We have a binary choice to make in November. We can choose socialism or we can choose Donald Trump.
And yes, it really is that simple.
When Biden told us we were last and the immigrants were first? And spent all our money on the immigrants and not us. Didn’t that tell voters where we stood and now some of you people will vote for Harris? What is wrong with you people?
Wonder Land: Democratic Senate candidates, including Bob Casey, Tammy Baldwin, Jon Tester, Elissa Slotkin and Sherrod Brown are drifting into Trumpian MAGA land. Photo: Composite: Mark Kelly
In 2008 Barack Obama campaigned toward the center and won 60% of the “moderate” vote. Mr. Obama left the moderates at the altar and governed from the left. Joe Biden ran his 2020 presidential campaign toward the center, explicitly away from Sen. Bernie Sanders’s progressive politics. Mr. Biden governed further left than the Obama presidency.
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In my opinion, that is why Kamala Harris won’t divulge what policies she would put on us. I did not vote for her because I don’t trust her to follow the Constitution because Obama lied and Biden lied and look at our country now?
Kamala hates anything about the people/Constitution/Bill of Rights just like Obama/Biden.
Canada owes America an apology – for Kamala Harris
Michael Taube
Fri, October 18, 2024 at 10:46 AM CDT
The vice president recalled her time in Canada fondly in a conversation with Justin Trudeau – DAVE CHAN/AFP
When Vice President Kamala Harris replaced President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket, many assumed her Left-wing ideology would immediately take centre stage. Lo and behold, that’s what happened.
Harris is a progressive’s progressive. She’s pro-affirmative action and supports gun control. She is weak on illegal immigration, has defended sanctuary cities, and was one of ten senators who opposed the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement in part because it didn’t tackle climate change.
It’s tempting to blame Harris’s politics on her upbringing. Her parents met at University of California’s Berkeley campus in the 1960s, at the time a hotbed of radical activism. Her father, Donald J Harris, a retired Stanford University economics professor, was described by The Economist as a “combative Marxist economist” whose writings are “sprinkled with obscurantist theorising.”
Yet, there’s another part to this story. My country, Canada, may have to apologise for its unfortunate contribution to Harris’s progressive thinking.
Harris lived in Montreal, Quebec between 1976 and 1982 while she was a teenager. Her late mother, Shyamala, took a research position at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital and taught at McGill University. Harris attended FACE (Fine Arts Core Elementary) School before graduating from Westmount High School. She also went to Vanier College.
“The thought of moving away from sunny California in February, in the middle of the school year, to a French-speaking foreign city covered in 12 feet of snow was distressing, to say the least,” Harris wrote in her memoir, The Truths We Hold. She braved the cold and survived in the land of igloos, back bacon and ice hockey. It may have helped transform her way of thinking, too.
Anu Chopra Sharma, a former classmate of Harris, recalled in an August 12, 2020 CTV News interview that her daughter had asked her, “How Canadian is she?” Sharma replied, “There’s no way I could have told you that she was American.” Sharma described Harris as “very liberal-minded, and that was one of the things that I liked about her … I personally think universal health care is going to be her baby … She got to see the other side of the coin, growing up.”
Nicholas Boston, who also attended Harris’ school, wrote in the Independent that she “found her voice early”. Here’s an example. A May 8, 2019 piece in the San Jose Mercury News noted that Harris and her younger sister, Maya, successfully organised a demonstration at their apartment building. They protested a policy that banned young children from playing (association) football on the building’s front lawn.
The demonstration “had nothing to do with language or race,” according to Boston. Fair enough. What it did show was that Harris had an inclination to be a political disruptor early. The football battle of her youth turned into a struggle for illegal immigrants and extreme environmental policies in adulthood.
Harris rarely discusses her years in Canada. She “recalled fondly” her time in the country during a 2021 phone call with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Yet, she’s seemingly kept in touch with an aunt and uncle who live here.
Her aunt, Chinni Subash, told CBC News on January 17, 2021 that, while politics wasn’t top of mind during conversations with her young niece, this gradually changed. “As Kamala got more involved in politics, she showed a keen interest in understanding how things worked for us,” Subash said. “Like our health care system … how Canada was managing the Syrian refugee crisis and stuff like that. She was very interested in understanding how things were done here.”
