2020 Election Thread (formerly: 2020 Presidential Candidates Thread) (Part 1)

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she officiated michael jackson’s wedding, which imho is a huge red flag combined with woo woo talk about love and acceptance + allegations of bullying

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cortez / gravel 2028

A fundraising choice is also a policy. If it’s legitimately something we’d call out a white man for, that’s fine. It’s the racism and sexism and where they intersect that we need to avoid.

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https://twitter.com/elisabeth/status/1144445831157673984?s=21

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A former Wells Fargo executive who defended the bank during its massive fake accounts scandal is hosting a fundraiser for Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign on Saturday, according to an invitation obtained by HuffPost .

In a statement, Harris spokesman Ian Sams defended the candidate’s record. “She literally investigated Wells Fargo as Attorney General and won an $8.5 million settlement for Californians, and she’s the only major candidate in this race who’s actually prosecuted banks for screwing people over,” Sams said.

Bustos’ LinkedIn profile says he is now the senior director of the center for social justice at GlideSF, a prominent progressive church in San Francisco.

Good to know, but I’d still vote for Harris. I like Warren, too.

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Excellent movie reference, but I fear it will fly over the heads of anyone under 35. :slightly_smiling_face:

I seem to recall a video surfacing not long ago with Harris joking about sending other POC to prison long term. We need a whole lot less incarceration in the US, not metric tons more.

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Kamala Harris is a cop. ACAB.

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Catchy.

If anyone’s interested, here is a detailed, balanced look at Harris’s record as a prosecutor and senator: Kamala Harris’s criminal justice record, explained - Vox — it references the NYTimes opinion piece linked above, among many other things.

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Funny, I wear hoodies all the time and nobody thinks I’m a gangbanger. I wonder why that is…

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She’s a transphobe too. The TERFs on the gendercritical subreddit are supporting her because of this.

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Well this is interesting.

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If there is ever a Harris - Trump debate, Trump will be pissing blood.

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And I would pay to see it. I don’t know if she would be the best president, (she would be lightyears better than Trump of course) but she would be the best Trump buster, IMHO. That counts for something. A black woman destroying him in a public forum would be must-see tv, absolutely.

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Watching the debate I wondered if Mayor Pete has been letting his five o’clock shadow out so he doesn’t look so young.

Separately, here’s some debate news that just came out.

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