The
selection of Kamala Harris and the degradation of American politics
13 August 2020
With the
selection of Kamala Harris to be the running mate of Joe Biden, the framework
of the 2020 elections has been set. As was to be expected, the Democrats
have chosen the most right-wing candidates to run the most right-wing campaign
possible.
There is a
certain inevitability to the choice of Harris. In July of last year,—based on a
survey of who would be the worst, most reactionary and at the same time most
suitable choice for second spot on the Democratic Party ticket— predicted that
Harris would most likely be named the vice presidential candidate if she failed
to win the nomination. She had all the ruthlessness, narcissism and
careerism requisite for the job, plus the ethnic background to suit the
Democrats’ obsession with racial and gender identity.
Kamala
Harris is a dyed-in-the wool political reactionary.
This year
has seen mass demonstrations throughout the country in response to the police
murder of George Floyd. As a direct result of the policies of the ruling class,
nearly 170,000 people have died to date in the coronavirus pandemic, with the
daily death toll now at more than 1,000. There is growing anger in workplaces
over the homicidal back-to-work campaign and broad opposition among teachers to
the efforts to reopen the schools. Tens of millions of people are unemployed,
and they have been cut off from federal benefits and face being evicted from
their homes.
In the
midst of this monumental political, economic and social crisis, and against the
backdrop of so much suffering, the American people are to be offered the
“choice” between the fascistic Trump, the conman from New York, and a
Democratic Party ticket headed by a corporate shill from Delaware and an
ex-prosecutor from California. This says everything about the degraded state of
American politics.
Following
the announcement by Biden on Tuesday, the media leapt into action with its
nauseating effusion of state propaganda. The selection of Harris has been
universally proclaimed to be “historic,” a watershed moment.
In terms
of her politics, there is clearly nothing “historic” about Harris. As district
attorney in San Francisco (2004-2011), attorney general in California
(2011-2017), and, finally, US senator (2017 to the present), Harris has
compiled a track record of backing the police, locking up workers and
immigrants, covering up for the banks and supporting militarism and war.
Wall Street
is certainly happy with the choice. “A VP pick that big business can back,” ran
a headline on the inside pages of the New York Times. As for the
military, its main concern is what will happen if the aging Biden doesn’t make
it through a full term. Since the beginning of the Trump administration,
opposition from the Democratic Party has been focused on issues of foreign
policy. Harris, who has no other agenda than her own self-promotion, will be
silly putty in the hands of the military-intelligence apparatus.
The
“historic” character of the Harris nomination is premised entirely on her race
and gender. She would be the “first African-American vice president,” the
“first Asian-American vice president” and the “first female vice president.”
She already is the “first Black woman on the national ticket of the Democrats
or Republicans.” Everything is about the symbolism involved in the choice of
Harris, with not a word about the program of a Democratic Party administration.
Biden Campaign Raised $26 Million in 24 Hours After Picking Harris as VP
The campaign of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden raised $26 million in a day after announcing the selection of Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate.
Biden made the announcement during a grassroots fundraising event with Harris. The former vice president said that the donations included 150,000 first-time donors.
“It’s really palpable, the excitement,” Biden said.
While President Donald Trump maintains an overall lead in total fundraising, the $26 million is a major haul for Biden and signals enthusiasm for Harris. The Trump campaign record is $14 million, which was raised on the president’s birthday in June.
The grassroots fundraiser, which occurred after the 24-hour mark, brought in another $9.6 million, according to the Biden campaign. That total beat the record set during Biden’s fundraiser with former president Barack Obama.
Trump has so far raised $342 million compared Biden’s $278 million.
Biden leads Trump by more than 7 points in an average of national polls maintained by RealClearPolitics. The opponents are scheduled to take place in three debates before the election in November.
Nearly nine out of 10 Democrats approved of Harris as Biden’s pick, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.
During her first speech on the campaign trail, Harris repeatedly criticized Trump.
“This is a moment of real consequence for America,” she said. “Everything we care about—our economy, our health, our kids, the kind of country we live in—it’s all on the line.”
“America is crying out for leadership, yet we have a president who cares more about himself than the people who elected him, a president who is making every challenge we face even more difficult to solve.”
