Posted on 04/23/2018 9:00:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Imagine a combination of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and you've got Kamala Harris, the current seat-warming senator from California who, like Obama, is using the World's Greatest Deliberative Body as a resume-puncher before swiftly moving on to bigger things: the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination. Even as a nobody senator, she's been the subject of dozens, perhaps scores of speculative stories about her future, so now -- lest they build her up too quickly -- Politico and other Democrat cheerleaders are cautioning her to get her ducks in order before heading out on the hustings:
Kamala Harris has been called “the female Barack Obama.” She’s built a national following with her outspoken criticism of Donald Trump and prolific fundraising for fellow Democrats. But the California senator’s rapid rise — she’s just 15 months into her first term — has created an awkward issue: Even as progressives tout her as one of the top 2020 contenders, Harris remains something of a mystery back home.
Her approval ratings are solid, but not stratospheric. And 28 percent of California voters say they don’t know or have no opinion about Harris, according to a recent Morning Consult poll — placing her in the bottom 10 of name recognition among U.S. senators in their home states. A Berkeley IGS Poll in September found California voters — by a more than 2-to-1 margin, 49 percent to 22 percent — would rather Harris stay in the Senate than run for president in 2020.
That disconnect could be a problem with California preparing to host an early presidential primary just after Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. “There’s an old saying: ‘You’ve really got to secure your base before you start wandering off to do other things,”
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Why, is she also a Black racist?
The American people...mostly the taxpayers...She will screw us good...
already black and female. She just needs to become a mohammedum to guarantee her victory
Being naive, I like to think that some fraction of American voters has learned that affirmative action candidates for president are problematic.
pelousy will sign her legitimacy papers like she did for the a##clown
Camel Turd.
Not in 2005, but probably in 2007, I forget what magazine I was reading, the American Spectator, or National Review, but the author made the case that, hey! This guy could actually win.
The author was an on-the- ground reporter, and saw what kind of enthusiasm Obama generated.
Could Kamala win?
I have no idea in this era of insanity.
She obviously has the deepest blue areas of the country locked up.
But Obama appealed to "everyone" as he, himself said.
Kamala speaks strictly to the hard left.
She'll tell you to your face that she will ONLY represent "real America", which equals big city liberals.
Bwah hah hah......let the Rat Tards think that Kamala the Skanky Hoe is the savior of their party. It will be lots of fun kicking her arrogant, entitled racist @ss.
Exactly ... just look at what Trump pulled off in 2016, without government experience, without legislative accomplishments, without significant support from his party.
In 2020, he’ll have all that, plus the incumbency, plus a base energized by enduring four years of time-wasting, failed attempts to damage his presidency with false and/or trivial accusations.
In 2020, regardless of what Democrat runs, Trump gets a popular vote win with 52% or greater, keeps all the states won in 2016, and picks up Virginia, Minnesota, and maybe even Nevada and/or Colorado.
The only places where the Democrat vote might improve in 2020 is with popular vote margins in New York or California.
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