Scamala： Kamala Harris Unmasked ｜ Episode 2 - That's Senator to You
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When most Americans first became aware of Kamala Harris, she was already a senator, and she d already been touted by the legacy media as a potential presidential candidate. She had been treated as the next big thing, a female Barack Obama. But something funny happened on the way to the presidency: the public got to know her, and the more they saw her, the less they liked her.
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Hey folks, Ben Shapiro here. Welcome to Scamala, Kamala Harris Unmasked.
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Let's continue this fight together. The truth matters, and with your help,
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we'll make sure it's heard. Now, let's dive into Scamala Kamala Harris unmasked and see what the
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left doesn't want you to know. When most Americans first became aware of Kamala Harris,
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she was already a senator, and she'd already been touted by the legacy media as a potential
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presidential candidate. There's a great district attorney in San Francisco whose name is Kamala
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Harris. She's brilliant. She's smart. She doesn't look anything like anybody you ever see on Law and
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order, yet she's tough, and she's got a big future. They call her the female Barack Obama.
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There was a reason for that. From the day Barack Obama called her the hottest woman in American
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politics. I happen to mention that Kamala Harris is the best-looking attorney general in the country.
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She had been treated as the next big thing, a female Barack Obama. But something funny happened
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on the way to the presidency. The public got to know Kamala Harris, and the more they saw her,
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the less they liked her. Her grasping, manipulative inauthenticity grew stronger with every
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public display. The more Kamala Harris wanted it, the less the American public wanted her.
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Kamala Harris was sworn into the United States Senate as a senator from California in January 2017.
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She was determined to make her mark, not in terms of legislation or policy, but in terms of celebrity.
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The day after her inauguration, she spoke at the Women's March, where she praised the
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pussy-hatted brigade for their bravery. What a beautiful sight I see. What do my eyes behold?
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This is an extraordinary day, and we all should be extremely, extremely proud.
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The circus had begun. Kamala's chief role in the Senate was to play prosecutor. But where she had
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once appeared even spoken and even somewhat genuine, she now had developed verbal and linguistic
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tics that made her annoying and cloying. She nodded her head in vehement agreement with herself.
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Her hand motions were too large, too practiced. Her voice ranged into nasal indignation at every
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turn. And every questioning was a righteously furious assault.
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So are you aware that there are local law enforcement—
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Do you like me at least finish once before you interrupt me?
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Desperate for attention, Kamala tried to play up her supposed authenticity,
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Well, the first thing we've got to do is to speak the truth. And the truth is that these
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folks are playing politics with public health. So they're engaged in all of this happy talk
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Let's just go into 2018 and be joyful warriors.
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Kamala was active in the ouster of Senator Al Franken. After the Minnesota senator was caught with his hands
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in the cookie jar, or rather, near the breast of talk show host years before in a picture captured
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while that host was asleep, Kamala quickly came out for Al Franken's resignation. That,
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conveniently enough, opened up a slot for her on the Judiciary Committee. And it was from there
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that Kamala truly began to unleash her unpleasant persona. In 2017, interviewing Attorney General
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Jeff Sessions, she would not allow him to answer questions and talked over him.
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The policy is based on the principle that the president...
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Sir, I'm not asking about the principle. I'm asking when you...
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...that you would be asked these questions and you would rely on that policy.
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Did you not ask your staff to show you the policy that would be the basis for you refusing
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to answer the majority of questions that have been asked of you?
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The witness shouldn't be allowed to answer the question.
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In the aftermath, she would complain of being interrupted. The media would predictably pick up that narrative.
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But Kamala's Senate starring role was yet to come. That starring role came in 2018,
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when Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy resigned at the age of 81.
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President Donald Trump, guided by the scholars at the Federalist Society,
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picked D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill the slot.
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Kamala saw this as her time to shine. She would single-handedly destroy Kavanaugh and save the
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Constitution. She immediately released a statement, minutes after his nomination,
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calling him a, quote, direct and fundamental threat to the promise of equality.