The speech, delivered in a Delaware high school gymnasium near Biden’s home, featured no cheering crowds. The two candidates wore masks as they arrived and kept their social distance on a stage flanked by state flags.
A day earlier, Trump said Harris was his top pick for Biden’s VP. He said he was nevertheless surprised at the choice because of Harris’s lackluster performance in the Democratic primaries.
The joint appearance came just days before Biden will formally accept the Democratic presidential nomination at next week’s party convention, which will take place largely as a virtual event due to COVID-19.
The Republican convention, where Trump is set to be nominated to seek a second four-year term, follows a week later and kicks off a 10-week sprint to Election Day on Nov. 3.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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"In contrast, Biden has promised to open the door
for new wages of blue-collar migrants from
Central American and white-collar migrants from
India, China, and elsewhere."
New York Times: Wall
Street Backs Joe Biden
9 Aug 2020127
3:11
Wall Street’s many campaign donors are lining up behind Joe Biden, not the incumbent President of the United States, according to the New York Times.
Under the August 9 headline, “The Wallets of Wall Street Are With Joe Biden, if Not the Hearts,” three reporters wrote:
While Wall Street financiers tend to be more socially liberal, they have collectively swung back and forth between parties. Data from the Center for Responsive Politics show the securities and investment community donating more to President George W. Bush in 2004, and then to Mr. Obama in 2008, and then to Mitt Romney in 2012, followed by Mrs. Clinton in 2016, than to their respective presidential rivals.
This year, it’s Mr. Biden. Financial industry cash flowing to Mr. Biden and outside groups supporting him shows him dramatically out-raising the president, with $44 million compared with Mr. Trump’s $9 million.
The donors are already pressuring Biden to pick a business-friendly candidate for vice president, and Biden is signaling a hands-off policy toward Wall Street:
In recent meetings with donors, Mr. Biden has said that while the wealthy are going to have to “do more,” the details of his tax hikes are still being hammered out … in July, the candidate spoke of the need for corporate America to “change its ways.” But the solution, he said, would not be legislative.
“I love Bernie, but I’m not Bernie Sanders. I don’t think 500 billionaires are the reason why we’re in trouble,” Biden said in 2018.
Notably, the article did not mention one of Wall Street’s greatest heartburns with Trump — his on-again, off-again popular push to reduce the immigration inflow of foreign workers, consumers, and real estate customers.
Trump’s popular lower-immigration promise could reduce the federal government’s policy of annually inflating the new labor supply by roughly 20 percent. If implemented, it would force CEOs to pay higher wages and would pressure investors to transfer some of their new investments from the coastal states to the heartland states.
In the last few months, Trump has zig-zagged on his low-immigration promises as his poll ratings stay under Joe Biden’s numbers. But on June 22, Trump blocked several visa worker pipelines and promised regulations to ensure that CEOs are forced to hire Americans first.
In contrast, Biden has promised to open
the door for new wages of blue-collar
migrants from Central American and
white-collar migrants from India, China,
and elsewhere.
Those policies are catnip for Biden’s supporters in the technology sector, including former Google chief Eric Schmidt, who is urging the federal government to let companies hire more of their professional workforce from overseas.
Wall Streeters’ resentment towards Trump was noted in one quote from a former Goldman Sach’s investor, James Atwood: “For people who are in the business of hiring and firing C.E.O.s, Donald Trump should have been fired a while ago.”
However, Trump can only be hired or fired by the voters.
Mike Lee's #S386 bill creates a Green Card Lite program for 300K Indian workers.
Lee is backed by Fortune 500, which wants to inflate the Green Card Economy (IOW, indentured foreigners working US jobs to get 140K p/a green cards).
Estb. media is silencedhttps://t.co/fcAB4CbJgk
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) August 7, 2020
WHY BIDEN PICKED HARRIS, AS
EVERYONE KNEW HE WOULD:
1.)
Like Biden, she is totally amoral. Just ask
lawyer to pimps and drug dealers, Dem pol Willie Brown.
2.)
Like Biden she is a servant of big banksters
and demonstrated that no bankster criminal should ever be prosecuted.
3.)
Like sociopath Barack Obama, Harris knows how
to perform like a populist while still serving the rich, Wall Street and big
banksters.
4.)
Like Obama-Biden, Harris advocates amnesty
and open borders to keep wages depressed, build the massive LA RAZA Mexican
welfare state to assure Wall Street of never ending generations of ‘cheap’
labor.
