{"id":29134,"date":"2020-06-23T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=29134"},"modified":"2020-06-23T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T18:43:00","slug":"kamala-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/06\/23\/kamala-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I regret that Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) represents California, a state Biden can count in his column and thus doesn’t need any help winning, I think Harris should be Biden’s selection as VP running mate. Perry Bacon, Jr. presents quite the analysis<\/a> of why Democrats prefer this or that candidate; not being a Democrat, I think I can simply state the reasons I think she’d be a good pick, if not for the traditional reasons of attracting more votes in the election:<\/p>\n

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  1. Biden owes the black community. Without the black community, Biden would be in his basement with no camera coverage. A lack of gratitude would impact him in many ways, some of which are not obvious, yet are critical.<\/li>\n
  2. Harris, as successful State AG and Senator, and being of Black \/ Asian heritage, presents a positive role model for black and brown women of all ages – in fact, women of all ages.<\/li>\n
  3. Harris is young, a couple of years younger than me, in fact. A whipper-snapper. And an important backup to Biden, if he should become ill, or worse. She is active, quite forward in her opinions, and experienced – all important attributes.<\/li>\n
  4. She is attractive to moderate Democrats. For all the yakkity yak about Warren, she makes the Democratic middle nervous. She’s whip-smart, but too old to be a backup to Biden – and I think she’s effective as a Senator, so why waste her when she’s problematic in the VP role? Progressives may love Warren, but Harris will attract more votes – or at least not drive them away.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    For me, the most attractive attribute is #2, because it’s a long-term good. She brings enough to the table to help Biden win the contest, but it’s her long term impact which will best benefit the United States.<\/p>\n

    I realize there’s nothing insightful in my list, but sometimes it helps just to enumerate reasons for the various candidates. Those are most of mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    While I regret that Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) represents California, a state Biden can count in his column and thus doesn’t need any help winning, I think Harris should be Biden’s selection as VP running mate. Perry Bacon, Jr. presents quite the analysis of why Democrats prefer this or that \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29135,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29134\/revisions\/29135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}