The thought was: “Kamala Harris was so unpopular in the primaries, so why would she be popular now?”
But maybe that’s the wrong thought?
The campaign of Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden has raised $48 million in the 48 hours since he named U.S. Senator Kamala Harris the Democratic vice presidential nominee, a campaign spokesman told Reuters late on Thursday.
Biden, a former vice president himself, on Tuesday picked Harris as his choice for VP, making her the first Black woman on a major-party U.S. presidential ticket.
With social unrest over racial injustice rocking the country for months since the death in custody of an African-American man, George Floyd – after a police officer knelt on his neck for about nine minutes – Biden was under pressure to select a Black woman as his running mate.
Harris, a 55-year-old senator from California who made her own run for the White House, is also the first Asian-American on a major presidential ticket. Her parents were immigrants, her mother from India and her father from Jamaica.
She became only the second Black female U.S. senator in history when elected in 2016 and will be relied on to help mobilize African-Americans, the Democratic Party’s most loyal constituency.
Four years ago, the first dip in Black voter turnout in 20 years contributed to Democrat Hillary Clinton’s upset loss to Donald Trump in the presidential election.
Harris, a former prosecutor and state attorney general in California, is known for her sometimes aggressive questioning style in the Senate.
It’s likely with any candidate you’re going to get a boost in donations after you announce the VP.
Who knows if $48 million in 48 hours is good or bad. It seems like it’s probably good.
The hope here is that Kamala will strike fear into a lot of people who would otherwise think about voting for Joe Biden. Remember, this is a two party democracy, so the only people who this election is about convincing is the 15% of the population that is so confused about what is going on in the world that they do not have a hard decision of siding with one candidate or the other off the bat.
All of the energy is on this confused and indecisive bit of the population that knows nothing. It makes sense that they would be scared of this angry colored woman who appears to have these connections to far-eastern demon gods.