• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Republicans have to have known that running against Harris was a possibility from the instant someone as old as Biden picked her for VP.

    This is what they came up between then and now. They’re flailing because they either have nothing or have no idea what they can get to stick.

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      Kamala has notoriously been one of the most invisible VPs in recent memory. I actually think that could work in her favor. What in her record from the last 4 years is even attackable? She can campaign on all of Biden’s wins as his VP, but all of her negatives are from before she was VP and are well known by now. She won’t lose voters over those things at this point.

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        Her bad stints as VP are mostly thing Democrats might complain about but pretty much knew were impossible. She got saddled with voting rights and the border, but without any power to even try to do anything. It was just to keep Biden away from the no-win issues.

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          She could say, they got a bipartisan bill across the finish line and Trump killed it because he wanted to run on it. There’s her border counter.

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        Kamala has notoriously been one of the most invisible VPs in recent memory. I actually think that could work in her favor.

        I agree. Biden had downward momentum. Harris does not. Him leaving the race disrupts what Republicans were doing.

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        There was this thing where Biden put her in charge of some border stuff, she flew to South America to tell people not to come. I’m sure they’ll attack her using that, but nobody really cares.

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          But…unlike Biden, she would have the presence of mind to remind people that there was a border solution, negotiated by James Lankford of Oklahoma, who’s as hard right as they come, THAT TRUMP CAUSED TO BE KILLED BEFORE IT GOT TO THE HOUSE!

          It’s literally Trumps fault that the border isn’t secured right now. That bill had everything needed and was a literal wish list for Republicans on border security!

          They killed it so they would have something to hammer on about. Fucking shameless fucks.

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      4 months ago

      Don’t underestimate these character attacks. All it took was one “Yeah!” for Howard Dean to slip.