Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)  trashed Senator Tim Scott&#8217;s (R-SC) policing bill  as “deeply flawed and not salvageable” in a tweet in which he also posted a joint letter with Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), blasting the legislation. 
The trio’s letter, addressed to Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), suggested the reform bill was a non-starter that was “so threadbare and lacking in substance that it does not even provide a proper baseline for negotiations.”
Scott announced the legislation last week along with six other GOP Senators, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). In  a press release, Scott, who is black, argued that “action must be taken to rebuild lost trust between communities of color and law enforcement.”
According to the senator’s office, the legislation is designed to promote policies that enable “significant change” while maintaining the Constitutional role of the federal government when it comes to local policing decisions. 
As <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-06-23/democrats-to-block-senate-gop-plan-on-police-reform-calling-it-too-weak">The Los Angeles Times</a> notes, the legislation provides a heavy emphasis on collecting data about use-of-force, increases de-escalation training and the use of body cameras, and creates a commission to study conditions affecting black boys and men.
But Schumer, Booker and Harris, have pushed back against bringing the legislation to the senate floor: “This bill is not salvageable and we need bipartisan talks to get to a constructive starting point.”
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Senator McConnell:
The Senate GOP bill fails to establish meaningful accountability for police.
It is deeply flawed and not salvageable.
We need REAL reform.
From Senator Booker, Senator Harris, and me: <a href="https://t.co/2pxT3mETjz">pic.twitter.com/2pxT3mETjz</a>
&mdash; Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1275483481687064576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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“We cannot proceed with what they’re offering. It’s empty. It’s empty,” Harris said on Tuesday, reports <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/23/kamala-harris-gop-police-336150">Politico</a>. “There’s no question that if we are in the majority in the Senate and that if Joe Biden were president there would be a lot more movement.”
&#8220;Republican introduced a watered-down policing bill, intent on obstructing meaningful change,&#8221; tweeted Harris. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t even begin to address the longstanding discrimination and abuses that have existed in the system.&#8221;
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Republicans introduced a watered-down policing bill, intent on obstructing meaningful change. It doesn&#39;t even begin to address the longstanding discrimination and abuses that have existed in the system.
Talking about this and more tonight at 8:30pm ET on <a href="https://twitter.com/AC360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AC360</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a>.
&mdash; Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1275574107233533952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Scott, who <a href="https://apnews.com/046cebfc2677896798df29c3b4a9004b">rejects</a> the idea of systemic racism, has been open about the number of times he’s been stopped by law enforcement, and still believes Democrats can and should work with his bill. 
“Why am I so passionate about this issue beyond my 18 stops as a person of color?” remarked Scott, reports <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/23/tim-scott-messages-racist-police-336650">Politico</a>. “In my legislation and the Republican Senate legislation and the House legislation there is so much common ground and to &#8230; lose this moment for the kids and the young adults watching this process would be terrible.”
Scott also believes &#8220;some people would rather run on police reform than accomplish it.&#8221;
Part two of today&#8217;s floor speech on the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JUSTICEAct?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JUSTICEAct</a>:
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Part two of today&#39;s floor speech on the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JUSTICEAct?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JUSTICEAct</a>:
Some would rather run on police reform than accomplishing it. I believe both sides have people to come to the table and solve the issues. Let’s do it. <a href="https://t.co/vWF3W7AcQ4">pic.twitter.com/vWF3W7AcQ4</a>
&mdash; Tim Scott (@SenatorTimScott) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorTimScott/status/1275548246870499334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden has reportedly narrowed his list of potential vice president running mates to six candidates as his selection process enters a second round of vetting.
The top names include failed Democrat presidential candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA) and Sen. Kamala Harris (CA). The other big name to appear on the list is former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice.
The other three names on Biden&#8217;s reported short list include Rep. Val Demings (D-FL), Atlanta Democrat Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, and New Mexico Democrat Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham.