5.)
Harris is nothing more than a clone of Barack
Obama; a sociopath lawyer.
“She proved her political worth to big business
in her 2003 campaign for San Francisco district attorney. Harris ran as a
law-and-order candidate, backed by the police unions and big business.”
“Establishing close ties to the older,
established wealth of San Francisco, anchored in banking, oil and real estate,
Harris followed in the footsteps of two other prominent and wealthy San
Francisco Democrats—Dianne Feinstein, first mayor, then US senator, and Nancy
Pelosi, congresswoman and now speaker of the House.”
“If anything, the opposite has been the case. Harris has
frequently traded on her status as the first black woman to be district
attorney, the first black woman to be state attorney general, the second black
woman to hold a US Senate seat, etc., as a political screen to cover the
right-wing policies she advocates and the social class that she defends: the
corporate elite of multi-millionaires and billionaires.”
Biden picks former law-and-order prosecutor
Kamala Harris to be his Democratic running mate
12 August 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden announced Tuesday afternoon
that he had selected Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate in the 2020
presidential election. The decision, entirely predictable and widely
expected, confirms the right-wing political orientation of the Democratic
presidential ticket.
Biden has a 48-year political career in which he has been
identified primarily with intensified police repression at home and the
ferocious defense of the interests of American imperialism abroad. The 77-year-old
candidate will now have a 55-year-old running mate with her own right-wing
credentials: as a law-and-order prosecutor and attorney general in California,
and, since coming to Washington in 2016, an advocate and defender of the
military-intelligence apparatus.
Biden’s statement came on social media less than a week
before the opening of the Democratic National Convention, which will nominate
the Biden-Harris ticket to face Trump and the Republicans in the November
election. He tweeted that Harris was “a fearless fighter for the little guy.”
The truth is that during her 26 years as a prosecutor—first
in Alameda County (Oakland), then San Francisco, then for California as a
whole—Harris was putting “the little guy” in jail, while she cultivated relationships
with the wealthy San Francisco elite (including the Getty oil billionaires),
who became her principal political backers.
Neither Harris nor Biden is associated with any popular
social movement or linked to the advocacy of any significant social or
political reform. They have carried out their entire political careers under
conditions where the Democratic Party has been moving steadily, and ever more
rapidly, to the right.
For 36 years Biden was a senator from Delaware, the state
where American corporations go to escape regulations, taxes and government
oversight. The tiny state has fewer than one million people, but more than one
million corporations are headquartered there, thanks to a political environment
that guarantees low taxes and look-the-other-way enforcement.
Biden entered the Senate in 1972 and was always associated
with right-wing, pro-corporate politics, rising to become chairman of the
Judiciary Committee, then chairman or ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations
Committee. He was chosen by Barack Obama to be his running mate in 2008 for
precisely that reason: to reassure Wall Street and the Democratic
establishment, in the midst of a global financial crisis, that there would be
nothing radical about an Obama presidency.
Harris, a generation younger, made her career in the Bay Area,
dominated by the Democratic Party politically, during the time when vast
fortunes were being made in Silicon Valley. She proved her political worth
to big business in her 2003 campaign for San Francisco district attorney.
Harris ran as a law-and-order candidate, backed by the police unions and big
business, and defeated the “left” incumbent, Terence Hallinan, who had
close ties to the Stalinist-led trade unions and the sizeable radical milieu.
Establishing close ties to the older, established wealth of
San Francisco, anchored in banking, oil and real estate, Harris followed in the
footsteps of two other prominent and wealthy San Francisco Democrats—Dianne
Feinstein, first mayor, then US senator, and Nancy Pelosi, congresswoman and
now speaker of the House. After six years as San Francisco DA, Harris was the
consensus choice of the Democratic Party establishment to succeed Jerry Brown
as state attorney general in 2010, and then to take the open US Senate seat in
2016.
Democratic Party officials and their media acolytes have
hailed the “historic” character of the selection of Harris, the first
African-American woman on a major party ticket. This chorus of praise includes
Bernie Sanders, who declared that Harris “will make history.” But despite the
hosannas from the advocates of identity politics, her ethnicity and gender
provide no assurance about the “progressive” character of her politics.
