c_hawkbob wrote:I don't care whether you believe me or not, I know what I heard and it's not the only time I've seen the argument made that the Trump team would rather have had someone farther to the left to villainize. Google it, you might just surprise yourself.
RiverDog wrote:Oh, come on, now. You want to be believed, don't you? Especially by people you consider to be friends? I was trying my best not to challenge your assertation. It was an honest question. But I did as you said and googled it. Here's what I came up with:
In addition, about 25% of Republicans said they had a favorable view of Harris and approve of her choice as Biden's running mate. Only about 20% of Republicans said they have a similarly favorable view of Biden.https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/poll-ha ... -1.90700135% difference isn't a heck of a lot of daylight when you consider that most polls have around a 3% margin of error, especially considering that she's a first term Senator and still a relative unknown vs. Biden, who's been around for decades. She's in her honeymoon phase right now. Once Trump's campaign starts with their attack ads and people start learning what's behind that attractive, smiling face, expect that percentage to plummet.
I didn't say to what degree and neither did the fellow talking on the news, but it still proves out to be true. And while you call it "5% difference" it's also true to say that 20% more republicans have a favorable view of Kamala than Biden.
And no, I don't care whether you believe me or not, but I do bristle a bit at being called a liar. Just in case anybody else here is so inclined:
She is clearly not in the mold of a Sanders or even an Elizabeth Warren. The conventional wisdom about why Harris’s presidential primary campaign faltered, in fact, was that it did not have a defined message and it was not clear what she was about. You can spin that in a positive way as pragmatism, or you can spin it in a negative way as a lack of principles. But to suggest she’s some kind of radical socialist infiltrator is difficult to square with the idea that she has got nonradical principles that she has abandoned out of expediency and is also beholden to Wall Street
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... nt-decide/“Kamala Harris is brilliant, tough and can readily take on all the fascists running the show,” she later told The Denver Post. “Is she as progressive as I’d like? No ... Harris faced some pushback from the left during the vetting process because of her record as San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general, which some characterized as furthering policies that disproportionately harm Black and Latino defendants.
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/08/11/kamala-harris-vice-president-herod-gardner-polis-hickenlooper-colorado/
NORMAN SOLOMON: For Joe Biden, he doesn't want the so-called big tent of the Democratic Party to be big enough to include, really, authentic progressive activists and progressive voters. And I think that's disturbing.
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901592063/californians-react-bidens-decision-to-name-kamala-harris-his-running-mate
Look, I'm not and never was saying Kamala is not progressive, only that I had seen her portrayed as considerably less so than others, most notably anyone on "The Squad" and I'm sure Trump would have greatly preferred to have Elizibeth Warren as a foil than a VP choice that many true progressives see as soft on Police or worse, a cop herself (
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasre ... 9a20252b23) during this national movement to defund or even abolish police.
And now just for fun:
https://mashable.com/video/trevor-noah- ... -reaction/