&#8220;Biden&#8217;s vetting committee had conversations with a larger group of women earlier this spring; those continuing on in the process have been asked to turn over financial records, past writings and other documentation,&#8221; the Associated Press <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/bidens-vp-list-narrows-includes-warren-harris-susan-71224628">reported</a>. &#8220;Biden has had various public and private interactions with many of the women his vetting committee has considered thus far, but has not yet had any formal one-on-one interviews expressly to discuss the No. 2 spot on the ticket. Those aren’t expected for several weeks.&#8221;
Failed Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate and far-left activist Stacey Abrams told Stephen Colbert on &#8220;The Late Show&#8221; on Wednesday that she has not been contacted by Biden&#8217;s campaign about being considered for vice president, despite her aggressive campaigning to be selected.
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Rice would be a controversial pick for Biden given her extensive history of not being truthful about political scandals, including the Sept. 11, 2012 <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/10/21/fact-checking-the-benghazi-attacks-2/">attack</a> on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ari-fleischer-susan-rice-email-has-exposed-her-total-lie-about-being-unaware-of-the-flynn-unmasking">unmasking</a> of then-national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Warren also has a well documented history of dishonesty which analysts have said doomed her presidential campaign, including her &#8220;debunked allegation that she’d been fired from a school job for being pregnant, and her false claims that her kids had never attended private schools,&#8221; National Review <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/03/elizabeth-warren-campaign-undone-by-dishonesty-not-policy/">reported</a>.
Earlier this week, Biden said that he wanted to pick a &#8220;strong&#8221; running mate who would be &#8220;ready to be president on day one.&#8221;
“It’s really important that whomever you pick as a vice president agrees with you in terms of your philosophy of government and agrees with you on the systemic things that you wanna change,” Biden said. “And is, in fact, going to be able to be someone who is not at all intimidated by the president, not at all intimidated walking in the White House. And is going to be prepared to give their unvarnished opinion and be able to privately argue with the president if they disagree. I want someone strong. I want someone strong, and someone who can — who is ready to be president on day one.”
Many in the Democrat Party are reportedly pushing Biden to pick a minority woman to be his running mate due to the heightened racial tensions that have emerged in recent days over the death of George Floyd.
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With riots raging in cities across the nation, the odds that Rep. Val Demings will become Joe Biden&#8217;s running mate keep rising.
The 63-year-old Democrat is a former career law enforcement officer, serving as chief of police in Orlando, FL, for four years before entering politics.
&#8220;Florida Rep. Val Demings’ odds to be Joe Biden’s running mate continued to surge on Monday, moving up to +500 from +1200 at the beginning of last week and +2000 just two weeks ago,&#8221; according to <a href="https://bookies.com/news/joe-biden-vp-pick-odds">Bookies.com</a> political betting analyst Dan Kilbridge.
That puts Val Demings in second place, behind only Sen. Kamala Harris, who is also black. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who is white, continues to drop in the odds after a Minneapolis police officer was charged for the death of an unarmed black man on May 25.
&#8220;The gains made by Demings and, to a lesser degree, Harris are undoubtedly tied to Klobuchar’s slipping odds amid the unrest in Minneapolis and around the nation. The charges against the Minneapolis police officer further shines a spotlight on Klobuchar’s track record as Hennepin County prosecutor, which had already been a cause of concern for many progressives. Klobuchar was as high as +300 less than a week ago,&#8221; Kilbridge said.
Now, Klobuchar is at +800, as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has moved into third place, at +650. But Harris still has the best odds, at +125.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Biden has already pledged to pick a female running mate. After he told a black radio host that &#8220;if you have a problem figuring out whether you&#8217;re for me or Trump, then you ain&#8217;t black&#8221; — and amid race riots — political pundits and pollsters are predicting that the former vice president could well be under pressure to pick a black female as his running mate in 2020.
Demings has a slew of plusses. She brings the possibility that she could help deliver Florida, always a swing state in presidential elections.
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said this week that Biden faces &#8220;increasing pressure&#8221; to pick a black woman.
“He has already said that he’s guaranteed to choose a woman,” York said last week on <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fox News</a>. “And he’s under increasing pressure now for it to be a woman of color.”
“We’ve heard about Kamala Harris, we’ve heard about Stacey Abrams, we’ve heard about Val Demings, and he said they are all on his list right now,” York said.
Biden tried to assuage anger over his &#8220;you ain&#8217;t black&#8221; comment, expressing regret for his remarks during a phone conversation with The U.S. Black Chambers Inc.
