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Trust the Russian to dig up the dirt.
by Malek Dudakov
[REGNUM] A new disposition has emerged in the US presidential election. After Joe Biden's emergency and dramatic replacement in the election race, Kamala Harris is ready to take his place. However, not everyone is enthusiastic about her candidacy.
Harris's very low ratings, her lack of talent to be a worthwhile politician, and, of course, the skeletons in the closet all play a role.
Harris, 59, has a long public career behind her. She served as the San Francisco prosecutor and then as the attorney general for the entire state of California. Having gained some notoriety, Kamala was elected as a senator from California in 2016. And finally, she became Biden’s vice president during the previous election cycle.
At first glance, it may seem that Harris's career has been remarkably successful. However, the devil, as usual, is in the details. Harris has been helped throughout her life by two factors: the race-gender card that she loves to play, that is, the "right" skin color and gender, and the patronage of influential politicians in the Democratic Party.
At the very beginning of her career, Harris was actively assisted by Willie Brown, at that time an influential "fixer" and the mayor of San Francisco. There were many rumors about Harris's "special" ties with Brown. It is known that he helped many girls who were close to him to rise. It was thanks to her acquaintance with Brown that Harris was placed in the San Francisco prosecutor's office, and then was elected prosecutor herself.
Once Kamala got her hands on power over people, she immediately began to revel in it. Over the years, Harris has been the subject of countless scandals over her attempts to put innocent people in prison. Her office has been repeatedly caught falsifying evidence or concealing facts about the defendants' innocence from the defense, which is a gross violation of the law.
A separate story is the crazy legal initiatives of the current vice president. For example, she led a campaign to jail parents of students who skip school. Ultimately, however, this initiative was killed in San Francisco. But Harris's career, despite all the scandals, was on the rise. And in 2019, already a senator, she applied for the Democratic presidential primaries.
At one point, it seemed that Harris might even have a chance to win. At the very first debate, she literally tore Biden apart, calling him a racist and a segregationist. The thing is, as a child, Harris was bused to schools far from home that were desegregated. This procedure was called “busing” in America in the 1970s. And Biden, already a senator from Delaware, spoke out against “busing.”
However, Harris quickly fell out of favor with the Democratic electorate. She ended her campaign in early 2020 with a 2% rating, without even waiting for the first states to vote in the primaries. But ironically, it was she who was chosen as his vice-presidential running mate by Biden, the very same person she called a racist.
And in this case, the racial and gender factor helped her again, although even then, Harris’s figure raised many questions among Democrats. 2020 passed under the shadow of BLM speeches, and she was accused of putting many black people in prison for marijuana possession as a prosecutor.
Then, however, the agenda changed, and “progressive” justice became fashionable. Harris immediately changed her tune, supporting the practice of reducing the police, which led to an unprecedented rise in crime in the United States.
There were also questions about her origins. On her mother's side she was Indian, and on her father's side, contrary to the legends that still circulated, she was not a descendant of slaves. Her ancestors were one of the largest slave-owning families in Jamaica; an entire town on the island was named after them - Brown Town. Her great-grandfather Harris Hamilton Brown owned no fewer than 200 souls.
The question remains: did Harris really help Biden in the presidential race? She was supposed to consolidate the ethnic minority electorate around him, but Donald Trump then received a record share of both Hispanic and black votes for the Republicans.
As vice president, Harris faced real challenges for the first time in her life. She was immediately tasked with resolving the immigration crisis at the southern border of the United States, but she was not interested in it, and she clearly lacked talent. So she let the situation slide, which very quickly led to a collapse in ratings.
Harris's international tours didn't end much better. She was constantly blurting out inappropriate things, confusing the names of countries (like North and South Korea), or laughing when answering difficult questions she didn't know the answers to. It's no surprise that by 2023, Harris topped the list of the most unpopular vice presidents in US history.
Harris' failures were one of the reasons why Biden went for a second term. However, in the end, the Democrats replaced him with her. Again, she was elected not for her talents or successes, which she does not have, but for the "right" racial and gender set.
No one would risk taking the seat away from a black woman, because they would immediately be accused of racism and sexism. And Harris herself, after so many years of humiliation as vice president, would flatly refuse to give up her place in line for the presidential chair.
There will be no new primaries, of course; Harris will simply be crowned at the party convention in August. The 14 million Democratic voters who voted for Biden this spring will be spit in the face.
The Democratic Party has carefully designed the primaries since the 1970s to make the candidate selection system look democratic—and they ended up destroying that system by knocking Biden out of the race.
Now it will be much more difficult for them to present Trump as an “enemy of American democracy,” because he may ask a fair question in response: did anyone choose Harris as the Democratic presidential candidate, other than party bigwigs and behind-the-scenes players?
The decision to change horses midstream was made by influential Democratic clans - Barack Obama, the Clintons and others. The latter were the ones who pulled Harris into big politics. And the process of selecting a vice-presidential candidate for Harris is being managed by Obama's personal prosecutor - Eric Holder, who also has a history of corruption and lawbreaking.
Many Democrats, though not all, have reluctantly begun to rally around Harris. They still have faint hopes that a strong vice presidential candidate can help her, although the Democratic coalition remains divided. Some centrist lawmakers refuse to campaign with Harris. Many on the left, like the BLM movement, are once again criticizing her.
Harris's political strategists will try to emphasize the contrast with Trump. One is older, the other is younger, one is a prosecutor, the other was found guilty in a criminal case. Republicans point to the obvious illegitimacy of Harris's nomination and all her failures as vice president. As well as her support in the past for very unpopular measures, from the green agenda and the refusal to extract hydrocarbons to opening borders for refugees and migrants.
Harris will likely have a brief, successful honeymoon in August, with her poll numbers rising, ahead of the convention. But she will have a tough time competing with Trump in September and October.
Recent polls show his support among Hispanics and blacks once again at record levels. It would be ironic if, with Harris at the helm, Democrats find themselves in the midst of a disintegration of their already very shaky minority coalition.
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