Kamala Harris announces she is running for president in 2020
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
California Sen. Kamala Harris announced Monday that she is running for president, joining a fast-growing crowd of Democrats jumping into the race the 2020 race. “I’m running for president of the United States, and I’m very excited about it,” Harris said.
Harris, 54, made the announcement on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” The former California attorney general was elected to the Senate in 2016. Since then, she has worked to establish a national profile through her questioning of President Trump’s judicial nominees on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Still, her record as a prosecutor and state attorney general have attracted new scrutiny from liberals as she has inched closer to a presidential run.University of San Francisco associate law professor Lara Bazelon recently argued in an op-ed piece that the perception that Harris acted as a “progressive prosecutor” during her tenure as the district attorney of San Francisco and then California’s attorney general contradict her actions. "Time after time, when progressives urged her to embrace criminal justice reforms as a district attorney and then the state’s attorney general, Ms. Harris opposed them or stayed silent,” Lara Bazelon wrote in the New York Times.
Republicans are taking her seriously as a top-tier candidate. “At 54, Harris is two decades younger than some of her septuagenarian competitors – an age that enables her to appeal to the Instagram crowd without being painted as inexperienced,” said Colin Reed, a Republican strategist who worked for former Republican Sen. Scott Brown. “A child of immigrants, she brings diversity to a party obsessed with racial and gender politics.
Harris’ announcement comes as a slew of Democrats have begun making plans to run for the White House in 2020.
In recent weeks, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro have moved forward with plans to seek the party’s nomination.
Other prominent figures, including former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, are also mulling possible campaigns.
Tags
Who is online
481 visitors
I have to say, Sen. Harris looks good for 54. Based on her record in law and politics, she would probably make a very good president.
The question I have to ask is good for who and what segment of the population? She is a hard core progressive leftist liberal who has a well known disdain for conservatives. So how will she make a good president? I am not asking this in a negative way. I am genuinely curious why you think she would do a good job?
There's a plus for her right off the bat.
She is well educated and experienced in matters of law and politics. Also, she seems to show a concern for the well-being of the public she serves. She is a supporter of individual rights, including abortion and gay rights. She's tough on criminals, but tempers it with a sense of justice and compassion, including attempts at rehabilitation. She also shows a greater support for the middle class and poor. She also shows a degree of integrity. I won't get into all her sociopolitical positions here. That's researched easily enough. Neither do I agree with all of her views. But overall, she seems like someone who would put the American people first, especially the middle class and working class.
Okay, I appreciate your honesty. Myself, I am more curious about her stand on the military, such as military pay and allowances for active duty and retirees, which fall behind the civilian sector. Military equipment budgets. I would also like to know what she would do to fix the VA system. Last but not least our broken immigration system. I am not asking you for answers to the above, but they are issues that need to be addressed. They are more important to some than others, but as you said above they are easily researched. The things I mentioned will determine votes for any candidate running for president. Thank you for your polite and courteous answer. A good evening to you.
Those too are but few issues which need to be addressed as well. I know she's OK with sanctuary cities, an areally I disagree with. I'm not sure where she stands on the military. This includes the VA. There are no easy fixes to those problems and will probably and significantly factor into her campaign. Only time will tell. No doubt her stance on various issues will become more apparent when campaign time comes around.