“The bottom line of all of this perhaps I was much too cavalier,” Biden said. “I know that the comments have come off like I was taking the African-American vote for granted but nothing could be further from the truth … I shouldn’t have been such a wise guy.”
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Former Vice President and presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is expected to announce his running mate soon, and competition for the slot is heating up, particularly among female former contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is still in the running, according to behind-the-scenes reports, and she&#8217;s made major shifts in her policy agenda since concluding her presidential campaign. Last week, she officially abandoned her support for a socialist, &#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; health care plan &#8212; something she and Biden had tangled over in early Democratic debates.
Speaking to the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago, Warren said she is now more inclined to revising the Affordable Care Act, or &#8220;Obamacare,&#8221; than overhauling the American health care system into a fully single-payer operation, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/21/warren-vice-president-271938">according to Politico</a>.
&#8220;I think right now people want to see improvements in our health care system, and that means strengthening the Affordable Care Act,&#8221; she told students in a virtual lecture.
That&#8217;s a major pivot for the Massachusetts senator, who once made &#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; a hallmark of her presidential platform &#8212; a hallmark so important to her that she accused Biden of &#8220;running in the wrong presidential primary&#8221; when he refused to admit a &#8220;Medicare for All&#8221;-style overhaul was necessary to fix the ailing American healthcare system.
In a later interview, Warren said she &#8220;wasn&#8217;t sure&#8221; where Biden was &#8220;going&#8221; when he asked her whether Medicare for All would require an across-the-board tax hike, including on middle class families.
Biden, for his part, is a strong defender of Obamacare, something he considers to be a major Obama administration achievement. When confronting Warren over his and former President Obama&#8217;s health care policy, he called her approach to replacing Obamacare, “angry,” “elitist,” “condescending” per Politico.
Now, Warren is trying to smooth over the divide, likely because Biden is about to select a running mate, and she&#8217;s still technically available.
&#8220;Warren’s policy-centered, team-player pitch is counting on Biden caring more about Jan. 20 than Nov. 3, when he makes his vice presidential pick,&#8221; the outlet reported Thursday. &#8220;In other words, that the current crisis has elevated governing concerns above political ones — and that the times call for someone with her policy chops and, yes, plans.&#8221;
She&#8217;s also issued a number of policy outlines, including a full coronavirus response document, and she&#8217;s said to be working closely with Biden&#8217;s own policy teams on his presidential platform.
She is up against stiff competition, however. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is also angling for the job, as is Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who proudly announced, earlier this week, that she&#8217;d begun preliminary conversations with Biden over the Veep slot. Georgia&#8217;s Democratic minority leader Stacey Abrams and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) are also said to still be in the running.
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Democrat Sen. Kamala Harris (CA) has introduced a resolution seeking to condemn calling the coronavirus the &#8220;Chinese virus&#8221; or the &#8220;Wuhan virus&#8221; as being racist, which is a talking point that has been <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/cnn-acknowledges-chinas-covid-19-propaganda-yet-parrots-claim-that-chinese-virus-is-racist-anyway">promoted</a> by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in an attempt to deflect responsibility over the fact that the pandemic originated in Wuhan, China.
Harris&#8217; resolution seeks to condemn &#8220;all manifestations or expressions of racism, xenophobia&#8221; and &#8220;scapegoating&#8221; by condemning &#8220;anti-Asian terminology&#8221; that she claims includes &#8220;Chinese Virus&#8221; and &#8220;Wuhan Virus.&#8221;
It’s false to suggest that referring to the coronavirus by a name that denotes its place of origin is somehow racist.
The Federalist <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/13/17-diseases-named-after-places-or-people/">highlighted</a> just a few examples of diseases that have been named after their place of origin:
<blockquote>West Nile Virus: Named after the West Nile District of Uganda discovered in 1937.
Guinea Worm: Named by European explorers for the Guinea coast of West Africa in the 1600s.
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: Named after the mountain range spreading across western North America first recognized first in 1896 in Idaho.
Lyme Disease: Named after a large outbreak of the disease occurred in Lyme and Old Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s.
