She’s already broken barriers, and now Kamala Harris could shatter several more after President Joe Biden abruptly ended his reelection bid and endorsed her.

Biden announced Sunday that he was stepping aside after a disastrous debate performance catalyzed fears that the 81-year-old was too frail for a second term.

Harris is the first woman, Black person or person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president. If she becomes the Democratic nominee and defeats Republican candidate Donald Trump in November, she would be the first woman to serve as president.

Biden said Sunday that choosing Harris as his running mate was “the best decision I’ve made” and endorsed her as his successor.

  • @Rapidcreek
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    Nothing would irk Trump more than getting beat by a black woman.

    • @the_tab_key
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      I don’t care if it pisses him off. I just want him to lose.

    • @cabron_offsets
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      Man. What a sweet thought. He’d probably have an aneurism.

      • @cheese_greater
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        Its probably already on the way. Its just a hilarious reality plot already thickening

      • @Fredselfish
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        Man now I want to vote Harris badly now! Obama wife would be a great VP really rub in watch Maga heads explode.

        • @ZoopZeZoop
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          Michelle is a thoughtful and intelligent woman with some great experience, but I think she feels like she served her eight years, and has earned retirement (mostly) from politics. I tend to agree. That said, I’d be happy to vote for her in an election.

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      Progressives should vote for her just to spite Hillary. Lol

    • @Zachariah
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      He could drop out of the race now, so he can avoid that possibility.

  • @[email protected]
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    TBH statements like this are hurting her odds more than helping. Everybody on board already knows those things about her, nothing about her policies.

    • @pyre
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      American people are notoriously uninterested in policy when it comes to presidents in the general election. they elected W (with a minority) because they felt they could have a beer with him. they elected Obama for change, him being smart, a good orator, relatively young and black was a huge contrast to everything W was. they elected TFG (with a minority) because they thought he was an outsider. they elected Biden because he wasn’t TFG.

      but yes they should promote Harris’ policies more because they aren’t bad.

      • @AA5B
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        At least some of use do care. While I’m voting against Trump regardless, I’d rather vote for someone. If I do talk politics, I’d rather try to sell the benefits of a candidate, rather than what a disaster another candidate would be

        • @pyre
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          I’ve always argued for that. like, usually if a party is running on being against someone or some group (this goes for parties demonizing gay people or immigrants or whatever minority as well) then i assume they’re not going to do anything for me, otherwise they’d be running on that.

          unfortunately in two party systems it becomes one party running against a minority and the other party running on not being as bad as the first party.

      • @Zron
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        TFG = That Fucking Git?

        • @pyre
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          yeah why not. it comes from “the former guy” but “that fucking git/goon/grifter…” works too.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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      I think its less about changing the odds, and more about giving a needed morale boost to two minority groups long oppressed by politics in general.

      • @[email protected]
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        You should probably be worried about our odds at this point in the game. We can celebrate her traits when she’s in.

        • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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          Oh I’ve stopped worrying about the odds, pretty sure we are permafucked. I’d like to be wrong and it’s not going to keep me me from voting blue down the panel.

          Just that I know from my own experience cultural racism and misogyny is still a ridiculously powerful force, even among progressives.

          And you are giving the public way too much credit. Almost no one really cares about accomplishments when it really boils down to it. It is all about how a person makes one feel, and that is largely informed by media that is notably NOT them enacting their policies.

          Yes she has a good list of positive accomplishments, and has demonstrated her skill at statesmanship consistently to those who follow such things, but that isn’t your average voter. Or even your average swing voter.

          There isn’t nearly as much cultural awareness of her as there is of a certain pants-shitting spraytanned twice impeached and 34 time felon, and people are gullible and easily swayed.

          I want to be wrong because I in at least two groups of the people that cheetolini’s camp squads want to come after first, but I’ve already been acting on plans to get my family out of the country for the last 8 hours and I don’t plan on being on my home soil longer than it takes to vote in November and get on a plane.

