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Joe Biden: I Picked Kamala Harris Because She's ˜Ready to Lead on Day One"

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Biden: I Picked Kamala Harris Because She's Ready to Lead on Day One

His statement, that Harris is “ready to lead on day one,” drew mockery from critics.

“LMAO. Joe Biden’s pitch to America is ‘vote for me, my VP will take over soon!'” one user said.

“At least you admit(unwittingly) that she’ll be in charge on day one,” another added.

“She’ll be the one leading,” another quipped. “Not you.”

Biden’s pitch for Harris follows a Rasmussen poll released this week, revealing that the majority of likely voters do not believe Biden will serve all four years if elected.

Respondents were asked, “If Biden is elected in November, how likely is it that his running mate will be president before the end of Biden’s four-year term – very likely, somewhat likely, not very likely or not at all likely?”

Fifty-nine percent of likely voters indicated that it was likely that Biden’s running mate will take over before his term’s end.

So it is sounding like Biden isn’t even planning to unpack!
 

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re: Joe Biden: I Picked Kamala Harris Because She's ˜Ready to Lead on Day One"

Sounds to me like Biden picked someone he thought was capable of running the country.
 

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re: Joe Biden: I Picked Kamala Harris Because She's ˜Ready to Lead on Day One"

It is interesting to see how the VP pick affects poll numbers. Biden leads Trump by 4 percentage points in a new national poll. The Biden campaign hopes that she will energize black voters in crucial swing states. Harris' parents are Jamaican and Indian immigrants and she is not an African American.

Less than 90 days before the November elections, President Trump is trailing former Vice President Joe Biden by 4 percentage points in a new Hill-HarrisX national poll.

Forty-four percent of registered voters in the August 8-11 survey said they'd vote for Biden if the election were held today.

By contrast, 40 percent of voters said they'd choose Trump at the ballot box.

Four percent of voters said they'd prefer someone else as their candidate for president, while another 4 percent of voters do not plan to vote.

Poll: Trump trails Biden by 4 points in new national survey | TheHill
 

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re: Joe Biden: I Picked Kamala Harris Because She's ˜Ready to Lead on Day One"

Biden needs to fire the dip**** who writes his speeches.

Really different from what we've seen for the last three and a half years, right? No lies, no childish insults.

This is really going to take some getting used to.
 

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re: Joe Biden: I Picked Kamala Harris Because She's ˜Ready to Lead on Day One"

She began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, before being recruited to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and later the City Attorney of San Francisco's office. In 2003, she was elected district attorney of San Francisco. She was then elected attorney general of California in 2010; she was re-elected in 2014.

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Sounds like someone Trump supporters would like.
 

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re: Joe Biden: I Picked Kamala Harris Because She's ˜Ready to Lead on Day One"

It is interesting to see how the VP pick affects poll numbers. Biden leads Trump by 4 percentage points in a new national poll. The Biden campaign hopes that she will energize black voters in crucial swing states. Harris' parents are Jamaican and Indian immigrants and she is not an African American.

She's the first woman of color ever to be on a presidential ticket. She's also a great orator and will skewer "Mother's" husband in the debates. Makes me very proud to be voting Democratic this November!
 

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re: Joe Biden: I Picked Kamala Harris Because She's ˜Ready to Lead on Day One"

It is interesting to see how the VP pick affects poll numbers. Biden leads Trump by 4 percentage points in a new national poll. The Biden campaign hopes that she will energize black voters in crucial swing states. Harris' parents are Jamaican and Indian immigrants and she is not an African American.
aren't many Jamaicans of African heritage?
 

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re: Joe Biden: I Picked Kamala Harris Because She's ˜Ready to Lead on Day One"

It is interesting to see how the VP pick affects poll numbers. Biden leads Trump by 4 percentage points in a new national poll. The Biden campaign hopes that she will energize black voters in crucial swing states. Harris' parents are Jamaican and Indian immigrants and she is not an African American.

Jamaicans have various countries of origin, but the vast majority of Jamaicans are of African descent, with minorities of Europeans, East Indians, Chinese, Middle Eastern and others or mixed ancestry.

Do you think southern slaveholders ever made the fine distinction you're straining to make?

You're embarrassing yourself. If that's possible.
 

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re: Joe Biden: I Picked Kamala Harris Because She's ˜Ready to Lead on Day One"

She's the first woman of color ever to be on a presidential ticket. She's also a great orator and will skewer "Mother's" husband in the debates. Makes me very proud to be voting Democratic this November!

We'll see. This will be the first time she has ever squared off against an interlocutor from an opposing party. :mrgreen:
 

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re: Joe Biden: I Picked Kamala Harris Because She's ˜Ready to Lead on Day One"

Good. I want Kammy as president anyway. Maybe she'll make Warren her VP.

A man can hope.
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what masculine values would a Harris/Warren ticket advance?
 

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We'll see. This will be the first time she has ever squared off against someone of a different party.

she was pretty awful dealing with like minded folk
 

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she was pretty awful dealing with like minded folk

The patina wears off pretty quick with her. She is very lucky that she is not running for office in a purple state.
 

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Sounds to me like Biden picked someone he thought was capable of running the country.

The democrat voting public don’t believe so, otherwise she would have received more than 2% of the vote and wouldn’t have had to drop out of the primaries so early. But as we know the reason for her failed campaign was the racist and sexist views of the democrat voting public.
 

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She's the first woman of color ever to be on a presidential ticket. She's also a great orator and will skewer "Mother's" husband in the debates. Makes me very proud to be voting Democratic this November!

If she is so wonderful, why didnt you (or any other democrat) support her during the primaries?
 

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The democrat voting public don’t believe so, otherwise she would have received more than 2% of the vote and wouldn’t have had to drop out of the primaries so early. But as we know the reason for her failed campaign was the racist and sexist views of the democrat voting public.

No, it is because she was a rather unlikeable glass cannon who could fire and bellow, but the moment she was struck with a toffee hammer by Tulsi Gabbard she shattered. And to be fair, it is exceedingly difficult to defend one's record of being an arrogant, tyrannical bureaucrat.
 

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Re: Joe Biden: I Picked Kamala Harris Because She's ˜Ready to Lead on Day One"

aren't many Jamaicans of African heritage?

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Kamala Harris is the daughter of an Indian-American mother and Jamaican-American father, who is a professor emeritus at Stanford University. Donald Harris' family owned a plantation in Jamaica and his maternal ancestor is an Irish sugar planter Hamilton Brown.

Donald J. Harris - Wikipedia
 
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If she is so wonderful, why didnt you (or any other democrat) support her during the primaries?

You have no idea who I supported for the primary.
 

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Kamala Harris is the daughter of an Indian-American mother and Jamaican-American father, who is a professor emeritus at Stanford University.

Awww. She was a real cutey. I'm a sap for baby pictures.
 

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And this is a problem because...?

I think it is unfortunate. I trust Biden to exercise restraint in office and safeguard our civil rights from encroachment by the state far more than I trust Kamala Harris.

Her record demonstrates that she exercises executive power over people's lives a bit too free and easily for my tastes. I am given to distrust all those who seek power. And I am certainly against those who outright state that they shall abuse their power by exercising it to the total limit and beyond if it is given to them.
 
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Re: Joe Biden: I Picked Kamala Harris Because She's ˜Ready to Lead on Day One"

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Kamala Harris is the daughter of an Indian-American mother and Jamaican-American father, who is a professor emeritus at Stanford University.

Donald J. Harris - Wikipedia

does her father have African blood? I honestly don't know. Its fairly obvious that Jamaica does well in Olympic sprinting events because they have the same Western African heritage that our top sprinters have as well
 
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