Ross River Fever: Named after a mosquito found to cause the disease in the Ross River of Queensland, Australia by the 1960s. The first major outbreak occurred in 1928.
Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever: Named after its 1940s discovery in Omsk, Russia.
Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever: Named in 1976 for the Ebola River in Zaire located in central Africa.
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS): Also known as “camel flu,” MERS was first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and all cases are linked to those who traveled to the Middle Eastern peninsula.
Japanese Encephalitis: Named after its first case in Japan in 1871.
German Measles: Named after the German doctors who first described it in the 18th century. The disease is also sometimes referred to as “Rubella.”
Lassa Fever: Named after the being found in Lassa, Nigeria in 1969.
Legionnaire’s Disease: Named in 1976 following an outbreak of people contracting the lung infection after attending an American Legion convention in Philadelphia.</blockquote>
Many in the mainstream media also called the virus the &#8220;Chinese virus&#8221; or the &#8220;Wuhan virus&#8221; during the first few months of the outbreak.
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Liberal media pundits want you to think referring to the coronavirus as the &quot;Wuhan&quot; or &quot;Chinese&quot; virus is racist.
Here&#39;s just a few of the times the liberal media did just that. <a href="https://t.co/ss3kV5smSP">pic.twitter.com/ss3kV5smSP</a>
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President Donald Trump referred to the coronavirus as the &#8220;Chinese Virus&#8221; in March after the CCP falsely claimed that the virus was brought to Wuhan by the U.S. military.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not racist at all,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;It comes from China.&#8221;
&#8220;It comes from China, I want to be accurate,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;As you know, China tried to say at one point, maybe they stopped now, that it was caused by American soldiers. That can&#8217;t happen, it&#8217;s not going to happen, not as long as I&#8217;m president. It comes from China.&#8221;
Trump even specifically stated that he was not talking about Asian-Americans with his remarks, tweeting: &#8220;It is very important that we totally protect our Asian American community in the United States, and all around the world. They are amazing people, and the spreading of the Virus is NOT their fault in any way, shape, or form. They are working closely with us to get rid of it. WE WILL PREVAIL TOGETHER!&#8221;
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&#8230;.is NOT their fault in any way, shape, or form. They are working closely with us to get rid of it. WE WILL PREVAIL TOGETHER!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1242202291718979587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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During an interview with <a href="https://kcbsradio.radio.com/articles/the-state-of-california-sen-harris-new-coronavirus-bill">KCBS Radio</a> on Monday, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) was asked about recent media reports that say the first-term California senator has been floated as a top contender to be the running mate for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. 
“Everyone seems to have you at the top of the Joe Biden veepstakes list. Do you want to be his running mate,” the news agency asked the California senator. “Would you rather be offered attorney general in a Biden administration?”
“Well, I’ve already been attorney general,” responded Harris, who proceeded to laugh before commenting on her two terms as California attorney general. “I was very honored to serve and I ran the second largest Department of Justice in the United States.”
“But I would be honored, obviously, if I were asked to serve as vice president. No questions about that. I’d be honored to serve with Joe Biden,” said the first-term California senator. 
“The bottom line is this: We cannot go on with another four years of Donald Trump,” said Harris. “So on the point of Joe Biden, I’m going to do everything I possibly can to help him win.”
Late Sunday evening, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/10/kamala-harris-early-biden-vice-president-favorite-248615">Politico</a> reported that more than two dozen Democrats with ties to the Biden campaign believe Harris to be the early frontrunner in the former vice president’s search for a running mate. 
While Harris notably attacked Biden last summer over his bussing policies, Congressman Jim Clyburn (D-SC), who has been credited for resurrecting Biden’s campaign through the South Carolina primary, believes that the former vice president will look past it. 
“I believe strongly that people make mistakes when they allow the heat of a political campaign and things said during a contest to define you,” Clyburn told Politico. “I’ve never seen Joe have any animus toward Kamala for what may have been said during the campaign.”
The news agency reports that other people being considered for the position include Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Rep. Val Demings (D-FL), Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI), and former Georgia House minority speaker Stacey Abrams. 
While Abrams only <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/politics/stacey-abrams-endorses-joe-biden/index.html">endorsed</a> Biden for president on Tuesday, for about the last month, the failed gubernatorial candidate has been telling reporters and media figures during interviews that she would be an “excellent” choice for Biden’s running mate. 