If anything, the opposite has been the case. Harris has
frequently traded on her status as the first black woman to be district
attorney, the first black woman to be state attorney general, the second black
woman to hold a US Senate seat, etc., as a political screen to cover the
right-wing policies she advocates and the social class that she defends: the
corporate elite of multi-millionaires and billionaires.
She has now joined this class herself, thanks in part to
her marriage to millionaire entertainment industry lawyer Douglas Emhoff. The
couple had an adjusted gross income of $1.88 million in 2018, putting them in
the top 0.1 percent of American society.
Objectively speaking, there is little to distinguish
Harris, with only four years in the US Senate, from other potential
alternatives for the vice presidency. She is not notably more qualified than
dozens of other senators, governors or representatives. But in the eyes of the
advocates of identity politics, in and out of the corporate media, Harris’s
mediocrity and right-wing politics count for nothing compared to her skin color
and gender.
BLOG EDITOR: THE GIG IS DEM POLS STAGE
THEMSELVES AND PERFORM ACTS OF ‘POPULISM’ WHILE SERVING THE BANKSTERS AND RICH!
In her unbounded opportunism and ruthless pursuit of her
own career and economic interests, Harris personifies both the social
psychology and class basis of identity politics. It is the politics of
privileged layers of the upper-middle class, including but not limited to
minorities, that use race, gender and sexual orientation to conceal the fundamental
class divisions in capitalist society, channel social opposition behind the
Democratic Party, and carve out a greater share of the wealth of the top one
percent for themselves. It is organically hostile to the interests of the
working class.
Identity politics was the key to Biden’s own campaign for
the presidential nomination, which he based on the mobilization of support from
the Congressional Black Caucus and African-American businessmen and Democratic
Party operatives, trading on his role as Obama’s vice president. Prior to the
Obama administration, he had no significant connection to civil rights
struggles and won no significant black support in either of his own
presidential campaigns, in 1988 and 2008.
With the emergence of Bernie Sanders as the leading
candidate for the nomination, with victories in New Hampshire and Nevada and a
tie in Iowa, the Democratic Party establishment launched an all-out drive to
block the self-proclaimed “democratic socialist” and deliver the nomination to
its choice, the former vice president.
The critical turning point in February 2020 came with the
fulsome support of Representative James Clyburn, the political boss of the
Democratic Party in South Carolina and the third-ranking Democrat in the House
of Representatives, as majority whip. Biden had been badly beaten in the first
three primaries, but won by a landslide in South Carolina, thanks to a large
African-American turnout.
Besides Clyburn’s support, Biden was assisted by the
withdrawal of Kamala Harris, who folded up her own presidential campaign in
December 2019, and Cory Booker, who dropped out a month later, insuring that
there would be no African-American candidate to draw away votes from Biden in
South Carolina.
Within days, two more Democratic rivals, Amy Klobuchar and
Pete Buttigieg, threw their support to Biden, allowing him to sweep the Super
Tuesday primaries and become the virtually unchallenged frontrunner. Soon
afterwards, Harris endorsed Biden and began campaigning aggressively for him in
states like Michigan.
BLOG EDITOR: THE GIG IS DEM POLS STAGE
THEMSELVES AND PERFORM ACTS OF ‘POPULISM’ WHILE SERVING THE BANKSTERS AND RICH!
Those celebrating the elevation of a black woman to the
presidential ticket seem to forget that only 12 years ago an African-American
man, Barack Obama, was elected to the presidency. Despite the claims that the
first black president would be a transformational figure, Obama proved to be a
thoroughly reactionary defender of Wall Street and the CIA. He bailed out the
banks and the stock exchange, forced auto workers to take wage cuts, continued
the wars of George W. Bush and added new ones, including Libya, Syria and
Yemen.
The disappointment and disillusionment in Obama’s empty
promises of “hope” and “change” found expression in the shift of significant
sections of the working class, white and black, away from the Democratic Party,
leading first to the Republican takeover of Congress—the House in 2010, the
Senate in 2014—and then the election of Trump in 2016.
One element in Biden’s decision to choose Harris as his
running mate is the need to provide some stimulus, even as poor as this, to
black voter turnout in cities like Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland and
Philadelphia, where the 2020 election could well be won or lost.
