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In reply to the discussion: What's the problem with Kamala Harris? [View all]DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)afraid of the impending character assassination that past candidates have faced from the ruthless, guerrilla warfare of the Republicans....Gore, Kerry, Hillary, etc........
I personally feel that Hillary would have been the perfect President, far more experienced and knowledgeable than ANY Republican Or other Dem candidate. Even more qualified than anyone in past history....... But ever since Bill, the Republicans have demonized her with an un-limited, un-fathomable amount of lies, defamation, false accusations, etc etc etc that it clouded the independents and even a segment of the Dems.......The Repubs knew early on that she was a force to be reckoned in the future and started in to destroy her, the minute Bill got elected.
Add in the covert work of Putin due to him knowing his worst nightmare would be Hillary, and the Comey? email bullshit as their "October Surprise" and she was doomed.........
My personal thinking is that we need to go with Biden, and a really strong white male candidate as his VP running mate.
We are going for broke folks, and we need the team that is most ELECTABLE, ALL the other political BS aside........
My personal opinion is that several other Dems in the 2016-2020 election didn't help.....ie Bernie? and AOC? and others? kept going long after they should have thrown their total support behind Hillary and Biden. It is not as if they didn't have something to say, and that those things weren't important, but it detracted from us getting behind a single electable candidate.....