“I would be an excellent running mate,” Abrams told <a href="https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a32132819/stacey-abrams-on-voting-rights-covid-19-and-being-vice-president/">Elle Magazine</a> in response to a question about whether she would accept a spot on the ticket. “I would be an excellent running mate. I have the capacity to attract voters by motivating typically ignored communities. I have a strong history of executive and management experience in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.”
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Kamala Harris Responds To Heavy VP Speculation, Comments On Potential AG Position

Democratic donors and operatives are eyeing Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren as top potential picks to be Joe Biden’s vice president.
Harris (D-CA) is the favorite among major party donors and Biden campaign officials, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/10/kamala-harris-early-biden-vice-president-favorite-248615">Politico</a>. Warren (D-MA) is running second in the veepstakes with support from the party’s progressive wing.
Biden supporters’ feelings toward Harris have apparently grown warmer since the senator delivered one of the most aggressive attacks on Biden from any presidential candidate throughout the campaign.
Since the Democratic primary effectively ended, Biden and Harris have had several phone calls. Harris has refrained from directly lobbying the former vice president to be the other half of his ticket, however for most presidential campaigns, overt lobbying by potential VP picks is considered impolite if not rude.
“Clearly, she is out there and being supportive of Joe, but she is coming at it from a position of strength,” one Democratic donor told Politico. “She has continued to prove herself as a team player for Joe, a team player for Senate Democrats and that’s going to benefit her regardless of whether she’s picked for VP.”
In the second Democratic debate in June, Harris <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-kamala-harris-hammers-joe-biden-over-his-frank-camp">hit</a> Biden over his previous opposition to forced bussing to combat segregation in the school system. She also ripped into his work with segregationist senators, though he was against segregation himself.
“I do not believe you are a racist, and I agree with you when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground,” Harris said. “But I also believe – and it’s personal – it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country. And it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose bussing.”
Allies of Biden have largely chalked up the June debate to the rough and tumble of politics. They have dismissed concerns that the former vice president might hold a grudge against Harris, and Biden allies are taking note of her vocal support for Biden since ending her campaign.
“The vice president and his team knew full well the primary was going to be tough going in and that every candidate was in it to win,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), one of Biden’s early endorsers, told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/us/politics/kamala-harris-biden-vp.html">The New York Times</a>. “And the openheartedness and the genuineness with which Senator Harris has endorsed the vice president, embraced him and supported him, is all that matters now.”
While Warren is favored by the Democratic Party’s progressive base, Democratic donors have voiced staunch opposition to Biden picking her as his second.
“I think a lot of the donor base, on board and coming, would prefer almost anyone but Elizabeth. I don’t see him choosing her for veep” a longtime Biden fundraiser told <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/donors-pressure-joe-biden-to-not-pick-elizabeth-warren-as-vp.html">CNBC</a>.
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Report: Harris, Warren Are Top Contenders In Biden’s Hunt For VP

Sen. Ted Cruz ripped Congressional Democrats for holding up a bill that would replenish a small business emergency relief program that ran dry last week.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) tweeted on Saturday that Democrats are slow-walking a bill that would inject more money into the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to secure funding for minority owned businesses.
&#8220;We cannot let minority-owned small businesses fall through the cracks of the Paycheck Protection Program. I joined my colleagues this week calling for data transparency on small business loans to make sure that people of color aren’t being shut out from help during a pandemic,&#8221; said Harris, a former 2020 presidential candidate.
Cruz (R-TX) slammed Harris and her Democratic colleagues for seeking special earmarks for certain classes of small businesses when most business owners are struggling under coronavirus-induced lockdowns.
&#8220;Kamala, EVERYBODY’s falling through the cracks because your party is blocking ALL new funds for the Paycheck Protection Program. Every day, more &amp; more small businesses go bankrupt — and each week millions more employees get laid off — and Dems keep playing partisan games. Stop!&#8221; Cruz tweeted.
