Kamala Harris on Kamala Harris
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Warning: this episode contains strong language and mentions of sexual abuse.
Since 2019, our host, Astead Herndon, has been reporting on Kamala Harris - from her campaign for the 2020 Democratic nomination to her time as vice president. Over the years, the same questions have swirled around her.
What does she stand for? How does she make decisions? Was she only selected as President Biden’s running mate because of her race and gender?
Today, Ms. Harris is the presumptive Democratic nominee after Mr. Biden decided to withdraw from the 2024 race. Americans are once again looking at Ms. Harris as their potential president.
And on “The Run-Up,” we wanted to play two excerpts from conversations that get at those essential questions. One is with a longtime friend of Ms. Harris. And one is with the vice president herself.
On today’s episode:
Senator Laphonza Butler, Democrat of California
Vice President Kamala Harris
I hope to god that this energy and momentum is more 2008 than 2016… and I feel like it really could be. Let’s do this. 💙🇺🇸
Did you listen to this interview? It was horrible. You think this is like Obama? She is waaayyy more like HRC. Just unlikeable all the way around.
It’s not
Do what? Destroy the country more than you did in the last 4 years?
#voteblue down the ballot to save democracy! 💯💙🇺🇸🥥🥥🥥🥥🥥🥥🥥🥥🥥🥥🥥🥥🥥🥥🥥🇺🇸
Thank you, Astead Herndon of The New York Times "The Run Up," for this video on Kamala Harris, particularly the interview with Senator Laphonza Butler of California.
I agree with Harris brushing off the question about Biden "needing to choose a black woman". Presidents choose VP's for any number of reasons, sometimes just to help them get a swing state... or to be a "contrast" to the president in some obvious ways. To throw that at her as if she should waste any of her mental energy on that was a little weird.
Biden literally said it was the primary determining factor for his pick. March 16, 2020, and again on July 21, 2020. This move was mostly to alleviate pressure from the Black Caucus in the year of George Floyd and was pushed in the media by the lobbyist group Sisters Lead Sisters Vote, Inc.
Interesting enough that's the larger inquiry Black Americans have been asking in a "specific policy agenda,_ over Identity , symbolism in a political world post- Obama.
We've been asking since 2016'
He's set up to ask the question. Good of her to wave it off. Not make race anymore of an issue than it already is.
Our unique specific American lineage is an unresolved issue.. @@Pafemanti
She was a clear DEI hire. We all know it, she knows it. The fact she didn't know how to address it is telling. She SUCKS at being interviewed
The interviewer is so presumptuous in outlining Kamala’s way as guarded. She is so smart and educated, and words she says matter: have mattered since she has held high positions. You want someone loose with words please interview rappers.
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So passively combative in a defensive way.
But so clear about her role in solving (the roots of) immigration. Right on point
@@GJWielinga Yeah, she did a fantastic job. The immigration problem got increasingly better under her watch. Now it isn't even considered an issue in this election cycle.
@@mikewilliams6025 Love your sarcasm! But what is your solution?
@@mikewilliams6025 What was she, as vice president, supposed to do? Might as well tell her to fix war in the middle east lol.
@@mikewilliams6025Border crossings are at 3 year low / the lowest point in the Biden administration; the Associated Press reported on dramatically dropping numbers earlier this year, and The Guardian reported on the new low at the beginning of the month.
The 'I honestly dont understand your question' stuff sounds like bullshit. If she needs an interviewer to repeat a question or rephrase a question, she should say so. If she needs more time to answer or disagree with the premise of or doesn't want to answer a question, then she should use better rhetorical tactics.
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21:43 🇺🇲🦅 VP KAMALA HARRIS 🥥🌴
Kamala Harris made her “coconut tree” remarks on May 10, 2023 at the White House while swearing in the President’s Advisory Commission on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Hispanics.
“My mother used to - she would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, ‘I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?’” Harris said, while laughing. “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”
Finally, nuance. Thank you for sharing this interview.
She's going to do such a good job that she will always be celebrated.
Let in 100 million thought the border?
@@CO8848_2I hope you’re pointing out that this is wildly too high of a number.
This may be one of the greatest UA-cam titles of all time.
Please report on what she has done in her role as VP
She’s done exactly what practically every VP does, which is to keep a lower profile, take on some pet projects and be by the President’s side to support them, and to be there to take over if that person can no longer perform the duties and functions of the office.
