris-campaign-2020-071105">reported</a> Friday that Harris’ campaign aides told the outlet there was a lack of leadership and “discipline” in the campaign. Staffers told Politico that campaign manager Juan Rodriguez and Harris’ younger sister, Maya, are at odds among senior leadership. One senior staffer said Rodriguez has “all the responsibility with none of the authority,” while another said Rodriguez “chose to defer to Maya” instead of taking the lead.
A few weeks ago, Harris laid off most of her New Hampshire staff in order to focus on Iowa, a move that appeared to be an indication her campaign was flailing.
As The Daily Wire’s Eric Quintanar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/turmoil-at-team-harris-campaign-wasted-her-talent">reported</a>, Harris’ campaign has struggled from the start, beginning with her struggle to decide whether she supported the elimination of the private health insurance industry.
She had a shining moment at the first debate where she called out Biden’s prior opposition to busing, but a month later she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-now-same-page-biden-when-it-comes-ashe-schow">walked back her position</a>, saying she was merely open to busing. In another debate, Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard was able to knock Harris off her guard by bringing up the fact that the former California prosecutor “put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations” and later laughed about smoking marijuana herself.
Harris’ campaign failures are the result of her past as a ruthless prosecutor and her inability to pick a policy position on multiple issues. Her campaign woes are her own failures and cannot be blamed on her skin color or sex.

Kamala Harris’ Campaign In Free Fall, ABC Blames ‘America’

As Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) struggles to maintain relevance in the ever-narrowing presidential primary field, campaign aides have been complaining about the lack of leadership and “discipline” among members of her senior campaign staff, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/15/kamala-harris-campaign-2020-071105">Politico</a>. 
After interviewing “more than a dozen current and former staffers as well as others close to the campaign, including donors,” the news agency has discovered that “rank and file aides are fed up with the weak leadership and uncertainty around integral communication, planning and executing of a clear vision.” 
One aide went so far as to suggest that Harris may have been unaware of the “severity” of the campaign’s financial issues, because nobody “wanted to tell her.” The news agency had previously <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/30/kamala-harris-campaign-layoffs-061112">reported</a> that the Harris campaign spent $2.8 million more than they raised in the third quarter of 2019. 
Many of the complaints focus on the dynamic between two senior staffers: Juan Rodriguez, the campaign manager, and Maya Harris, the campaign chairwoman and younger sister to Kamala Harris. 
One senior campaign staffer told Politico that Rodriguez has had “all the responsibility with none of the authority,” and has been forced to manage the “race with at least one, if not two, hands tied behind his back.” Others blame Rodriguez for the campaign’s failures, with one aide claiming Rodriguez “chose to defer to Maya” at times when the opportunity for leadership presented itself, according to the news agency.  
Another campaign aide told the news agency that the way the campaign was structured and run “wasted her talent more than she blew it.”
On Friday, a <a href="https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/mkt/12/8684/8604/Topline%20Reuters%202020%20Election%20Tracker%2011%2014%202019.pdf">Reuters/Ipsos</a> survey showed that Harris is now polling at 3% nationally, tied with Michael Bloomberg, who is currently not running. And although Harris staffers may want to blame the first-term senator’s declining relevance on the campaign’s leadership, Harris has shown time and time again that she is her own worst advocate. 
Shortly after she announced her candidacy, Harris told <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/29/politics/harris-private-insurance-medicare/index.html">CNN</a> host Jake Tapper that she would be in favor of eliminating the private insurance industry. At the June democratic debate, Harris raised her hand when the candidates were asked if they were in favor of abolishing private health insurance, only to backtrack the following day, according to <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/news/campaigns/kamala-harris-backtracks-eliminating-private-health-insurance">Roll Call</a>. 
In one of her most tone-deaf moments, Harris laughed on “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh_wQUjeaTk">The Breakfast Club</a>” podcast about the fact that she used to smoke marijauna in college. At the August debate, The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-most-searched-name-google-once-again-paul-bois">Daily Wire</a> reported that Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) said she was “deeply concerned” about the fact that Harris “put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations,” yet was willing to laugh about her own relationship with the drug. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-jailing-drug-company-executives-a-matter-of-justice">The Daily Wire</a> also previously reported that, at the October debate, Harris called the idea of jailing drug company executives “a matter of justice.”
<blockquote>LACEY: Senator Harris, you want to hold the drug manufacturers that fueled the crisis accountable. Are you in favor of sending those drug company executives to jail?
HARRIS: I am. And I will tell you, as a former prosecutor, I do think of it as being a matter of justice and accountability because they are nothing more than some high-level dope dealers …</blockquote>

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