New Survey Finds Kamala Harris Has Big Support For A Presidential Run From Top Democratic WoC

[PunkinPi]

A national survey of women of color political organizers, activists, donors, and party leaders shows Sen. Kamala Harris as an overwhelming early favorite of the group ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
The survey results, provided to BuzzFeed News by She the People, a new network advocating for women of color in politics, show a majority of respondents — 71.1% — includes Harris in their top three choices for president, if she decides to run.

The second most popular candidate was Rep. Beto O’Rourke, whose closer-than-expected Senate race against Ted Cruz in Texas this year has propelled him into the national spotlight. O’Rourke was a top three choice for 38.3% of respondents, followed by Joe Biden for 25%, Sen. Cory Booker for 24.2%, Sen. Elizabeth Warren for 22.3%, Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams for 15.2%, and Sen. Bernie Sanders for 12.1%.

Women of color are a key voting demographic for the Democratic Party in elections across the country, and consistently turn out to vote at high rates. In Southern primaries, including early states like South Carolina, black women compose a large portion of the electorate and helped secure the nomination for Hillary Clinton over Sanders in 2016.

“Women of color, as a voting bloc, are the backbone of the Democratic Party and we’re really leading the way with these issues, and we’ve shown that we can get behind candidates of different genders and different races and really affect an election,” Allison said. “But now we’re demanding way more from the candidates. They need to speak directly to us, and anything short just isn’t going to cut it.”

More here --> https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryancbrooks/kamala-harris-2020-president-black-women-survey

[bigtree]

1. k&r

[Squinch]

2. "Top Democratic WOC" backbone of party.

[MrsCoffee]

3. K&R

[mcar]

4. K&R

[PhrankT]

5. After watching her question candidates like Kavanaugh, I want her for my President

Precise & whip smart.

Harris is nobody's fool

[dameatball]

12. I want to see how it all shakes out, but she is impressive indeed.

[ismnotwasm]

6. K&R

[byronius]

7. Middle-aged white guys love her too.

Sharp, sharp, sharp. My instinct says she's It.

[ashling]

21. MAWG for Harris

Kamala/Beto

[Gothmog]

8. I am not a WOC but I also like Senator Harris

[Tikki]

10. Also, prob not considered a POC, but a woman..I support Kamala Harris...

...for whatever her role in helping all of us turns out to be.

Tikki

[sheshe2]

9. K&R

[Dopers_Greed]

11. Kamala/Beto 2020!

[LiberalLovinLug]

15. that's the winning ticket right there!

[shanti]

50. I can dig it

They are both charismatic.

[ZeroSomeBrains]

13. Senator Harris is not at the top of my list

But she is high on said list. She deserves strong consideration and good luck to her if she does run.

[akraven]

14. I think she's awesome. n/t

[CTyankee]

16. I have been an early supporter of Kamala. I like her a lot.

She and Beto would make a good team. So would she and Chris Murphy, my CT senator (I like the west coast/east coast vibe). But Beto might just be better. He brings the youth vibe and I like that.

[LakeArenal]

17. She railroaded Franken with the others.

[pnwmom]

23. Most Democratic women did. Thirteen out of seventeen.

It's not a disqualifier.

https://www.vox.com/2017/12/7/16742442/female-senators-al-franken-resigns

About half of the 21 women in the Senate posted messages on social media urging Franken to resign (13 were Democrats, one was a Republican).

[LakeArenal]

32. Not to you. Others yes.

[pnwmom]

38. The fact that you would rule out support for 13/17 woman Senators

on this basis says more about you than about them.

[LakeArenal]

41. You know nothing. As if any decisions are are that simple.

You also know nothing of my character based one opinion on a blog.

[pnwmom]

49. I said that it wasn't a disqualifier, and you said it was.

Later, you said this:

Listen if Harris and the others can’t take my criticism of what I feel is a complete capitulation to the Republican smear campaign, then she’s not a very strong candidate. So either way, she’s not my choice. Ever.

So you made it very simple.

[Celerity]

46. I looked up, a couple of days ago, every Democratic Senator on the Franken

issue. I did this because it is just poison here. I know of no other place on the web that I visit where I see this obsessed over. Certainly not in my real life.

What I found was that every single Democratic Senator except for five told him to resign in public or private. Klobuchar in private, for example.

3 of those do not even count as they were on the Ethics Committee snd thus couldnt say anything, even in private (Coons, Schatz, Shaheen). I am sure they would have joined with the rest and called for him to step down.

Bob Menendez was still in a federal corruption fight, and chose to not say anything. Again, I am sure he would have joined all the rest.

That leaves one. The ONLY one who actually ended up supporting Al and telling him to not resign was Joe Manchin.

All the rest told him to go or 4 said nothing due to legalities.

44 out of 49 said he should go, and pretty much 48 out of 49 Democratic Senators gave him no support.

Also, Gillibrand was far from the gangleader, as she is painted as. Multiple women Senators met for weeks, planning what to do. Schumer was aware, and did nothing to stop them.

Gillibrand gets shit on so hard because here tweet/statement was 15 minutes or so before anyone else's.