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Kamala, EVERYBODY’s falling through the cracks because your party is blocking ALL new funds for the Paycheck Protection Program. Every day, more &amp; more small businesses go bankrupt—and each week millions more employees get laid off—and Dems keep playing partisan games. Stop! <a href="https://t.co/imCEfTWOc6">https://t.co/imCEfTWOc6</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1251612012058161153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The PPP ran out of its initial investment of $350 million on Thursday, leaving small businesses that had not yet applied or received approval for an emergency loan to stay afloat through the pandemic in a tenuous spot. The program was approved by Congress to encourage small businesses to retain and pay as many employees as possible as numerous states enforce strict stay-at-home orders over the pandemic.
Senators are haggling over the specifics of a $500 billion aid package that includes about $300 billion for the PPP. At Democrats’ request, the current draft of the bill allocates $60 billion more for businesses owned by minorities, women, veterans, and other specific groups. The sticking point is over Democrats’ demands for $150 billion for state and local governments, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/20/negotiators-fighting-behind-the-scenes-on-relief-package-196000?nname=playbook-pm&amp;nid=0000015a-dd3e-d536-a37b-dd7fd8af0000&amp;nrid=0000015e-f320-d26d-a7fe-fbf341270000&amp;nlid=964328">Politico</a>.
The restaurant chain Shake Shack <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shake-shack-returns-10-million-loan-after-small-business-relief-program-runs-dry">gave back</a> a $10 million loan it was approved to receive from the PPP after <a href="https://investor.shakeshack.com/investors-overview/news/press-release-details/2020/Shake-Shack-Announces-Aggregate-150-Million-Equity-Offering/default.aspx">making</a> roughly $150 million on Friday by selling equity. Shake Shack’s CEO Randy Garutti and founder Danny Meyer announced on Monday that the funding would be returned for other businesses to tap into.
&#8220;Shake Shack was fortunate last Friday to be able to access the additional capital we needed to ensure our long term stability through an equity transaction in the public markets,&#8221; the executives said. &#8220;We’re thankful for that and we’ve decided to immediately return the entire $10 million PPP loan we received last week to the [Small Business Association] so that those restaurants who need it most can get it now.&#8221;
In the past four weeks, nearly 22 million Americans have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/economy-is-falling-off-a-cliff-another-5-2-million-americans-filed-jobless-claims-last-week-totaling-22-million-in-last-month">filed</a> for unemployment after being fired or furloughed during the pandemic, according to Thursday’s unemployment claims. The real number of workers who have lost jobs or income is likely much higher as record unemployment claims flooded government offices causing severe delays.
State stay-at-home orders are crippling businesses that are no longer allowed to serve customers or are operating under heavy restrictions. In the past month, historic reported job losses have roughly equaled the number of jobs gained since the end of the Great Recession.

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‘EVERYBODY’s falling through the cracks’: Ted Cruz Slams Kamala, Dems For Holding Up Emergency Business Aid

Though Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) were willing to crucify then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh based on a 36-year-old sexual assault allegation that had zero pieces of corroborating evidence and not a single corroborating witness, the female senators, both of whom currently sit on Joe Biden&#8217;s shortlist of potential running-mates, have been mum on the recent sexual assault allegation against the former vice president, which appears to have far more corroborating evidence supporting it than the one leveled against Kavanaugh.
As of this writing, neither Harris, Klobuchar, 2018 Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, nor any of Biden&#8217;s potential VP picks have said anything untoward about him or his sexual assault allegation in recent weeks. Though some have commented on the allegation, the statements were more general and devoid of any sharp substance.
From <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-on-vp-short-list-silent-on-biden-sexual-assault-allegation">Fox News</a>:
<blockquote>Fox News on Tuesday reached out to the offices of 16 of the women who have been speculated about as possible Democratic vice presidential nominees, including Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., as well as Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and several others. None responded as of Wednesday morning.
Only three of the potential picks have commented publicly on the allegations, all this week. And they generally avoided commenting on the allegations directly.</blockquote>
Speaking with <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/04/14/834460134/sen-klobuchar-on-her-bill-to-ensure-mail-in-voting-rights-and-on-joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NPR</a>, Sen. Klobuchar pointed to the recent &#8220;investigation&#8221; by The New York Times – a newspaper that has routinely vilified Brett Kavanaugh – as her get-out-of-jail-free card while touting Biden&#8217;s many accomplishments with women.
