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House Republican leaders told lawmakers to focus on criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris’ record without reference to her race and gender, following caustic remarks from some Republicans attacking her on the basis of identity.
During a closed-door meeting Tuesday morning, chair of the House GOP campaign arm Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) and others issued the warning after a series of comments by their members that focused on Harris’ race as well as claims she is a “DEI” pick, according to two people in the room.
In the 48 hours since President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race, Republican leaders have tried to train their criticism of the presumptive Democratic nominee on her handling of the border and her plan to skip Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress.
But several Republicans immediately took the criticism in a different direction. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said Monday that Harris was a “DEI vice president” and Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) over the weekend questioned if Democrats are sticking by her “because of her ethnic background.” If nominated, Harris would be the first Black and South Asian woman to be a major party nominee.
so nerds how many days until a chud politician calls Kamala the n-word live?
They’ve gone all in on DEI. Is woke out now? Maybe because they could never define it when asked
Of course they would focus on her ethnicity instead of her all-round awfulness
It’s like asking a european to not fellate american boots. Mindless dogs can’t help themselves
They can’t focus on that because cops and ”tough punishments for criminals” are some of the things they love the most.
Imagining a major European center-left party nominating a Romani candidate for PM/President and the reactionaries shitting the bed so hard raging about it that they get the Romani equivalent of Keir Starmer elected
But remember, the facts don’t matter that much!
They could recast her as a progressive prosecutor and just generally incompetent. The have all the talking points lined up for the first part from campaigns against Larry Krasner, Chesa Boudin, etc. For the second part, they could just cherry pick a few cases someone in her office messed up (or just had an egregious result, regardless of what her office did) and spam coverage about those (like the old Willie Horton ads).
It’d rile up the chuds and make Harris have to figure out how to present her record to Democrats who have pretty varied opinions on how DAs should act.
Some obscure 19th century racist word will be said on a hot mic before Halloween 2024
Yeah, some Senator whose parents were Civil War veterans is going to call her a “trolley howler” or something that everyone will have to look up, but will turn out to be worse than the n-word.
Your latheing skills are too powerful because you already made it happen!
She was already called a “Jezebel” which i feel like counts
Ironically Kamala is indeed “forced diversity.”. You will never convince me that Dixie Joe knew who she even was and willingly picked her before accidentally promising to choose a black woman as VP. For fuck’s sake she dropped out before it even began.
I think Joe would definitely remember the “that little girl was me” from the debate. His brain may have been melting but anything that hurt his massive ego would stick for sure.
how do you think Joe Biden became president? he won the 2020 nomination solely because of his association with Obama, and he was really only appointed VP because he was a segregationist old white man who could appeal to casually racist white moderates. Biden’s polls peaked only around 3-4% in the 2008 primaries, Kamala at least peaked up to 16% in her run
strategically obama would’ve never picked a woman or another poc for the ticket. so you can reasonably say biden only got where he is for his race and gender
also, harris was probably also pretty calculated, not just a pity pick. having a woc perceived as being progressive while not actually believing in anything was perfect for pulling naive progressive libs. a white male + white male ticket wouldn’t have done him any favors and she was assertive while more human-seeming than the other candidates
They can’t help themselves