But a few of the things she’s spent her time in office championing are voting rights, abortion access and immigration/border protection. She’s spent the past few years criss-crossing the country to push for the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, talking to people about the right to choose and the importance of bodily autonomy, and doing whatever she and Biden could to address problems at our southern border. We had a *very* strong and *bipartisan* bill to address issues at the border, which took months and months of work to accomplish, but at the last moment when it looked like it would actually get passed, Trump didn’t want the Biden administration to have the appearance of “winning” on this issue by actually managing to pass legislation that addresses it, so he had his cronies in Congress kill it. Purely for his own political reasons. Think about that. Meanwhile he’s screaming and screeching about how big of a problem it is, how millions of monsters are pouring into our country to unalive and grape innocent Americans. Yet it’s not enough of a problem to support the legislation that was about to be passed…? Ok dude. At the same time, Harris has continued to push for reforms and action where she and Biden can, now that actual legislation was squashed.
So yeah that’s just a bit of what she’s done in her 3.5 years in her current role as Vice President. Before then she was known as a strong Democratic Senator and before then she was known as a strong prosecutor who took on and won thousands of cases over many years.
what do you think is the role of VP? Is this Sarah Palin's burner account?
@cradio52 Cleary you typed what you wish she did. She has been effective at NONE OF THOSE THINGS. In what way did any of those things change to the positive? NONE OF THEM!
She can come off as dismissive. I guess there are worse things.
These NYT intellectuals and their affectations. It's impossible to tell when they are asking a question or making a statement. Maybe it's because they never really do either, do they?
give an example
He asked clear questions, she doesn't have the ability to answer intelligently.
@@EarlyRiser71 that is not AN EXAMPLE just you repeating the first comment. Usual Trump insult without evidence.
Either way, comedy has won.
oh come on 6:00. Why they didn't push the criminal justice angle? It's because a good chunk of the democratic base was pushing defund the police at the time.
Facts
Kamala is ready!
Harris will confiscate working class families trucks 🚚 🛻; how can working class families work without trucks?
I’m a simple man, when I see a new NYT podcast on Kamala Harris I click.
How many simple men did kamala Harris incarcerate for Marijuana use? Thousands, thousands of men and families destroyed.
very simple, it seems.
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This is who the dems think is their best candidate? Holy cow. This interview displays how terrible she is. Wow, she sucks at this.
Get coconut-pilled!
Sir, you were asking useless, underwhelming questions to begin with. You had a brilliant lady in front of you and you asked some really lacklustre questions. Hopefully you improve over time.
Willie Brown
I think she may be too intelligent for an american president. look how threatened the right was of obama. they do better with a bit of a fritatta, like george duba
Was her sister a teenage mom? That’s not clear.
My god, listening to her was so painful. Her brain either just doesn't work under stress or it is just missing intelligence. He gave her all the chances to apologize for her terrible decisions as DA, but she changed the subject to child care. She's just terrible. Foreign leaders will destroy her.
Black Woman + No Votes = DEI Pick
This is so frustrating! Making the VP the head of the ticket after the president steps down is the most obvious interpretation of the will of the people. She got votes as the VP with the assumption that she would be president if the president steps down.
You tell me, who would be MORE constitutional and democratic pick in this situation?
@@t14dann18 it’s called a Democratic National Convention, I don’t know if you have heard of it? It’s been around for 200 years. Votes are cast at the convention and any Democratic Candidate can enter the race, present their vision after 4 days the delegates vote for the nominee. No coronation, No DEI Pick. People would not have voted for Biden/Kamala if they new his cognitive condition. There is nothing Democratic about making Kamala a nominee without a single vote to her name.
She got 81 million votes in 2020 and another 14 million in 2024.
@@t14dann18 having a true process. WTF are you talking about? She was a DEI hire and shouldn't even by in politics
@@EarlyRiser71 did Trump participate in a Democratic process to actually earn his nomination this year? You had 9 other candidates. 9 vs O challngers for the Democrats. The hypocrisy is of Republicans is ridiculous
America should never elect a leader who is not also a parent. I say that knowing I never had children and I’m older than Harris.
Okay, JD. Keep talking. It's not a winning position.
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James Buchanan, Andrew Jackson and George Washington would like a word.