          • @Wilzax
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            If you want to be wrong, shut up and help get literally anyone capable of the job into the oval office before Mr. Impeached for Insurrection gets another go at it

          • @[email protected]
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            Nobody asked. Maybe go share your pathetic surrender in your own comment thread instead of attaching it as a reply to mine? Get some better feedback that way.

            • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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              Tune your bot better, I think it’s stuck in high school vapelad mode.

              • @[email protected]
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                Off topic, but fidget spinners fucking rock. Btw whats your favorite vape flavor, bruh? I stick to Grape 3%.

      • @Rayspekt
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        People of colour and what’s the second? Women aren’t a minority if you meant that.

        • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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          In politics they certainly are, and even when they reach high position they face greater hurdles and prejudices than their male counterparts. You don’t need to be tiny in number to be marginalized inhumanely.

          • @Rayspekt
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            I agree, but then maybe just phrase it like that, e. g. marginalized group. Calling women in general a minority is plain wrong.

  • @VanillaBean
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    Honestly more amped up more than ever that there’s a nominee under 60. God bless Biden for everything. That old turd Trump should realize he’s too old and drop out too.

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      She’ll be 60 by the time of the election though.

      edit: it’s not a bad thing, she’s still a lot younger than both Biden and Trump so it’s a huge step in the right direction, I’m just pointing out that she won’t be under specifically 60.

  • @[email protected]
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    Let’s maybe not focus solely on this, instead maybe on policy? Real problems Americans are facing every day is going to win more votes. Making the entire campaign about gender issues isn’t alone going to win shit.

    • Bahnd Rollard
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      Honestly, she has been shadowing an all-around decent president for the last 3ish years and like Obama, has the legal chops to back it up. Im not a fan of her stances from her DA days, but I dont think there is anyone else more qualified to do the job.

    • @Nuke_the_whales
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      You can bet Republicans are gonna make her race and gender an issue though

      • @Olhonestjim
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        Well that’s their loser strategy.

      • @EmpathicVagrant
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        They already have, filling talks in all spaces with mysogyny and racism as soon as biden bowed out.

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        And it’s REALLY gonna help the black and woman vote they’ve been trying so hard to get. Just check out Bowman/Vance these days, dude’s holding in his desire to talk about abortion so hard he looks like he could shit himself any moment.

    • @[email protected]
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      If elections were based on policy the GOP would have ceased to exist four days into Reagan’s presidency.

    • @Asidonhopo
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      I’m happy for another chance at a Gen X president , not ready for a Millennial VP

  • @badbytes
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    93 months ago

    Will she earn votes? Gonna have to do some work.

    • @III
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      Someone asked me what I thought about Biden dropping out. I said, it doesn’t matter. I am over policy, specifically NOT horrible policies like Project 2025.

      So… like… what policies do you support?

  • @Crampon
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    I’ve seen her on TV before. But I didn’t know she was black before today.

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      Her dad is Jamaican and her mom is Indian. Her dad might be half black, I’m not sure. I keep seeing republican memes saying she’s not black or 25% black. Just endless memes trying to attack her on anything they can. Like, that’s not even important, we have a real competent candidate and that’s more than I can say about Dump.

      • @[email protected]
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        It is weird to call her black, she’s as much Indian as she is African. It’s like the racist “1 drop” thing, where if you have any black ancestors you are defacto black, except in this case supposedly woke people are using it as a selling point

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    Does she support Netanyahu as unconditionally as Biden? I’ll vote for her anyway, but it would be nice if she actually took a stand against genocide. I’m probably asking too much, though.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    WASHINGTON (AP) — She’s already broken barriers, and now Kamala Harris could shatter several more after President Joe Biden abruptly ended his reelection bid and endorsed her.

    A recent poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that about 6 in 10 Democrats believe Harris would do a good job in the top slot.

    She spoke often about attending demonstrations in a stroller and growing up around adults “who spent full time marching and shouting about this thing called justice.” In first grade, she was bused to school as part of the second class to integrate Berkeley public education.

    After graduating, Harris returned to the San Francisco Bay Area for law school and chose a career as a prosecutor, a move that surprised her activist family.

    Months into her tenure, Harris declined to seek the death penalty for the killer of a young police officer slain in the line of duty, fraying her relationship with city cops.