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At the very first hearing, she launched into a long speech introducing herself to the American
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I was starting kindergarten. And I was a bus, in a bus, a school bus, on my way to Thousand Oaks
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Elementary School as part of the second class of students as bussing desegregated Berkeley,
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All of this was merely the beginning of Kamala's dishonest pyrotechnics.
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At the time of the Kavanaugh hearings, the Robert Mueller special investigation into supposed Russian
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collusion with the 2016 Trump campaign was the top story in the news. So Kamala decided to ask
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Kavanaugh about whether he himself had been involved in some way in the case. To do so,
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she threw out a weird theory that Kavanaugh had talked with someone at the firm of Kasowitz,
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Benson & Torres, the law firm for President Trump, about Robert Mueller. Kavanaugh clearly had no idea what
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Kamala was getting at. But she persisted. Have you had any conversation about Robert Mueller
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I'm asking you a very direct question. Yes or no?
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I need to know the... I'm not sure I know everyone who works at that law firm.
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I don't think you need to. I think you need to know who you talked with.
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The next day, all of the focus was on Kamala. Who was she suggesting Kavanaugh had talked to?
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What sort of corrupt arrangement was she uncovering? The answer? She had nothing. The entire accusation
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was total nonsense. She literally tried to manufacture a gotcha out of whole cloth in an
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attempt to catch Kavanaugh in what is called a perjury lie, where somebody lies by accident and
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then is prosecuted. It didn't work. But all of that was prelude to the big show. On September 16th,
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2018, the Washington Post came forward with an extraordinary accusation against Kavanaugh,
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an accusation from California professor Christine Blasey Ford. Ford alleged that as a teenager some
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four decades before, she had attended a party where Kavanaugh and his high school friends were drunk
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and attempted to hurt her. She could not name the location, the date, or the time of the party.
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She could not name any of the other people present at the party. It turns out that Ford had attempted
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to make the allegation anonymously originally. She had called Representative Anna Eshoo of California,
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who had referred that story to Senator Dianne Feinstein. Feinstein had asked for a letter
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with the details. Presumably, Feinstein didn't find the story all that compelling because it went
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nowhere. Later, Eshoo went to Kamala Harris. And then all of a sudden, the information began leaking
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to the press. Before Ford's testimony, Kamala did an interview with CBS News in which she touted
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Ford's heroism and said she believed Ford even though she'd never actually talked to her.
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Blasey Ford eventually testified before the Senate. Her testimony was vague and questionable.
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I was pushed onto the bed and Brett got on top of me. He began running his hands over my body
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and grinding into me. I believed he was going to me. I tried to yell for help. Brett's assault on me
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drastically altered my life. For a very long time, I was too afraid and ashamed to tell anyone
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these details. But Kamala stepped in again to call her a hero.
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You are sitting here before members of the United States Senate's Judiciary Committee
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because you had the courage to come forward. I want to thank you for your courage and I want
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to tell you I believe you. I believe you. And I believe many Americans across this country believe
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None of this stopped Kamala, who questioned Kavanaugh savagely.
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Judge Kavanaugh, have you taken a professionally administered polygraph test as it relates to this
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issue? So I'm going to ask you one last time. Are you willing to ask the White House to authorize
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the FBI to investigate the claims that have been made against you? Do you agree that it is possible
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for men to both be friends with some women and treat other women badly?
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These were scurrilous attacks designed to destroy Brett Kavanaugh as a judicial nominee and as a man.
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Kavanaugh would defend himself in passionate terms.
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This whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit,
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fueled with apparent pent-up anger about President Trump and the 2016 election,
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fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record, revenge on behalf of the Clintons,
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and millions of dollars in money from outside left-wing opposition groups.
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And indeed, Kavanaugh would be confirmed by the Senate on October 6th, 2018.
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Kamala's campaign for the presidency started like a house of fire.
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The media, focusing on her intersectional credentials, a black woman, a second Obama,
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saw her as an early frontrunner in what would undoubtedly be a crowded field.