&#8220;[I]n this case – and your listeners should look at the story – there was a thorough review by The New York Times. And I think that&#8217;s very important to have, especially involving public figures,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But I think when I look at – when I see Vice President Biden, someone I worked with, I see him on – a leader on domestic abuse – led the bill before people were even willing to talk about those horrific crimes, and has really been a champion of abuses of power against women, and has used his voice on the domestic abuse front in such a big way.&#8221;
It should be noted that both The New York Times and The Washington Post <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wapo-slams-biden-accuser-metoos-rose-mcgowan-blasts-this-is-a-hit-piece">have faced tremendous backlash</a> for how the publications covered the Joe Biden allegation. #MeToo heroine Rose McGowan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wapo-slams-biden-accuser-metoos-rose-mcgowan-blasts-this-is-a-hit-piece">downright trashed</a> the latter for engaging in what she called &#8220;victim shaming&#8221; by essentially smearing Biden&#8217;s accuser, Tara Reade, in ways the paper never considered during the Brett Kavanaugh circus.
Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, another potential VP pick, essentially echoed Klobuchar&#8217;s statements when speaking with <a href="https://www.npr.org/transcripts/834214831" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NPR</a> on Tuesday.
&#8220;Well, I think women should be able to tell their stories,&#8221; Whitmer said. &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to give you greater insight than that, not knowing more about the situation.&#8221;
Tara Reade served as a staff assistant to then-Senator Joe Biden in 1993 when she claims that he sexually assaulted her. Joe Biden and his campaign have thoroughly denied the allegation.
&#8220;Women have a right to tell their story, and reporters have an obligation to rigorously vet those claims. We encourage them to do so, because these accusations are false,&#8221; Biden Deputy Campaign Manager Kate Bedingfield said in a statement.

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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), who once derided former Vice President Joe Biden as a supporter of racist policies, officially endorsed the Delaware Senator-turned-former Veep in a video posted to social media Sunday morning.
Biden “has served our country with dignity and we need him now more than ever,&#8221; Kamala says in the short clip. &#8220;“I have decided I am with great enthusiasm going to endorse Joe Biden for president of the United States. I believe in Joe.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeBiden</a> has served our country with dignity and we need him now more than ever. I will do everything in my power to help elect him the next President of the United States. <a href="https://t.co/DbB2fGWpaa">pic.twitter.com/DbB2fGWpaa</a>
&mdash; Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1236622740930560001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;There is no one better prepared than Joe to steer our nation through these turbulent times, and restore truth, honor, and decency to the Oval Office. He is kind and endlessly caring, and he truly listens to the American people,” the progressive California Senator said in an accompanying statement sent to media.
“You can see in his eyes how he takes to heart the experiences of mothers and fathers working to make ends meet and worrying about whether their children can be safe in their classroom, or young people who fight tirelessly to tackle climate change as they ask for a fair shot at the future in front of them. And with a lifetime in public service, Joe has a proven track record of getting things done,” she gushed.
&#8220;This is something we must reckon with and it is something I will have more to say about in the future,” Harris eventually concluded, encouraging party unity. “But we must rise to unite the party and country behind a candidate who reflects the decency and dignity of the American people and who can ultimately defeat Donald Trump.”
Harris&#8217;s endorsement comes months after she ended her own presidential campaign, and only after the Democratic Party appears to have coalesced behind Biden in a last-ditch effort to derail the possible nomination of Vermont socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
Just months ago, too, Harris made her mark in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination by attacking Biden explicitly, dressing down the former Vice President in a mid-summer debate, accusing Biden of all manner of sins, and going after &#8220;Biden’s long record on racial issues and opposition to federal funding for interracial busing in the U.S. Senate,&#8221; <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article231918783.html">according to the Miami Herald</a>.
“I do not believe you are a racist, and I agree with you when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground,” Harris railed at Biden, who was clearly taken by surprise. “But I also believe, and it’s personal, and it was actually very hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country. And it was not only that but you also worked with them to oppose busing.”
&#8220;There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to schools every day, and that little girl was me. Vice President Biden, do agree today, do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose busing in America then? Do you agree?” Harris asked.