Biden is also seeking to demonstrate to his real
constituency, the American ruling elite, that he will represent a steadier hand
than the erratic and impulsive Trump. If the selection of Kamala Harris is
the conventional, safe and predictable choice, that only underscores his pledge
to be a conventional, safe and predictable defender of the interests of
corporate America, in contrast to Trump, who is increasingly regarded in the
ruling class as a destabilizing factor who provokes mass opposition through his
incendiary, authoritarian and racist tirades.
It is significant that on the eve of the
selection of Harris, and the week before the Democratic National Convention,
the New York Times ran a major report on the growing support
for Biden on the stock exchange, while Politico followed
with an account of how Biden has won the lion’s share of campaign contributions
from Wall Street bankers.
The ignominious fall of Kamala Harris
5 December 2019
On Tuesday, US Senator Kamala Harris terminated her 2020 presidential
campaign, becoming the highest-profile candidate to withdraw from the race so
far. Harris’ ignominious end—less than 11 months after launching her campaign
with great fanfare, and before the primaries have even begun—demonstrates the
mounting inability of identity politics to mask a right-wing political record
and program.
While attempting to strike a middle ground between the
conservative Biden and the “progressive” Sanders and Warren, Harris ended up
vacillating repeatedly and never successfully convinced working-class voters
that she had anything to offer. In particular, her backpedaling after claiming
to oppose private health care exposed her thoroughly corporatist outlook. Having ascended the
political ladder and married a millionaire lawyer, Harris’s income placed her
in the top 0.1 percent of society, rendering her occasional “left” populism a
transparent fraud.
First announcing her campaign on Martin
Luther King Jr. Day, Harris repeatedly invoked her identity as an
African-American woman to try to cover over her reactionary political history, first as city
prosecutor in Oakland and San Francisco, then attorney general of California,
and finally as US senator since 2016.
While in California, Harris was a strict “law and order”
advocate. She sent countless working-class residents to lengthy prison terms,
sponsored a law to send parents to jail when their kids were truant, and
defended the rampant overcrowding of the state’s prisons even after the US
Supreme Court declared this a form of “cruel and unusual punishment.”
Upon her election as US senator, Harris was quickly
elevated into the leadership of the Democratic Party. Appointed to the Senate
Intelligence Committee in 2017, she became one of the most fervent promoters of
the anti-Russia campaign, spearheaded by sections of the Democratic Party and
intelligence agencies as part of an effort to reorient foreign policy back
towards confrontation with Russia. Harris was an early advocate for Trump’s impeachment,
not due to any of his real crimes against immigrants and the working class, but
due to bogus allegations of ties to the Russian state.
BLOG EDITOR: IT WAS SEC. OF STATE HILLARY
CLINTON WHO SUCKED OFF $165 MILLION IN RUSSIAN BRIBES ALL OF WHICH ENDED UP IN
THE PHONY CLINTON FOUNDATION FAMILY SLUSH FUND.
Harris was expected to run for president well ahead of her announcement and had been among the top five prospective candidates since at least December 2018. After announcing, she gradually rose in the polls, reaching her peak after the first Democratic debate on June 27 at which she verbally sparred with former Vice President Joe Biden, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. Following that debate, she reached 15.2 percent in national polls, briefly placing her in second overall.
While Harris’s standing in the polls
gradually began declining, a key turning point came at the second Democratic
debate, when Harris’s reactionary record as attorney general was
attacked by Tulsi Gabbard. After that debate, Harris sank below 10 percent in
the polls and continued to fall, ultimately slipping to barely 3 percent.
Beyond her fall in the polls, the immediate reasons for
Harris ending her campaign appear to be a collapse in her campaign finances and
fundraising, and a desire to best position herself to be selected as a vice
presidential running mate. In a public statement, Harris stated bluntly, “My
campaign for president simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to
continue.”
Since the latest release of campaign
finance data on September 30, multiple reports have surfaced indicating that
the Harris campaign became increasingly cash-strapped, prompting the layoff of
dozens of staffers in late October at her Baltimore headquarters. An aide to
Harris confirmed with the New York Times Wednesday that the
campaign would have had to go into debt in order to continue functioning.
While Sanders and Warren have been able to secure over $40
million and $30 million respectively in small donations of less than $200,
Harris only raised roughly $14 million in small donations by September 30.