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Early polling put her at the top of the Democratic keep, second only to Bernie Sanders,
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whom it was broadly believed would decline as the field consolidated.
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Kamala Harris launched her presidential campaign on Martin Luther King Jr. Day,
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with a rally in her hometown of Oakland, California.
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The event drew an estimated 20,000 people, and she attempted to position herself as both the underdog
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and the popular choice of the black community, like Barack Obama before her.
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Ditching her tough-on-crime, top-cop talk, she spoke of herself as a progressive prosecutor,
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ready to bring justice and equality to the forefront of American politics.
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I'm running to fight for an America where no mother or father has to teach their young son
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that people may stop him, arrest him, chase him, or kill him because of his race.
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She was positioning herself on the left of the Democratic Party
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in an attempt to shoulder out potential competitors like Beto O'Rourke of Texas
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and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, both of whom were widely perceived as direct competitors.
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America's story has always been written by people who can see what can be unburdened by what has been.
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She branded her campaign Kamala for the people.
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She'd always been the candidate of the elite Democratic Party.
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Her logo was a disaster area, confusion of too many words and bizarre color scheme.
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And her for the people slogan, a riff on the prosecutor's introduction in court,
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Kamala Harris for the people, Your Honor, fell absolutely flat.
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Nonetheless, she raised huge cash out of the gate.
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During the first 24 hours of her campaign, she cleared $1.5 million in donations,
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Within weeks, though, she would begin to flounder.
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In February 2019, an actor named Jussie Smollett alleged that he had been beaten
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in the middle of the night on the streets of Chicago by two white men wearing red hats.
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As they looped a rope around his neck and threw bleach on him.
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Seeking to be the first out of the gate to capitalize on this sensational story,
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Harris tweeted that this was a modern-day lynching,
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and suggested that the alleged incident serve as the basis for pushing a law she supported.
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As should have been obvious from the outset, however, the story was a lie.
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She also jumped into controversy surrounding Joe Biden,
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her chief rival from the Democratic political center.
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When seven women came forward claiming that Biden had engaged in an unwanted touching,
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I believe them, and I respect them being able to tell their story and have a person to do it.
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During the first quarter of the year, she raised $12 million,
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Still, Kamala's campaign struggled with internal organization from the beginning.
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Reports of infighting, lack of clear strategy, and inconsistent messaging began to surface,
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hinting at deeper issues that would plague her run.
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Those stories, of course, would only break out into the open as her campaign began to melt down.
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That meltdown, surprisingly, began with what should have been Kamala's breakout moment.
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During the first debate of the primary season, June 27th, 2019,
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Kamala, through luck of the draw, there were two groups of Democratic candidates,
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faced off against Bernie Sanders and, in particular, Joe Biden,
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the former Obama vice president and new presidential frontrunner.
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This was her opportunity to knock Biden out of the race and to steal his voting base.
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First, she set herself up as the adult in the room by intervening in a spat between other candidates.
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They want to know how we're going to put food on their table.
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It was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators
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who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country.
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And it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose busing.
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And, you know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class
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This confrontation brought her significant attention and a temporary boost in the polls.
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Harris's attack on Joe Biden steals spotlight at Democratic primary debate.
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Her campaign website began selling merch reading,
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Pollsters suggested that her support had doubled from 8% before the debate nationally
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Kamala's inability to sustain the momentum revealed a critical weakness.
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As with Justice Kavanaugh, Kamala could launch an attack,
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with Joe Biden's comments on national television
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suggesting that her remarks were baseless and scurrilous.
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I thought we were friends, and I hope we still will be.
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You know, she asked me to go out and call me and asked me to go to her convention
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and be the guy from outside of California to nominate her at her convention for the Senate seat.
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On MSNBC's Morning Joe, Kamala softened and walked back her attack on Biden.
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So he shouldn't have worked with them, is what you're saying?
