Willie Brown spooge bag Kamala Harris drops out of presidential race

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-12-03/kamala-harris-drop-out

Kamala Harris, the California freshman senator, suspended her presidential
run Tuesday, marking a lackluster end to an initially soaring presidential
bid premised on her personal biography and prosecutorial acumen.
Ultimately, her run foundered with a muddled purpose, campaign infighting
and an inability to sustain support from vital Democratic voting blocs,
particularly African Americans.

In an email to supporters, Harris blamed her campaign’s end on a lack of
money.

“I’m not a billionaire. I can’t fund my own campaign. And as the campaign
has gone on, it’s become harder and harder to raise the money we need to
compete,” she wrote. “In good faith, I can’t tell you, my supporters and
volunteers, that I have a path forward if I don’t believe I do. So, to you
my supporters, it is with deep regret — but also with deep gratitude —
that I am suspending my campaign today.”

Harris, 55, entered the race as a rising star, representing the more
youthful and diverse voters that have become the base of the Democratic
Party. Her high-profile interrogations of Trump administration officials
in Senate hearings rocketed her to national acclaim and her polished
campaign launch established her in the top tier of a crowded Democratic
field.

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But Harris struggled to articulate a distinct reason for her candidacy,
and the campaign attempted to regroup midway through the year for a last-
ditch effort to win over Iowa, a state she had initially placed little
emphasis on in her primary strategy.

Fellow Democratic contenders, including some of Harris’ most spirited
sparring partners, reacted to the news with praise.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, whom Harris laced into in the first
Democratic debate in June over his past position on school busing, lauded
her as “a first-rate intellect, a first-rate candidate and a real
competitor.”

“I have mixed emotions about it, because she is really a solid, solid
person and loaded with talent,” he told reporters during a campaign stop
in Iowa.

South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, whose success with big-dollar
donors ate into Harris’ fundraising base, wrote on Twitter that Harris
“has spent her career advocating for the voiceless and the vulnerable. I
am grateful for her leadership and the courage she brings to the Senate
and the national debate. I know she will continue to fight fearlessly on
behalf of the American people — and our democracy.”

Born in Oakland and raised mainly in Berkeley, Harris is the daughter of
immigrants: Shyamala Gopalan, who was a breast cancer researcher from
India, and Donald Harris, a Jamaican economist who taught at Stanford
University.

Her biracial background was initially seen as a major asset at a time when
African Americans, Latinos and Asians are important blocs in the
Democratic coalition. But Harris’ uneven performance in the campaign,
especially her fumbling on healthcare, drove her poll ratings down and she
never recovered.

An early supporter of Medicare for All, a touchstone for progressive
candidates, Harris said in January that she wanted to eliminate private
health insurance, but then quickly backed away from that position, leaving
many voters unclear on where she stood. When she released her full
healthcare agenda months later, her failure to explain it clearly on a
debate stage raised still more doubts about her position on a top issue
for many Democrats.

Harris has never lost an election. A career prosecutor, she was elected
San Francisco district attorney in 2003, then state attorney general in
2010. She won her U.S. Senate seat six years later and quickly made a name
for herself as a sharp interrogator of Trump administration appointees,
including former Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions.

According to a new poll, a majority of California Democrats wanted Harris
to drop out of the race. The poll, conducted by the Berkeley Institute of
Governmental Studies for The Times, showed that by 61% to 24% likely
Democratic primary voters in California thought Harris should quit the
race.

Harris’ support in the state had steadily slipped, and she was the first
choice of only 7% of the state’s Democratic primary voters, according to
the poll, which was conducted Nov. 21-27. Judging by the second choices of
her supporters, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren
would be the likely main beneficiaries of her withdrawal, at least in
California, which holds its primary on March 3.

In recent months, her campaign was rocked by reports of internal dissent
and dwindling funds. Still, the decision to drop out was abrupt. Just one
day earlier, her campaign announced plans for California Gov. Gavin
Newsom, a longtime political ally, to stump for her in Iowa later in
December. And a pro-Harris super PAC planned to spend at least $1 million
to run television commercials in Iowa trumpeting her as the Democrat most
feared by President Trump. The group canceled the ad buy Tuesday morning.



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