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[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not trying to be out her campaigning for her...

But her baggage is being a prosecutor. And she be running against a guy with 34 felonies.

She uniquely excels at debating idiots. She can be incredibly dismissive and then pivot quickly back to the issue.

15 minutes into a debate/exchange and trump would be screaming nonsense giving himself a heart attack and Kamala would be calmly lying to us about how progressive she is.

And even though we all know she's lying, we knew Joe was lying in 2020 too. We still voted for him.

We voted for Hillary in 2016.

We voted for Obama in 2012 after we knew what he was really like.

We won't go that far with Joe. But Kamala has benefit of the doubt. And that's enough to get votes when trump is on the ballot

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The baggage goes a little beyond "being a prosecutor":

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article233375207.html

Getting caught manipulating evidence is exactly the sort of thing that cost her the primary bid and should have cost her the VP job.

But when it comes to electability, literally nobody likes her. Even her own staff hates her. She's a non-starter as a viable candidate. She's Hillary but less likeable.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

Getting caught manipulating evidence .that's not what the link says happened...