"Leave Joe Biden alone." --Kamala Harris earlier today in Iowa

[PunkinPi]

Link to tweet

“Leave Joe Biden alone.” —@KamalaHarris
earlier today in Iowa

FULL (via @VaughnHillyard) >>

[Iliyah]

1. Cause she's got class!

[still_one]

3. Also, because I am pretty sure she is aware that that was the policy of the Obama and bush

administration, that the Ukraine Prosecutor was not pursuing corruption cases, and should be removed. Most Western leaders also agreed with that assessment also

[Cha]

6. Exactly!

[mcar]

2. Oh yeah!

[Cha]

45. Hope every candidate will follow @SenKamalaHarris's lead

Link to tweet

Joyce Alene is Woke!

[More_Cowbell]

4. I think that Kamala is getting ready to settle for VP

She's right about Trump and Biden, though.

[FailureToCommunicate]

12. "getting ready to settle for VP"

[Skittles]

27. we'd be the ones settling for the president

[TreasonousBastard]

13. Absolutely not! She's far more effective as a Senator or in the Cabinet. Besides...

Candidates rarely choose their competitors as Veep.

[StarfishSaver]

34. Except Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, John Kerry, and Barack Obama

But other than that ...

[SCantiGOP]

17. She's been running for VP for a while now

N/T

[musicblind]

44. I honestly don't think this one is over.

Right now it looks like it's going to be either Warren or Biden, BUT I've seen things change so fast in the past and since 2016, elections seem so erratic... I believe Harris, Buttigieg, Sanders, Booker, and even O'Rourke all still have a shot at this. Though I feel like O'Rourke's shot is getting longer by the day. O'Rourke's a really great guy from all I've seen, but he needs some good fortune at his back and soon.

If Kamala Harris settled for VP this early on, I think she'd be making a huge mistake.

And that's coming from a person whose first choice is Joe Biden. I don't want someone like Kamala Harris or Elizabeth Warren, someone who truly feel this office is their calling, to just settle. As long as no one is out there smearing fellow democrats, I say keep duking it out until at least the Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada caucus/primaries.

[Cha]

5. lol.. Yeah.. this on trump and ghouli.. she

knows that!

Mahalo, Kamala!

Thank you, Punkin!

[Iliyah]

7. Biden/Harris would be a hell of a team . .

Both fighters!

[Thekaspervote]

16. Yes it would.. luv your HRC sign by the way.. one class act she is

[onetexan]

8. Bravo Kamala!!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

9. Kamala should take her own advice!!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!! or
Elizabeth & Bernie 2020!!
Either way, welcome to the revolution!!!

[JI7]

10. so she shouldn't call out trump lies ?

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

29. I'm talking about Kamala not leaving Joe alone during the 1st debate...

but, you obviously already knew that.


Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!! or
Elizabeth & Bernie 2020!!
Either way, welcome to the revolution!!!

[Tarc]

38. Debates aren't friendly, back-slapping gatherings

Joe handled himself just fine, his followers should follow his lead and spine up a bit.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

39. I don't disagree... it's just seemed a bit strange that Kamala said that in that context.

Politics is not beanbag... so why should any candidate, from any party, leave any other candidate alone? It's gonna be a battle royal... so let's dance!! As the old saying goes: if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.


Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!! or
Elizabeth & Bernie 2020!!
Either way, welcome to the revolution!!!

[Celerity]

14. she made 2 main mistakes, one was foundational, the other was a gamble that did not pay off

1. She never should have went hard left, and thus into the lane owned by Sanders and Warren. She should have matched, say Buttigieg, policy-wise, going with a slightly to the left of Biden stance and plans, but still a very clear and lucid centre-left solid liberal course.

Pete is being knee-capped by two main things (and both are centred with my fellow black voters): his sexual orientation (older A-A's, especial the fundie religious ones in the South are way behind most other demos in terms of LGBTQ acceptance, especial gay males) and then the South Bend PD issues, especially that tragic shooting that halted all his momentum (he was zooming up the charts and even had went to 7% with black voters in in South Carolina, right before the shooting.) The Boykins issue was much more nebulous and so mis-reported, and he had, more or less somewhat contained that damage. Harris has/had neither of those issues.

Harris, if she had mirrored (with her own flair of course put in) Pete in terms of an overall stance and policy scheme, would have had far less resistance, and not have had to walk back her support for MFA, which (fair or unfair) was disastrous and made her look unclear and a semi-flipper. She could have really had a clear path to challenge Biden for the centrist and centre-left votes.

2. Her calculated attack on Biden. She went for a boundary shot and instead got bowled out (a little cricket analogy there, lol). I am sure she would not do it again given a time machine, but, well, time machines do not exist (yet?) and hindsight is 20/20.


I would, if Biden doesn't pick Stacey Abrams, LOVE to see Harris as VP (I have changed my mind on this to a point, as she finally dumped the pipe dream that is MFA.) I still think Abrams puts more states into solid play (specifically NC, FL, GA) than Harris does, BUT both would be superb choices. Susan Rice, whose name I see tossed around a fair amount for VP, unfortunately drops that damn RW stinkbomb that is Benghazi right into the playpen, something I do not see the risk-adverse Biden wanting to roll the dice on. The other, (and non-female) VP option I see Joe going for is Obama potential POTUS-favourite (for years) Deval Patrick, who is very compatible with Biden from a philosophical standpoint and is a wonderful speaker as well. Maybe toss Cedric Richmond into that mix as well. He is also dynamic, and obviously very close with Biden, as he is helping run his campaign atm.