Major revisionism has made this whole thing crazy and so so divisive. It hurts us badly, IMHO.

Good article here


Female Democratic senators coordinated a wave of calls for resignation


https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/06/politics/senators-al-franken-resignation/index.html

Nearly three weeks after sexual harassment allegations first emerged against Sen. Al Franken, a wave of Democratic senators — in coordination and following a flurry of text messages and phone calls — called for his resignation in rapid succession Wednesday morning.

Starting around 11:30 a.m. ET, the senators posted statements in a coordinated effort, one after the other, on social media, saying the Minnesota Democrat should step down.

Some comments were elaborate, lengthy and loaded with a moral message. Others, like that of Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, were straight to the point.


"Al Franken should resign," she simply tweeted.

Within the next 90 minutes, 16 Democrats -- 10 of them women -- and one Republican senator -- Susan Collins of Maine -- had publicly urged their colleague to vacate his seat.

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[pnwmom]

48. Thank you, Celerity, for going to the effort to research this. It won't stop the haters,

but this is very useful information for the rest of us.

[oberliner]

52. I've tried to make this point repeatedely

But it seems to fall on mostly deaf ears.

[JI7]

26. so did bernie sanders

[LakeArenal]

33. I'm not voting for him either.

[Cha]

37. Yes, BS was right there. Is that going to stop

his fans?

[Bryan]

31. We have bigger fish to fry than Al "Eight accusers and counting" Franken

Every day he held onto his seat was a day he was pulling focus from the midterms. Kneecapping him was the smart call. 2020 will be about the survival of the republic; Sen. Wandering Hands (D-MN) can bugger off and write his memoirs.

[LakeArenal]

34. Yea fry all those "little" fish on you way to the top

You fry your fish. I’ll fry mine.

[LakeArenal]

35. Bugger off? Great discussion point.

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Wandering hands? Geez. Make it more than it is. Besides how do you know? He has no ethics investigation. Nothing was proven.

Now you’ll pull out the hackneyed “ He resigned.

No, he requested an ethics investigation that those senators would not respect.
And even then he said his memory of the events were not the same.

Listen if Harris and the others can’t take my criticism of what I feel is a complete capitulation to the Republican smear campaign, then she’s not a very strong candidate. So either way, she’s not my choice. Ever.
Edited to add: Not my choice. I will vote for the Dem nominee.

[pnwmom]

39. He did us all a great favor when he resigned and let us get back

to fighting for the midterms.

He was caring enough to realize it wasn't all about him.

[LakeArenal]

42. Oh you in the Franken loop?

[pnwmom]

43. Is that an English language sentence? I don't see a verb,

though the punctuation indicates that it's a question.

[LakeArenal]

44. Trivial.

[all american girl]

55. Franked did this to himself, and yet, you blame women for his bad behavior.

He groped women, 8 came forward. That's on him. I'm tired of the misogyny on the left. Franked could have stopped this along time ago, instead he lets women get blamed for what he did. This needs to stop. You want to blame someone for Franken being "railroaded," blame him. He chose to grope women. He chose to leave. He chose to not let the investigation to go forward. HE CHOSE. It is not any woman's fault for what Franken CHOSE. Now stop blaming women, stop the MISOGYNY.

[Adrahil]

18. WE need ranked choice voting for primaries. NT

[MariePinchon]

19. She has my support as well.

[octoberlib]

20. I love her!

[djacq]

22. Very Early Supporter; Kamala is well qualified.

WoC know what they’re talking about.

Happy to be married to one.

[H2O Man]

24. Recommended.

She has a lot of support among a variety of people. I think she would be outstanding, both as our candidate, and as president. And I'd love to see her debate Trump. She would kick his ass.

[Kurt V.]

25. I'm in.

[Wellstone ruled]

27. By this time next year,

the real Candidate will be front and center. The shake out is starting.

[GulfCoast66]

28. In my state, Florida, WOC are the base of our party.

As they are in most southern states. I hope she makes the ticket somewhere.

Personally I think Brown/Harris would be unbeatable and switch the order you put them. It will not matter.

This southern white guy would give her my full support.

[sagesnow]

29. I'd love to see her run. n/t

[Me.]

30. I'd Support Her For Sure

[R B Garr]

36. She is formidable!

Very impressive leader.

[Adrahil]

40. I dig her...

She and Beto are my top prospects ATM.

[Starry Messenger]

45. CA is a super tuesday state for 2020 now too...

Just putting that out there

[TeamPooka]

47. I'm a 54 yr old white male and Kamala is my #1 pick for 2020

[Dorian Gray]

51. I'm in for Kamala

Love her! (she has support from this woman of Irish American heritage!)

[oberliner]

53. Harris / Abrams would be awesome

[aeromanKC]

54. Dems have DEEP bench for 2020!!

Harris, Biden, Beto, Klochabar, Abrams all would be outstanding for the top of the ticket!! And a much deeper bench for for VP including all those mentioned as well as Gillim, Castro, Hickenlopper, Landrieu, Brown, Feingold, Newsom et al.... (But most likely ticket will be 2 of the first ones mentioned)

Dems are DEEP for 2020!!

[dembotoz]

56. No