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I worry that a lot of the left is going to be hesitant to turn out to vote for a tough on crime cop so soon after we had nationwide protests against people like her and at a time when the stop cop city protests continue to get national coverage.
Meanwhile, I bet Fox is already talking about the DEI hire who never would have been hired to be anything more than a waitress if not for reverse racism.
And we haven’t even gotten to the chance that she isn’t even allowed to show up on the ballot in some Republican ran states because the deadline for submitting candidates already passed or whatever.
Biden was as bad in many ways and got elected. I mean, the leading point against him during 2020 was his 1994 bill.
Kamala, for as disturbing as some of her policy has been, has also shown to hold true to her personal convictions. As DA in 2004 supported by Feinsteinn, Kamala was vehemently anti-Death Penalty. To the point where she advocated for and saved the life of a cop killer. After Feinsteinn learned this, she rescinded her support of Kamala.
Granted, that was '04 and she spent the next 12 years prosecuting and having conflicting interested as Attorney General (by which I mean her Back on Track policy being at the same time as California's weed legalization, ultimately resulting in her taking way too long to change her opinion on weed, as well as incarcerating people for possession.
From her perspective, she was aiming to get convicted criminals to have their felony record expunged. The thing is... there wouldn't be felons for these crimes. Non-Violent offenders were the main purpose of Back on Track, but the whole idea of the policy was that if you were convicted, you would admit to the felony, which would then be expunged later. The reality ends up being we just get a bunch of felons who don't deserve that status.
I grew up in Oakland so I'm definitely unsure how to feel. I've seen her actions and policy decisions first hand, and how she hasn't always had her constituents in mind. She's deep in the LE. But she has also had moments that go against this, so I'm just... I dunno.
Personally, I think she is better than Biden in many ways and would much prefer her to the previous alternatives. I have concerns, but only insofar as the status quo. The reality is that with Kamala as President we are... back on track as a country.
Edit: forgot to mention, it's important to me that she was one of the first politicians to actually call for a ceasefire. So even though she has supported giving weapons to Israel unconditionally, she also supported the ceasefire in Gaza "calling on Israel to support aid given to the enclave." quote from NYT, not my words.
Regarding ballot eligibility- I think part of timing for this is that the Dems are about to have their "roll call" in the next week or two to officially nominate a candidate to get on ballots before the official full convention.
They're currently calling it a successful coup against a sitting president by the Dem party, and highlighting that Harris was endorsed by Hillary Clinton. But at the same time they are calling for Biden to resign immediately, which would make Harris president instantly.
They want Kamala to get in via succession, rather than via voting. If she succeeds Biden now, they can just claim that she was effectively the incumbent, come November. If she gets in via votes not as the incumbent, it's harder for them to claim it was just "handed" to her by the DeepState(tm).