Democrats worry Kamala Harris won't cut
it as the future of the party (including
Sen. Warren)
Posted By: Dreadnought, 1/31/2023 12:16:42 AM
There aren’t many things that Democrats and Republicans agree about these days but one of the few on which there seems to be general accord is that Kamala Harris is not a credible presidential candidate. Today the Washington Post published a story for which they spoke to more than a dozen Democrats who are worried about VP Harris’ role in the party’s future. The piece opens with an on-the-record comment from former Cobb County Democratic leader Jacquelyn Bettadapur: Many Democrats, Bettadapur said, “don’t know enough about what she’s doing” — and, she added, “it doesn’t help that she’s not [that] adept as a communicator.” Such concerns about Harris’s political strength were repeated
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'I think it's trash' 6 replies
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