Harris in San Francisco: "Leave Joe Biden Alone."

[RandySF]

Harris was asked about the impeachment inquiry launched by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this week, based on President Trump's conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. On that call, Trump repeatedly urged Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter, who was on the board of a Ukrainian oil company when Biden was serving as President Obama's vice president.

Asked if she were elected president would she allow the son or daughter of her vice president to serve on the board of a foreign oil company, Harris said "probably not" but then launched into an attack on Trump's focus on Biden, which she called "a distraction."

"As far as I'm concerned, leave Joe Biden alone," Harris said. "Just leave him alone on this issue of what this president has done that has been about corrupting America's democracy, being in cahoots with a foreign leader to yet again try and manipulate the election of the president of the United States."

"I'm not going to be distracted by what this president is trying to play which is a game because he knows that he is actually, probably looking at an indictment. And is trying to then distract from the realities of his behaviors that have been in violation of our moral our ethical and probably our legal rules and mores."

Sen. Harris' plea to "leave Biden alone" is somewhat ironic, given that it was her attack on Biden's position on school busing in the 1970s that gave her campaign a rush of publicity and cash in the first debate back in June. But that was then.

With a Monday night deadline approaching for the end of the third quarter fundraising period, Harris left the event for what was described by campaign staff as "small donor" event. Mirroring her position in the polls, Harris has struggled to keep pace with the fundraising demands of a national campaign.



https://www.kqed.org/news/11777254/harris-in-san-francisco-leave-joe-biden-alone

[Cha]

1. Thank you, Kamala!

[mcar]

2. "I'm not going to be distracted"

Well said!

[BlueMississippi]

3. Thank you Sen. Harris nt

[peggysue2]

4. Yes, keep the focus on Trump

Where it belongs. Everything else is distraction and gaslighting from the most unfit, illegitimate Squatter in the White House. Keep pushing the facts of Trump's corrupt administration, his penchant for lies and fraud because that's what he and his supporters are eager to have the public doubt.

There is no defense of the indefensible. Even his most ardent sycophants know this despite all the spinning.

Focus!

for Kamala Harris. She should be joined by every candidate to drill this message home.

[Andy823]

5. K&R nt

[Politicub]

6. K&R for unity!

[NastyRiffraff]

7. That was classy

Thank you, Kamala Harris.

It's clear that she was a prosecutor, and a good one. She doesn't let them define the issue; she grabs it right back.