[emmaverybo]

11. Lovely. A patriotic and eloquent defense of democracy. She rightfully points out the duty of the

president and the congress and reaches out to the Whistle-blower with her own authority.

[Cha]

20. ..

[highplainsdem]

15. Good for her!

Brava, Senator Harris!

[Polybius]

18. She wants to be his running mate

I can see that happening if he wins the nomination.

[highplainsdem]

21. Are you suggesting she wouldn't be defending Biden unless she wanted to be his running mate?

I don't think that's fair to her.

Kudos to her for defending Joe Biden by name.

All of our candidates should be doing that. If Trump were going after any of the others the way he's going after Biden, he''d be defending them, very directly, and probably at length, as usual.

[StarfishSaver]

35. Thank you for saying this

When she criticized him, people went after her. When she's gracious to him, people go after her.

I'm starting to wonder if some people just want her to be silent ...

[Cha]

36. I criticized her and now I'm applauding her.. and

so are the majority on this thread.

And, 62 RECS so far!

[gordianot]

19. I figure that is where this is going directly to Congress.

What is the use of playing by the rules in a country without rules? Someone will go down fighting after all this conflict was started by bullies and cowards.

[Gelliebeans]

22. 👍😊

They should all stand together. 👏 I imagine they all will release a statement in the coming days.

[brer cat]

23. Brava, Kamala!

K&R

[peggysue2]

24. Brava, Kamala Harris

Wish all our candidates would unite on this one because regardless of who our eventual nominee is Trump and his enablers will go to any length to smear reputations, make up fake stories and run continuous propaganda pieces. The Trump team has too much to lose if Don the Con fails to win a 2nd term.

This is going to be junkyard dogfight.

[Hekate]

25. Well done, Senator

[Cha]

31. Agree!

[Hekate]

26. Trump plans to knock off all the Dems one at a time. Getting under their skin, into their heads, ...

...and ruining them. Breaking their hearts if he can.

It is what he does.

[world wide wally]

28. Biden / Harris

As I've said it d all along

[herding cats]

30. I respect this deeply.

Kamala is trying to break that cycle here. I appreciate that deeply. I still like her a lot, even though that's not cool since I'm a Biden supporter. Screw it, no one owns me, and no one owns my mind but me.

I think our candidates are for the most part getting the feel of how Trump's playing the game.

Before anyone judges my comment, I'll passionately support the nominee with my time (I plan to travel if I need to) and my vote. They'll have my money without a doubt.

I'm in this to win it this time, period. All the drama prone folks... have fun, but people like me are the majority right now. I love so many of our candidates deeply, but I'm not tearing down anyone and I've been lifting up several on my social media outlets.

Y'all keep being you, and I'll keep being me. Ultimately it's a test to see if good triumphs over evil. We're all doing our things where we chose to fight.

I'm knocking down Russian trolls hand over fist on social media, as are my friends who support a myriad of candidates. Even still I have a 6% following from Russia. I'm not making that up, it's in Twitters metrics. Some extend back as far as 2013 and are currently dormant accounts I can't get them banned. I haven't flushed them all out yet, but I will eventually.

This is modern reality everyone. This fight is big and on so many fronts. More than most realize!

Me and my peers want to win before anything else in 2020. As we all should. We're #BlueNoMatterWho people. We're different but we are the same when it comes to saving our democracy.

Peace to everyone here. Here's to a blue wave in 2020!

Love to all here,

Cats

[Cha]

40. Love to you, Cats!

Mahalo for your post

[herding cats]

41. I love you too, Cha!

My deepest hope is we knock down enough trolls and take back our democracy from foreign intervention. We're working on it, but they keep propagating. It's literally a game of whack a mole,daily.



We're smarter this time. I had no clue the Russian trolls were on social media in 2013, but the proof is there. I've seen it with my own eyes. Luckily it was a test run and we didn't succumb. We know better now and we're coordinating to combat them. We can't rely on social media's algorithms to control them, because it literally kneecaps those of us fighting them. If the MAGA accounts see what we're doing they report and get us shadowbaned, put in timeout, or comment deboosted. It is what it is and it's ugly.

We're #StrongerTogether against this mess, but it's not easy to put out the RW/Russian fires.

I miss you!

[Cha]

42. I miss you, too! I saw your

post before I took the bus to the beach and knew I would respond when I got back.

Mahalo for all you're doing to combat Russian trolls, Cats.. I know it must be so hard with twitter not giving as much ***** as they should.

[PhoenixDem]

32. Senator Harris has decorum, decency, dignity, courage and class

Brava!!!

[Scurrilous]

33. K&R

[Cha]

37. Kick for Kamala!

[musicblind]

43. I've said it before and I'll say it again.

She'd make a great president.

Whoever the nominee is, I hope we win in 2020. I miss having an adult in the White House.

[Sunsky]

46. This is one of the reasons I love Kamala

We will not fall for their divisive tactics. I'm no Biden supporter but this Ukraine scandal, is a Trump scandal not a Biden scandal as the right and some in the media would like you to believe. Biden did nothing wrong.
It's time for us the go on the offensive and not be defensive.