    In one memorable moment, she pressed now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on whether he knew any laws that gave government the power to regulate a man’s body.


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  • @reddit_sux
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    That is the real question, is US of A ready for a woman presidency.

    It is has been only 100 years women were given rights to vote. And couple of years more than 50 years to universal suffrage.

    That’s nothing compared to nearly 300 years of its existence.

    /s for those who couldn’t get it

  • @drunkpostdisaster
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    Right now these firsts are secondary compared to the real states of this election.

  • @razorwiregoatlick
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    Would she also be the first Asian person to become president?

  • @systemguy_64
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    Why only black? She is half Indian. I don’t recall an Indian president?

    Oh right nobody cares about other minorities, only kicking out Mexicans and propping up African Americans. Everyone else be damned.

    Also why is the presidency limited to natural born citizens? Most of the world except the US, most of South America and a smattering of other countries require this. Shouldn’t everyone who has worked to gain citizenship be afforded the right to run for office? Doesn’t sound very free to me.

    • @dyc3
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      I would argue it’s a security issue. I think it would be quite feasible for some foreign power to scoop up some 20 year old with nothing to lose and put them to the task of infiltrating America. In fact, stuff like that has already happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_Program

      Nowadays it’s much easier to influence the public by just bombarding them with bs social media posts. Watch the documentary “The Great Hack”.

      • @systemguy_64
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        So ~85 percent of the world is insecure because a naturalized citizen can run for office?

        • @dyc3
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          All I’m saying is that it’s feasible, and very much in the interest of foreign powers to attempt to install people in positions of power. I think that’s a very cold take.

    • catsarebadpeople
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      This guy is a Trump supporter very thinly veiled as a leftist. Just thought folks on here might want to know. Scroll down just a bit and you’ll see the comment where they think that only Democrats are racist and the right treats everyone the same.

      • @[email protected]
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        Leftists are absolute losers, I am not a leftist, and I am not a trump supporter, but I would vote for him over Kamala. Try again.

    • @III
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      A lot of us feel really bad about how we treat non-white races…

      Granted, a lot of us feel really good about it too…

      Either way, it weighs on us.

        • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
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          That’s only been legally possible in the US in the last 60 years.

          The scars are still visible.

            • @[email protected]
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              As individuals many of us do. We baked a lot of racism and bigotry into laws and government agencies, and it still has an effect, and has not been thoroughly scrubbed. This is what folks are talking about when they discuss systemic racism.

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                There is systemic race issues but now it has flopped the other way. People that are white are being intentionally not hired due to their race. How is this any better?

                I would understand if you guys advocated for people being preferentially hired due to coming from a hard home, but now its just based on race or other factors that dont define how hard their life is.

                • @[email protected]
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                  There is systemic race issues but now it has flopped the other way. People that are white are being intentionally not hired due to their race.

                  Oh this old chestnut. If you are either this uninformed or this disingenuous, it’s not going to be enjoyable for either of us to continue this discussion. Someone else can do that work with you.

        • Doubletwist
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          Trying to, but every time we do the right loses their damned minds.

          I love how people like you take “It’s about damned time we have a woman (or black, circa 2008) president after centuries of not treating them equally” and somehow interpret that as “We’re trying to keep the white male down”.

          • @[email protected]
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            The right is not losing their minds over Kamala, most of them probably hope she wins the primary because she is a weak candidate. You guys are creating this who race thing out of a couple random crazy people on the internet.

          • @[email protected]
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            The right is a big varying group and some are good and some are bad. I think their policy is to treat everyone the same, whereas the lefts policy is to pretend to treat minority groups better.

        • @Crampon
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          The American mind cant comprehend that sentence.

            • catsarebadpeople
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              Here it is folks. The left is the only group that has an issue with treating everyone the same. That means that the right has no issues on that front according to this lemmy.ml user.

              I would suggest blocking them completely as I have done. Their misdirection was fairly well done until the comment above so it’s best not to let them trap you in the future.

              • @[email protected]
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                Then why have you not blocked me? If I said I was a black woman would it be racist and sexist to block me?