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With the abrupt end to President Joe Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris could become the first Black and Indian American woman to lead a major party ticket. First, she must convince naysayers in her party that she has learned from her past mistakes and can unite voters behind her candidacy.
If she succeeds, it would tee up a potential contest between a longtime prosecutor and a convicted felon, former President Donald Trump.
The 59-year-old Harris, who was born in Oakland and raised in Berkeley, graduated from UC Law San Francisco and served as San Francisco district attorney, California attorney general and U.S. senator from California before Biden asked her to join the presidential ticket in 2020.
The party now finds itself in the unprecedented position of weighing candidates at the 11th hour, though discussion of Harris바카라 게임 웹사이트 strengths and weaknesses as a candidate for the top of the ticket has swirled for weeks after Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s disastrous debate performance against Trump on June 27. More than 30 Democratic lawmakers Biden to exit the race.
Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s decision means that his 3,896 pledged delegates are free to vote for the candidate of their choice. Biden Sunday, just minutes after announcing his decision to exit the race. Harris will still need to persuade a majority of Democratic delegates to vote for her.
Harris will also need to quickly choose a vice presidential running mate if she gets enough support for a presidential run. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear have been mentioned as vice presidential contenders should Harris become the presidential nominee. She with Cooper and Shapiro in the weeks before Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s announcement.
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Part of the reluctance to embrace Harris can be traced to her failed 2020 presidential campaign, which began spectacularly with the candidate announcing her run at a in downtown Oakland but never caught on with voters.
Her campaign was seen as erratic as she toggled between the moderate and progressive wings of the party, with neither fully embracing her. While she was progressive on some issues such as her support for debt-free college tuition, many on the left couldn바카라 게임 웹사이트t let go of her history as a career prosecutor.
Harris was in her home state before she ended her campaign in December 2019.
She reemerged on the national stage and performed well on the campaign trail when Biden selected her as his running mate, but it was a different story when she entered the White House. There, she was handed a portfolio of the nation바카라 게임 웹사이트s most difficult challenges, from taking on the causes of illegal immigration to bolstering voting rights. She made little headway on either.
Several attendees of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee falsely referred to Harris as the administration바카라 게임 웹사이트s 바카라 게임 웹사이트border czar바카라 게임 웹사이트 and warned that America would be less safe with her at the helm.
Trump campaign adviser Chris LaCivita was asked onstage during an RNC event what he believed to be Harris바카라 게임 웹사이트 biggest vulnerability. 바카라 게임 웹사이트Border czar,바카라 게임 웹사이트 .
For much of her time as vice president, she has been excoriated on social media by right-wing critics and assorted trolls.
Trump has insulted Harris from almost the moment she became a candidate. At a 2020 rally in North Carolina he said, "People don't like her. Nobody likes her. She could never be the first woman president. She could never be. That would be an insult to our country."
Several speakers at the Republican National Convention 바카라 게임 웹사이트 including Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트s son Eric, failed presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and San Francisco venture capitalist David Sacks 바카라 게임 웹사이트 demeaned Harris바카라 게임 웹사이트 intelligence and abilities and even .
As speculation about Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s campaign heated up, Republicans warned that Harris was too inexperienced to take over 바카라 게임 웹사이트 something Biden disputed. Harris has had a far longer tenure in elected office than Trump or his running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance.
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Even as Biden insisted he would stay in the race, interest in Harris grew, rooted in the belief that she would be more competitive against Trump. She is also the only candidate who could access the tens of millions of dollars in the Biden-Harris campaign fund.
Harris already had support from congressional Democrats before Biden withdrew.
One of Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s most important allies, Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, on July 14 that he would support Harris if Biden dropped out. Rep. Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, on July 11: 바카라 게임 웹사이트If/when President Biden passes the torch, I바카라 게임 웹사이트m all-in for Kamala Harris!바카라 게임 웹사이트
A group of Democratic lawmakers from swing states also told House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries that Harris would be a better nominee in their districts than Biden.
Some believe that Democratic hopes to stop Trump rest with Harris, who was ignored during much of her term as vice president and even by many in the immediate wake of Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s disastrous debate performance for the likes of Gov. Gavin 온라인 바카라 게임om and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. But choosing anyone but Harris could alienate Black women, the most loyal voters in the Democratic Party.
After initially struggling, Harris taking the lead on touting abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. She has forcefully kept the issue front and center for the campaign in a way that Biden, a Catholic who often struggles to even say 바카라 게임 웹사이트abortion,바카라 게임 웹사이트 has not.
Nevertheless, some Democrats have long thought she바카라 게임 웹사이트d be the strongest candidate against Trump. As calls for Biden to leave the race ramped up, some of Harris바카라 게임 웹사이트 greatest hits as a senator and candidate began circulating online.
A pro-Harris super PAC that supported her 2020 presidential run produced a 60-second ad that featured the then-senator annihilating Republican Attorneys General Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during Senate hearings. The tagline: 바카라 게임 웹사이트Kamala Harris is the Democrat for president that Donald Trump fears most.바카라 게임 웹사이트
The video was scheduled to air on the day Harris dropped out of the race.
Harris previewed what she might sound like as a presidential candidate during a July 18 campaign event in North Carolina.
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