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I'm saying, no, I'm saying that the characterization and the nostalgia
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And it was hurtful to me to hear that we would be nostalgic about people who,
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if they had their way, I would not serve in the United States Senate.
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Her position in Biden's on busing were substantially the same.
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Kamala's policy positions were another area of concern.
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Her stance on health care was emblematic of her campaign's broader issues.
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Initially, Kamala supported Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All plan,
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I believe the solution, and I actually feel very strongly about this,
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But as criticism mounted, particularly from centrist voters and health care professionals,
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The role of private insurance, are you limiting that to something like cosmetic insurance?
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Or what is the exact role of private insurance?
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Very little, because almost everything will be covered.
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Kamala tried to strike a middle ground, proposing a plan that would maintain private insurance options
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This flip-flop alienated both progressives and moderates,
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Her inconsistency extended to other issues as well.
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On criminal justice reform, Kamala struggled to reconcile her record
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as a tough-on-crime prosecutor with her new progressive platform.
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During a televised town hall, Kamala was asked about her stance on the death penalty
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Her response was a convoluted attempt to balance her past actions
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with her current campaign platform, resulting in a muddled message that pleased no one.
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My career has been based on an understanding, one, that as a prosecutor,
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my duty was to seek and make sure that the most vulnerable and voiceless among us are protected.
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And that is why I have personally prosecuted violent crime that includes rape,
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And I have also worked my entire career to reform the criminal justice system,
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understanding, to your point, that it is deeply flawed and in need of repair.
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Critics on the left and the right pointed to her past actions,
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such as her defense of the death penalty and her handling of truancy laws,
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which disproportionately affected low-income and minority communities.
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These contradictions eroded her credibility and trustworthiness.
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People were beginning to see through Kamala Harris' act.
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The real problem, however, was not Kamala's politics.
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Kamala's sudden fame exposed her, sanded off all the varnish.
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It became clearer day after day that she was simply unlikable.
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Kamala quickly became the race's most inauthentic politician.
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Her most obvious foible was an unfortunate behavioral tick.
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When asked a tough question, she would break into nearly uncontrollable laughter.
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Kamala's tendency to laugh at inappropriate times
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often came across as dismissive, out of touch, just plain weird.
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It became a symbol of her inability to connect with voters on a deeper level.
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Well, I think we've got a couple of issues, Chris, with that.
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I was the only one in the room who thought we were still in the game.
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All of these issues broke out into the open at the next Democratic primary debate on July 31st, 2019.
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Joe Biden opened the debate by approaching Kamala for a handshake,
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Jake Tapper of CNN brought up the attack from the last debate,
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Vice President Biden was in the United States Senate working with segregationists
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to oppose busing, which was the vehicle by which we would integrate America's public schools.
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Had I been in the United States Senate at that time,
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I would have been completely on the other side of the aisle.
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I would not be a member of the United States Senate.
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Cory Booker would not be a member of the United States Senate.
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And Barack Obama would not have been in a position to nominate him to the title he now holds.
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But that wasn't the moment that killed the Harris campaign.
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That moment came at the hands of former Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard,
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running at Kamala from both the left and the center.
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Gabbard delivered a scathing critique that many viewed as a death blow to Harris's candidacy.
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pointing out that despite presenting herself as a progressive reformer,
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She highlighted that Kamala had blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row,
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a charge that struck at the heart of Kamala's claims to fairness and justice.
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I want to bring the conversation back to the broken criminal justice system
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that is disproportionately negatively impacting black and brown people all across this country today.
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Now, Senator Harris says she's proud of her record as a prosecutor
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and that she'll be a prosecutor president, but I'm deeply concerned about this record.
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but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations
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and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.
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She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row
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She kept people in prison beyond their sentences
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to use them as cheap labor for the state of California.
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And she fought to keep cash bail system in place
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that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.
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Senator Harris, when you were in a position to make a difference
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and an impact in these people's lives, you did not.
