Let's pretend for one moment that he does die before the election, just for the funsies. What happens then? Will the nomination revert to option number 2, aka Bernie Sanders? Or will his running mate automatically replace him just the way Vice-President is supposted to step in after the Big Man in the White House chokes on a piece of matzo? Does he even have a running mate yet?
US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)
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That'll get the blacks to vote for Joe! Pick the woman who incarcerated a shit ton of them for smoking weed then went on a popular black radio show to lie about smoking weed listening to Snoop and Tupac albums years before they came out. What could go wrong?!
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Between being half-Jamaican, half-East Indian, and having a direct and intentional role in the disproportionate suffering of black men in the legal system, I don't think "the black community" is going to be rushing to claim her.
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Aug. 11, 2020, 3:15 PM CDT / Updated Aug. 11, 2020, 3:25 PM CDT
By Deepa Shivaram
Joe Biden has chosen Kamala Harris, the prominent senator from California whose political career has included many barrier-breaking moments, as his running mate, his campaign announced on Tuesday.
The decision comes more than a year after Harris, who was also a 2020 Democratic candidate, clashed with Biden over racial issues during the first primary debate. If elected, she would be the nation’s first female, first Black and first Asian American vice president.
Picking Harris, who is 55, provides the ticket with some generational diversity. Biden, 77, would be the oldest president-elect in U.S. history.
The announcement from Biden caps weeks of speculation and is Biden’s biggest decision to date as the presumptive Democratic nominee — a detail Biden himself noted in his announcement.
"You make a lot of important decisions as president. But the first one is who you select to be your Vice President. I’ve decided that Kamala Harris is the best person to help me take this fight to Donald Trump and Mike Pence and then to lead this nation starting in January 2021," Biden wrote in an email from his campaign to supporters.
Harris, the only Black woman in the U.S. Senate, was elected in 2016 after serving as California’s attorney general and, before that, San Francisco district attorney. A native of Oakland, California, and the child of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, Harris has said she was inspired to attend law school after joining civil rights protests with her parents.
"She’s been a fighter and a principled leader and I know because I’ve seen her up close and I’ve seen her in the trenches," Biden said of Harris at a virtual fundraiser in June.
As attorney general, Harris worked closely with Biden’s late son, Beau Biden, when he was Delaware's attorney general, particularly in challenging big banks in the wake of the housing crisis. In her book, "The Truths We Hold: An American Journey," Harris says the pair "talked every day, sometimes multiple times a day."
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Because of their friendship, Harris' attack on Biden during the first Democratic primary debate— for his record on busing and working with segregationists— came as a shock to the Biden campaign, his family and the candidate himself.
"I was prepared for them to come after me, but I wasn't prepared for the person coming at me the way she came at me. She knew Beau, she knows me," Biden said in an interview later that summer. He said Harris had "mischaracterized" his position.
The surprise and backlash of that debate moment in Miami was still top of mind for Biden's wife, Jill, as recently as March. Jill Biden said in a virtual fundraiser, "Our son Beau spoke so highly of her and, you know, and how great she was. And not that she isn't. I'm not saying that. But it was just like a punch to the gut. It was a little unexpected."
Both Biden and Harris allies have acknowledged that, in the months after she left the race, Harris has given her full support to the Biden campaign. She has often campaigned virtually for Biden, holding joint fundraisers with the candidate and roundtables around issues like the racial disparities in coronavirus cases and protecting the Affordable Care Act. In a June virtual fundraiser, she raised$3.5 million for the campaign.
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Harris was praised for her pointed questioning of Attorney General Bill Barr and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during their respective confirmation hearings, highlighting her record as a prosecutor.
But her record as a prosecutor, especially on issues like marijuana convictions and truancy, has also been a source of criticism, especially from younger, more progressive voters.
Harris has faced pushback in recent weeks from some Biden allies who said the former presidential candidate is too ambitious— criticism that many were quick to point out was sexist.
"Our campaign is full of ambitious women going all out for Joe Biden," Biden’s campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a tweet. "Whoever he chooses from the very qualified options to help him win & unite the country, she'll be one too."
Harris responded during a virtual conference with Black Girls Rock earlier this month.
"There will be resistance to your ambition," she said. "There will be people who say to you, you are out of your lane. But don’t let that burden you."
Harris ended her presidential bid in December, dogged by fundraising problems and reports of power struggles in the top leadership of her campaign.
Throughout the pandemic, Harris has been living in her Washington apartment with her husband, Douglass Emhoff, an entertainment lawyer. She attended Howard University for her undergraduate degree and was a Capitol Hill intern in the very same office she occupies today.
Why did this retarded asshole choose Harris as his VP? He just gave one more thing for Trump to attack him on. This bitch called him a racist for his stance on busing in the 70s.
Nevermind Tulsi Gabbard raping Harris with a strapon in the primary debates.
This is going to be an absolute shitshow.
And she has a white husband.
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Kamala is Bollywood white.
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He chose the person who used the bedroom for career advancement. Even the people I am talking to who don't like Trump HATE Harris because she's an embarassment.
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...I was under the impression that this chick doesn't sit well with blacks? on a scale from 1 to 10, how bad of a decision is this?
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Wonder if how long till they delete this.
Kamala Harris on Instagram: “There was a little girl in California who was bussed to school. That little girl was me. #DemDebate”
Kamala Harris (@kamalaharris) added a photo to their Instagram account: “There was a little girl in California who was bussed to school. That little girl was me. #DemDebate”
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I would die a happy man if she came out on stage at the DNC with this music playing.
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If Biden wins, I would be surprised if he doesn't step down in the first 100 days, let alone 4 fricking years.
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I wonder if they mistook all the Trump supporters saying "I hope he picks Kamala" to mean THEY would vote for Biden if Kamala was his VP pick
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Obama is half white and half Kenyan and they still pretended he was African American.
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It's going to be weaponized against her, hard.
She has a bad record as an attorney and prosecutor. She's going to be attacked for that high crime of not being woke enough to release criminals and engaging in the slave trade holy shit.
She also has a track record of openly stating that they need harsher penalties and longer sentences in California so they can exploit cheap prison labor.
This is the tip of the iceberg, really. Any amount of digging will net you a lot of moves in her tenure that are....not very flattering. All of it is ripe to be weaponized by Trump, and you know he will.
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Anybody got the latest weather report from hell? Is it perhaps a bit nippy there? Because I just decided to vote for Trump.
Not even memeing. Until this very moment I was still planning to file a third party protest vote, but I now realize that Trump IS the protest vote.
You fuckers asked for this.
Not even memeing. Until this very moment I was still planning to file a third party protest vote, but I now realize that Trump IS the protest vote.
You fuckers asked for this.
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He's only 3 years older than Trump
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BAHAHAHAHAHA, WHO THE FUCK WANTS THIS INSANE CUNT ANYWHERE NEAR THE WHITE HOUSE; JOE YOU STUPID FUCK. This is a fucking mirror for Palin. This is negative charisma through the goddamn bedrock.
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>happy birthday to THIS little girlView attachment 1512831
Wonder if how long till they delete this.
Kamala Harris on Instagram: “There was a little girl in California who was bussed to school. That little girl was me. #DemDebate”
Kamala Harris (@kamalaharris) added a photo to their Instagram account: “There was a little girl in California who was bussed to school. That little girl was me. #DemDebate”
Nooooooo
Its fucking 2016 all over again
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three hunned
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ngl, my possibility of a begrudging vote for Trump just got way higher just so to fuck over Copmala
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