Further, wealthy donors were more inclined to donate to Biden and Buttigieg,
with the former publicly launching a super PAC at the end of October after
stating he was opposed to super PACs. While Harris could have gone this
route and openly appealed to the financial aristocracy, she evidently felt this
was politically unviable.
BLOG EDITOR: AS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CA, HARRIS
PROTECTED OBAMA-BIDEN’S CRIMINAL BANKSTERS AND MADE SURE NOT ONE WAS CRIMINALLY
PROSECUTED. WELLS FARGO, PROBABLY THE BIGGEST CRIMINAL BANK IN U.S. HISTORY
THANKED HARRIS WITH BIG BACKEND BRIBES AS THANKS. GOOGLE IT!
By then, according to one estimation, she was spending
$1.41 for every dollar she raised.
In her resignation letter, Harris also wrote, “I’m not a
billionaire. I can’t fund my own campaign. And as the campaign has gone on,
it’s become harder and harder to raise the money we need to compete.” The
reference to a “billionaire” candidate includes Trump, who has publicly raised
over $165 million since the 2016 election, as well as Democratic candidates Tom
Steyer and Michael Bloomberg.
Bloomberg entered the race on November 24 after purchasing
$37 million in a television ad blitz, a greater sum than Harris had raised in
her entire campaign. In the days prior to her campaign termination, Bloomberg
surpassed Harris in polling, placing her in sixth place overall for the first
time.
Concurrent with Harris, Steve Bullock, Joe Sestak and Wayne
Messam have recently withdrawn from the Democratic race. There have already
been complaints that the next Democratic debate, set for December 19 in Los
Angeles, will have no candidates “of color,” given Harris’s withdrawal and the
likelihood that Cory Booker, Julian Castro, Andrew Yang and Tulsi Gabbard have
not yet qualified.
The leadership of the Democratic Party will undoubtedly
work to ensure that either Harris, Booker, Castro or another minority candidate
is selected as the running mate to add diversity to the ticket.
However, despite the efforts to entrench race and gender in
American politics, the demise of Harris’s presidential bid highlights the
inability of identity politics to gain a significant foothold within the
working class. For the vast majority of the population, Harris’s constant
invocations of her identity did little to convince them that she was in any way
a progressive candidate. Rather, she was recognized as a pro-corporate
Democrat, the stock-in-trade of the party as a whole.
The decades-long shift to the right of the Democratic Party
culminated in the Obama administration, which oversaw the greatest transfer of
wealth from the poor to the rich in US history, deported more immigrants than
any previous administration, and became the first to remain perpetually at war.
Harris, along with all the other Democratic Party candidates, defends this
record of war, austerity and xenophobia that paved the way for the election of
Trump in 2016.
Why Did Biden Pick Kamala?
Follow the Money
How much did it cost to buy Biden's VP Spot? $3.5 million.
August 12, 2020
Daniel
Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the
Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the
radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
How much did it cost to buy Biden's VP Spot? About $3.5 million.
That's how much Senator Kamala Harris' virtual fundraiser for
Biden brought in back in June.
That not only beat Hillary’s total, but swamped every other
Democrat fundraiser for Biden, except the Obama one, which brought in over $6
million for his old incontinent flunky, and Warren, who brought in more money
in total, but had the misfortune of being a white woman.
The virtual fundraisers were the real beauty contest for the money
hungry Bidens. And Kamala Harris won them in a swimsuit of money long before
the official announcement was even made.
Susan Rice could hardly compete with a paltry $24,000 donation to
Biden.
"She’s been a fighter and a principled leader and I know
because I’ve seen her up close, and I’ve seen her in the trenches," Biden
gushed about the California politician.
The trenches that Biden had in mind weren’t in the fields of
France, but at high-end fundraisers.
Another one of Kamala’s virtual fundraisers for Biden in
July brought in another million.
It’s been estimated that Kamala raised a total of $5 million for
Biden.
What was Kamala's secret? She's plugged into a network of wealthy
donors who got her to the Senate. And then poured over $40 million into her
failed presidential campaign.
The fundraisers showed Biden what Kamala could bring to the party.
And it wasn’t just money.
A Kamala fundraiser for Biden featured Diplo, DJ D-Nice, Jermaine
Dupri and DJ Cassidy. It probably doesn't hurt that Kamala's husband is an
entertainment industry lawyer.