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And worse yet, in the case of those who were on death row, innocent people,
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you actually blocked evidence from being revealed that would have freed them
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And the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor,
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This was, of course, the first time she'd ever publicly faced serious pushback.
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And she collapsed in the face of Gabbard's withering assault.
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The media and public reaction to the exchange was swift and harsh.
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Many declared Gabbard the clear winner of that debate segment
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Kamala attempted to deflect by attacking Gabbard's own record
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They failed to address the substantive criticisms that had been laid out.
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I think that it's unfortunate that we have someone on the stage
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who is attempting to be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States,
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who during the Obama administration spent four years full-time on Fox News
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Who has spent full-time criticizing people on this stage
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The confrontation significantly damaged Kamala's campaign.
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And the criticism from Gabbard stuck with voters,
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casting serious doubt on Kamala's authenticity and trustworthiness.
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Gabbard's attack was not just a momentary setback,
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but a turning point from which Kamala's campaign never recovered.
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It highlighted the vulnerabilities and contradictions in Kamala's record.
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And her inability to effectively counter those criticisms in real time
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underscored the lack of preparedness and strategic depth within her campaign.
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Meanwhile, Kamala's gaps became more and more unwatchable.
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This is a conversation I have heard in every campaign I have,
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And y'all are looking at me, okay, Kamala, why do you say this?
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Why do you think we have so much more in common than what separates us?
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I know it based on every personal and professional experience I've had,
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and I know it based on what I call the three-in-the-morning thought.
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Okay, y'all looking at me, where are you going with this?
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Peel one layer, find another layer of inauthenticity beneath.
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Her most virally inauthentic moment came when her campaign got a bus.
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Senator Harris is kicking off a five-day bus tour.
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In response, Kamala attended big-dollar fundraisers,
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That was, of course, where she was most comfortable
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As the campaign progressed, Kamala's support steadily continued to decline.
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By the fall of 2019, her poll numbers had cratered.
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Despite her attempts to shift her campaign's focus to Iowa,
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Internal campaign memos revealed a chaotic organization,
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with staff turnover and a lack of cohesive strategy
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Politico reported in October 2019 that Harris was, quote,
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hemorrhaging cash and in danger of lacking the resources
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to mount a competitive bid against better-funded rivals in Iowa.
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Kamala attempted to reshuffle the cards in order to
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as a likely early-stage juggernaut just three months ago.
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On November 29th, the New York Times ran an expose on Kamala's campaign.
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who has fallen hard out of the top tier of candidates,
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who changes her message and tactics to little effect
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from Kelly Mellenbacher, the state operations director.
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In it, Mellenbacher excoriated the campaign, quote,
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and I have never seen an organization treat its staff so poorly.
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Mellenbacher saved particular ire for Maya Harris, Kamala's sister,
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The organizational unsteadiness of Ms. Harris' campaign
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reflects a longtime personal trait, according to allies.
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She is a candidate who seeks input from a stable of advisors,
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but her personal political convictions can be unclear.
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That was a very nice way of saying the obvious.
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Kamala made the decision to suspend her campaign.
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In her withdrawal statement, Kamala cited financial difficulties
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and the need to focus on uniting the Democratic Party.
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and the financial resources we need to continue.
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it has become harder and harder to raise the money we need
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In good faith, I cannot tell you, my supporters and volunteers,
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that I have a path forward if I don't believe I do.
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it is with deep regret, but also with deep gratitude,
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And I will keep fighting every day for what this campaign has been about.
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and her campaign had been a full-scale disaster area.
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In March 2020, when Tara Reid came forward and accused Biden of sexual assault,
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But in reality, Biden was in good electoral shape.
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Kamala Harris may have had one of the most spectacular collapses
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of any presidential candidate in modern history,
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And that advantage made itself apparent with the death of George Floyd.
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Kamala was an awkward candidate to play racial conflagrationist.
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She was a former prosecutor married to a white man
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without any serious record in left-wing race-baiting.
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But the Democratic Party under nominee Joe Biden, an old white man, was desperate.
