I did hear that Harris was a real bitch. I did research and fell upon this comment from reddit:
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Who told you she is hated? She has a higher net favourability than Elizabeth Warren and is currently polling as the overwhelming favourite by voters, black voters and Hispanic voters for VP. And who told you she “only” has haters? You’re blinded by the overwhelmingly white/male/Bernie leaning demographic of Reddit. She has a psssionate base of followers called the KHive made of a multiracial coalition of black women, south Asian women, LGBT people, white allies and Latinx people. They helped her raise 3.5M in her Biden fundraiser and they passionately advocate for her, make her senate floor moments go viral and push back against disinformation on her behalf.
The perspective you’re describing is not representative of Democratic party members or black people at large. Sounds like disgruntled Bernout purists who have bought the smears peddled by his surrogates. I’ll copy and paste a comment I’ve posted a whole bunch of times about why she has a very good record and why she’d be as good a pick as any:
Reddit and faux-progressive media have a hate boner for Kamala in particular. The entire ‘Kamala is an evil centrist cop who locked up more black people than any one ever!!!1’ is largely a political smear from her primary opponents and is not at all representative of her actual record.
She votes more progressive in the senate than the usual leftist faves (only behind Ed Markey):
https://progressivepunch.org/scores.htm?house=senate and she dramatically reduced incarceration rates for marijuana during her tenure (
https://twitter.com/pierceah66/status/1270414069376434180?s=21 ). Please note Bernie Sanders has never passed a bill he authored on police reform, immigration or equality rights, but did vote for the Crime Bill and Iraq War, so why he’s held as the standard for insane purity tests I will never understand.
Against strong pushback, Harris always refused to pursue the death penalty and she instituted the Back on Track program with 10% reoffence rate that was so successful it’s been instituted nationwide. She arguably had the most left platform of any candidate on immigration - as a child of immigrants herself-, black healthcare and has always worked to protect California as a sanctuary state. Contrary to the disinformation campaign against her, she never once threw a single parent in jail for truancy and instead improved attendance rate for low-income kids by 20%, improving their standards of living, food and potential for further education. She won important cases against big banks that rewarded residents in California, cleared the rape kit backlog she inherited and successfully protected sex workers and child sex abuse victims better than any of her predecessors. She was marrying same-sex couples long before it was recognised nationwide. You can read more of her actual, evidence-backed record here:
https://medium.com/@blackwomenviews...accomplishments-by-kamala-harris-cf314eeaad2e.
By sweeping the DA, AG and senate elections in California (the 5th largest economy in the world) all on her first attempts, she is technically the most accomplished black female elected official in the United States and one of the most accomplished black female politicians in the world.
Recent polls eg
http://filesforprogress.org/dataset...urce=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf https://,
www.csdd.northwestern.edu/documents/csdd-survey-results_black-voters-on-black-woman-vp-poll_june-2020.pdf,
https://news.northwestern.edu/stori...unning-mate-favored-for-vice-president-biden/ and
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrew...-harris-for-vp-by-wide-margin-poll-finds/amp/ show she has strong support in the party. A-rated pollster YouGov’s most recent polling actually shows Harris is the most favored among all voters (Harris 24%, Warren 18%, Abrams 9%), among black voters (Harris 21%, Warren 19%, Abrams 14%) and Latinx voters (Harris 37%, Warren 16%, Abrams 6%) for VP. Source;
https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/cjd35jrh5o/econTabReport.pdf. It’s interesting to note the vast majority of black people have always polled at a majority for any black female VP, even though Warren was the specific favourite (mostly due to name recognition). The data also suggests the black turnout and Hispanic enthusiasm will be greater with a black woman on the ticket.
Why is this important? Because white people haven’t voted a democrat for president in decades, but black women voted 94% for Hillary Clinton. She lost partly because enthusiasm among black voters was down sharply. If we as black women are saying we will more enthusiastically and collectively vote if this woman is chosen, it is very valid for us to be listened to. Also, Hispanic voters is the only sector Biden is currently lagging behind Clinton on. Bakari Sellers illustrates this point using his mother here:
https://twitter.com/firinglineshow/status/1273284266600755200?s=21.
In the last few months, she has become even more present in the media discussing reform in law enforcement to protect vulnerable communities and debunking misunderstandings about defund the police (a stance she has had since 2006:
https://twitter.com/adamjsmithga/status/1269761430322139136?s=21 ). She actually over-represents in favorability among black voters (the Democratic party’s most important demographic for turnout) compared with Warren who has near-universal name recognition.
Harris also has a personal relationship with the Biden family as she was friends with his son Beau before he died. The clash during the primaries over bussing has reportedly been shaken off not just by Joe but also Jill who likes Kamala:
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2...is-early-biden-vice-president-favorite-248615.
The faux-progressive parts of left-Reddit will tell you choosing her as VP is “tokenistic” and “identity politics”, erasing her accomplishments and real record. To my dismay as a black woman who identifies as quite far-left, I have realized a lot of “progressives” who supported Bernie and even Warren believe class subsumes race and you cannot be progressive, involved in justice and God forbid be POC at the same time. It also shows they don’t understand how important representation is to us black people and also they are steeped in misogynoir.
Is she perfect? No. She was working in an imperfect system as AG and DA and arguably should have pushed even harder. But she did much much more than her predecessors, inspired many other POC and women in DA and AG positions to go even further than she did and has spent her entire time as a legislator pushing for reform and progressive change that makes it easier. She is beloved among progressive reformers (many she mentored) in different state and district offices in the country for this reason. Activists and critics have also walked back their unfair attacks on her from the primaries (including fraud Shaun King who peddled an insane lie that she had framed his friend for murder):
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/06/07/kamala-harris-biden-criminal-justice-reform-304534 and
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/amp/Spotlight-on-Kamala-Harris-exposes-solitude-of-15353787.php.
I wish people would do the smallest bit of independent research into the woman she is. The “Kamala is moderate, she’s a token, shes hated, she’s just a cop” narrative on Reddit is reductive." - AvaRobertEko from Reddit.
I don't even know what to think of her.