It wasn’t just Willie Brown who got Kamala to the top. It was
money.
Kamala had built her political career on tapping into big money in
San Francisco and then statewide. She routinely outspent her opponents in her
political campaigns. In 2016, she bought the Senate race by raising over $15
million and outspending her opponent almost 4 to 1.
More than half of her presidential campaign was funded by $23
million in large contributions.
That, and not small donors, is what Biden has been running on.
After Kamala Harris dropped out, the Biden campaign "aggressively"
pursued her donors. Now he doesn't need to. After the DNC’s clown car primary
with its obsession with small donors, the jackass party is jettisoning the
pretense that it cares about anything other than big donors and their giant
wads of cash.
As CNBC notes, "her addition to
the ticket could help push the Biden campaign over the top in the cash race
with Trump."
Michael Kempner, a top Democrat donor and the head of one of the
country’s biggest PR firms, gushed, "she has a strong and active
fundraising organization. She will be an important and immediate addition to
the Biden fundraising effort. She is a fundraising star.”
It’s about the money. It was always about the money.
Did anyone seriously think that Biden would pick Stacey Abrams,
Rep. Karen Bass, or Susan Rice, when he can marry Mrs. Moneybags for her money
and the donors that come with it?
Once Team Biden decided that they had to have a black woman in the
second spot, there was only one that came with sacks of money. And there was
only one who could tap into the massive reserves of California cash that has
been used to transform elections nationwide.
Biden vowed to pick a black woman to represent the black
community, but he cynically ended up picking a politician with few ties to the
black community, but lots of ties to big white money.
Wall Street executives are already cheering the pick. So is
Hollywood.
And the black community got played.
But what else is new?
The Democrats picked the daughter of an Indian doctor who was
raised in Montreal and claims that her favorite band is “Salt and Pepper” as
the new big step forward for African-Americans. They disregarded the almost
universal opposition to Kamala’s candidacy by the Congressional Black Caucus,
and by virtually every black activist within their own party, because of the
money.
The Biden campaign told black Democrats that Kamala’s money
matters more than they do.
And black Democrats will be expected to back Kamala up as she
spends the entire campaign accusing President Trump and Republicans of racism
and sexism for opposing her. These accusations will ring hollow among black
voters, just as they did when Kamala was lobbing them at Biden. They fell flat
when Kamala tried to keep her campaign going by accusing the entire primary
field and the Democrat electorate of racism and sexism for not picking her.
Biden supposedly picked Kamala to appeal to black voters, but he
beat her among black voters.
Toward the end of her campaign, Kamala was only polling at 4% among
black voters while 20% had an unfavorable view of her.
But the Biden-Harris campaign is ready to reboot the racism and
sexism charge all over again as it deploys the liar who accused him of racism
to falsely smear President Trump as a racist.
The question that President Trump ought to ask is was Kamala lying
then or is she lying now?
Before the official announcement, the Biden campaign was already
officially coordinating with the abortion groups, that have killed countless
black babies, and Emily's List, to smear Republicans and the Trump campaign as
sexist and racist for criticising Kamala Harris.
BLOG EDITOR: REMEMBER, HARRIS IS A SOCIOPATH. SHE CAN SPEAK
OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF HER MOUTH AND THEN LIE ABOUT THE LIES.
Meanwhile, when Biden's VP search committee asked her about accusing the man
at the top of racism, she allegedly, "laughed and said, ‘that’s
politics.’"
That’s the level of contempt that Senator Kamala Harris has for
the serious charge of racism. All those stories about her plight in
“segregated” Berkeley while growing up as the daughter of wealthy upper class
parents were a cynical political joke. And black people didn’t buy into it.
The question is whether black voters will buy into it when they’re
aimed at Republicans. And whether they’ll let themselves be used as fronts for
more false exploitation of racism by Kamala
Joe Biden showed that he cares more about white donors than black
voters. And that what he really cares about isn’t race, even as he’s trying to
use Kamala’s assumed racial identity to play on white guilt and racial
idealism, but money. That’s all the Biden family has ever cared about.
And if this is how Biden is treating the black community before
the election when he actually needs their votes, imagine how he’ll treat them afterward when he doesn’t need them anymore.
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