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Floyd's death ignited widespread rioting and cries from the left to defund the police.
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That same month, Kamala Harris sought to reposition herself yet again,
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Kamala tweeted out a call to chip in to the Minnesota Freedom Fund
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post-fail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.
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And now Kamala, the former top cop, was supporting them.
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Meanwhile, as Joe Biden finished up his victorious primary campaign,
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the people who had elevated him to the nomination over Bernie Sanders.
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He had been one of the architects of the 1994 criminal justice scheme
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that ended with large-scale incarceration disproportionately among black men.
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Within weeks of Floyd's death, the so-called racial justice movement in his name
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began calling for Biden to pick a black woman for his running mate.
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when some 200 black female leaders and activists within the Democratic Party
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signed an open letter demanding a black female VP pick from Biden.
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And in June, Biden announced that he would be seeking just that, a black woman.
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On July 20th, Biden said he had four black women on his vice presidential shortlist.
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The other two were House members and a national security advisor.
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And only one of the possibilities had the support of the ex-president
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and sole reason for Joe Biden's political success at the age of 77, Barack Obama.
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Behind the scenes, Obama played a pivotal role in Kamala's selection.
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as it helped to alleviate concerns within the party about Kamala's controversial record
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and bolster her candidacy with his considerable political capital.
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Obama's support also helped to overcome opposition from Jill Biden,
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who, according to all reports, disliked Kamala strongly since her scurrilous attacks on Joe.
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Now, the woman Obama had once called the hottest attorney general in the nation
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was about to be placed one heartbeat from Obama's old job.
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On August 11th, 2020, Joe Biden announced that Kamala Harris would be his vice presidential running mate.
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I have the great honor to announce that I picked Kamala Harris,
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one of the country's finest public servants, as my running mate, Biden tweeted.
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For her part, Kamala was now ready to bend the knee,
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can unify the American people because he's spent his life fighting for us.
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And as president, he'll build an America that lives up to our ideals.
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I'm honored to join him as our party's nominee for vice president
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and do what it takes to make him our commander in chief.
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I have no doubt that I picked the right person to join me
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as the next vice president of the United States of America,
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The answer is absolutely yes, Joe, and I am ready to work.
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They didn't know how to interact with one another.
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He wanted to show her off as the intersectional future
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All of that was made apparent during a joint introductory interview
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on August 23rd, where the two seemed ill at ease.
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For us at every moment in time, and certainly this one,
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which is why we will work together and continue to work together
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to address these issues, to tackle these challenges,
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operating from the new norms, rules, and agreements
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there is great significance to the passage of time
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There's this whole conversation that's been coming up
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was intended to be a showcase of her abilities,
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on her political inadequacies and public relations missteps.
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juxtaposing Kamala with Vice President Mike Pence,
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was supposed to be a shining moment for Kamala.
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That was tax cuts that gave the average working family
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Is he only going to repeal part of the Trump tax cuts?
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And I want to add, but Mr. Vice President, I'm speaking.
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Despite Kamala's attempts to sell a new set of merch
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It was the beginning of a long night for Kamala,
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who once again fell short in command of the issues
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from the controversial elements of the proposal,
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I will repeat that Joe Biden has been very clear
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for anyone who makes less than $400,000 a year.
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Moody's, which is a reputable Wall Street firm,
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And part of those jobs that will be created by Joe Biden
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that Kamala lacked a firm stance on critical policies.
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Additionally, her failure to adequately address
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Pence's pushback on the administration's handling
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of COVID-19 and the economy lapsed into incoherence.
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in articulating a clear, compelling vision for the future.
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the Trump administration's accomplishments and plans,
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To the men and women who serve in law enforcement,
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who puts on the uniform of law enforcement every day.
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while serving as California's attorney general.
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who resigned after a $400,000 settlement was made
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Once again, her dishonesty was on full display.
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Kamala's team claimed they were unaware of the issues
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telling interviews that if he disagreed with Kamala,