Kamala Harris 2020 campaign megathread

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A black female gun grabbing lawyer from California.

Good luck with the WWC in Michigan and Ohio.

At least you admit it's racism/sexism

About time they do. It's always funny to me how the same people who pretend the only reason those infamous WWC voters went for Trump in 2016 was because of economic anxiety and it had nothing to do with race and gender will always talk about how Gillibrand, Booker or Harris have absolutely no chance to win any of these voters back.

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She has the most potential to be the Marco Rubio of the Dem field, someone who looks good theoretically on paper and should do well with certain groups but utterly flops on the debate stage or the trail. There's also a decent chance she could lose her home state.

That,s Booker, but she is not that far off.

Yeah, I would also say Booker (he's more charismatic than KH), and so was and is Rubio. KH lacks charisma a bit (she's like Heather Dunbar from "House of Cards"), but she makes up lacks of charisma with her media and donors (small) hype.

Err...that $1.5 million came from 38 donors (over $30,740 per-person) IIRC.  Not exactly what I’d call small donors

Other way around.

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One thing that should worry Harris supporters is that she doesn't seem like she'd be a wave-proof President (think 2022 and 2024, and if she manages to win a second term, 2026).

No one is going to be a wave-proof President, Republicans will hate any Democrat and come out in droves to vote against them in the midterms.

True, but Dems could nominate someone that could play the trends to the hilt the same way Trump did and created a red tint in the Senate.

And 2022 is an excellent map to get such an effect in The Senate, even as the GOP make inevitable gains elsewhere.

Any Republican president would have created a red tint in the Senate with the 2018 maps.

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Why are leftist Americans so hell-bent on banning private insurance? I never understood that. Does any Western country with public health insurance do that?

Within the Democratic Party, it's almost entirely a product of (1) Sanders being against it for reasons that, at this point in his political development, are best described as personal idiosyncrasies and (2) Harris, Gillibrand, et al. signing on to his Medicare for All plan, seemingly without bothering to understand its basic details.

People on the hard left have their own reasons, but I am convinced that this is the sole reason that the "ban private insurance" discussion occupies space in the political mainstream. It's really strange that it's getting conflated with the debate over universal public coverage.

Actually, Gillibrand explained her position on Pod Saves America. She wrote the transition part in Bernie's bill and she doesn't abolish private insurance. She considers private assurances, for the most part, will slowly and progressively disappear (with some exceptions) since it won't be able to compete with a public option.