Biden, taken aback, tried to explain that he wasn&#8217;t against integration, but against a Federal government order that would have superceded state rules and regulations, forcing local school districts to adopt anti-segregation busing policies through the Department of Education. Days after the confrontation, clearly still suffering from the fallout, Biden apologized for working with high-profile legislators who remained ardent segregationists well after the passage of the Civil Rights act.
Harris&#8217; gambit, though, is clear: now that Biden is the front-runner, he is obligated to begin the process of selecting a running mate, and Harris is among those experts have named as possible vice presidential candidates.

Kamala Harris Endorses Joe Biden For President In Twitter Video

Keeping up appearance is apparently not in the Democratic Party&#8217;s skillset.
Despite the &#8220;somber&#8221; and &#8220;sullen&#8221; atmosphere surrounding President Donald Trump&#8217;s impeachment, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) can be seen clowning around in front of reporters prior to a press conference, an act of impropriety that even Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) could not afford to tolerate. Take a look at this uncut gem of a video:
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Chuck Schumer scolds Kamala Harris for messing around at impeachment press conference<a href="https://t.co/i2eUI8vEbM">https://t.co/i2eUI8vEbM</a> <a href="https://t.co/khIlDx67Kr">pic.twitter.com/khIlDx67Kr</a>
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People on social media roundly mocked the moment, noting that it highlights how the Democrats have been conning Americans with all their talk about President Trump&#8217;s impeachment allegedly being a serious, non-partisan affair that is all about upholding the Founding Fathers&#8217; vision of constitutional self-governance.
&#8220;Schumer just scolded her like a petulant child,&#8221; said one Twitter user. Where’s the girl power squad coming to her defense. Will she let this MAN embarrass her and get away [with] it.&#8221;
&#8220;Maybe she smoked a blunt and thought something was funny. [You] know how cool she is&#8230;&#8221; said another user.
&#8220;All she did was chuckle through her goofy campaign. She&#8217;s not a serious person and shouldn&#8217;t be taken seriously,&#8221; said another.
This is not the first time Harris has acted like a goofball on camera shortly before donning her impeachment game face to talk about the sadness and shame everyone surely feels for being forced to bear the undue burden of impeaching an American president. In fact, this <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-kamala-harris-smiles-before-talking-about-solemn-serious-impeachment">happened just two weeks ago</a>.
Speaking with MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt after being sworn in as a juror in the Senate trial, Harris appeared to give a gleeful smile and grin to someone off-camera before quickly putting on a serious mask in order to talk about the impeachment as if it were a sad day for America and a burden that she and the Democrats have been forced to unfairly bear for the good of the nation.
“Can you start just by taking us through the moments that you just experienced on the floor of the Senate, and what the task is at hand?” Hunt asked Harris.
“This is a solemn, serious moment,” Harris said. “These are the most serious charges brought in the history of our country against a president. The moment we just experienced, I think, is highlighting the importance of doing impartial justice and taking seriously the importance of listening to the evidence and the importance of receiving evidence, both in terms of witnesses and in terms of documents. Because the American people and the Constitution of the United States require that we demand all evidence so that we can follow the facts and the evidence where they lead.”
“Do you think the Senate is capable of conducting a fair trial?” asked Hunt.
“If the United States Senate cannot conduct a fair trial, then we can talk about the beginning of the end to our democracy and our system of justice,” Harris responded.
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“If the Senate does not conduct a fair trial, then we can begin to talk about the end of our democracy.” <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KamalaHarris</a> discusses the Senate impeachment trial with <a href="https://twitter.com/kasie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Kasie</a>, calls for witnesses to be included <a href="https://t.co/t04I1LyISe">pic.twitter.com/t04I1LyISe</a>
&mdash; Kasie DC (@KasieDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/KasieDC/status/1217866142833881089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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According to a recent report from The New York Times, Harris has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-kamala-harris-considers-major-move-backing-biden-follows-bidens-vp-comments">considering an endorsement</a> of former Vice President Joe Biden, which would boost her odds of becoming his eventual running mate.

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

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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

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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. 
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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.

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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]

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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>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1202006070438199298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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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.

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