Well, then. If Harris is elected president and incorporates elements of Trudeau’s policies into her own Left-wing agenda, more apologies may be in order.
Kamala stated she grew up in a MIDDLE class household?
From 1975-1976, when Harris was 12, professors at several universities, including McGill, made an average of $28,751 per year, according to a study of professor salaries at 61 schools from 1975-67. This was over double the median household income at the time, which was $11,800.
The Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, attends a campaign event at Divine Faith Ministries International on Oct. 20 in Jonesboro, Georgia. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)
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Vice President Kamala Harris was admitted to law school through University of California-San Francisco’s Legal Education Opportunity Program for students with “educational disadvantage, economic hardship, or disability,” according to the law school’s magazine.
“LEOP offers admission to approximately 50 high-achieving students each year—up to 20 percent of the class—who have experienced major life hurdles, such as educational disadvantage, economic hardship, or disability,” the article says. “The majority are students of color.”
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“Besides traditional admissions criteria, such as grades and LSAT scores,” the article continues, “the program also considers students’ overall potential and the obstacles they’ve overcome.”
The Legal Education Opportunity Program provides extra help to its law students, “offering a weeklong orientation, academic counseling, practice exams, and help preparing for the bar exam and job interviews, among other resources and services.”
The Harris campaign did not respond to The Daily Signal’s question about which “major life hurdles” qualified the vice president for the Legal Education Opportunity Program.
After moving to the U.S. from India, Harris’ mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and became a renowned researcher and professor.
Shyamala worked at the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin, spent time in France and Italy, and received tenure at McGill University in Montreal. The would-be vice president lived in Canada with her mother and sister from age 12 until high school graduation.
From 1975-1976, when Harris was 12, professors at several universities, including McGill, made an average of $28,751 per year, according to a study of professor salaries at 61 schools from 1975-67. This was over double the median household income at the time, which was $11,800.
Harris’ father, Donald Harris, also held a P.h.D from Berkeley. He became a tenured professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, then returned to California in 1972 to become a professor of economics at Stanford University. Harris’ parents divorced in 1972.
The New Yorker described Donald Harris as “a renowned Marxist economist from Jamaica who taught at Stanford University for decades.”
The UCSF Law School did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment about what qualified Harris for the program.
Harris has faced multiple accusations of plagiarism in the past week, as investigative journalists uncovered passages in her books and her written testimony that copy long passages elsewhere verbatim.
Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Oct. 17. (Photo: Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP/Getty Images)
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While serving in the U.S. Senate, Kamala Harris celebrated the Democrat primary victory of Philadelphia progressive prosecutor Larry Krasner—and the controversial policies he would later champion as the city’s district attorney.
“As I said yesterday, progressive prosecutors are key to criminal justice reforms like rolling back mass incarceration and ending cash bail,” Harris wrote on social media, May 17, 2017.
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Progressive prosecutors, also referred to as rogue prosecutors, are those who, in the name of social justice, “have usurped the legislative power by refusing to prosecute large categories of crimes,” according to Zack Smith and Charles Stimson, authors of “Rogue Prosecutors: How Radical Soros Lawyers Are Destroying America’s Communities.”
Before being elected as Philadelphia’s district attorney, Krasner worked as a criminal defense and civil rights attorney. He “sued the Philadelphia Police Department dozens of times over the decades, ran to be Philadelphia’s district attorney and received almost $1.45 million in campaign spending from George Soros in the process,” Smith and Stimson previously reported for The Daily Signal.
On his website, Krasner touts that under his watch, “the office broke its information-sharing contract with [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement], has “stopped prosecuting nearly all simple drug possession cases,” and “Other drug possession cases are diverted toward treatment.”
Harris served as a prosecutor in California in the 1990s and was later elected district attorney of San Francisco in 2003. In 2010, she was elected attorney general of California and won reelection in 2014. While serving in these roles, Harris implemented policies championed by the progressive prosecutor movement.
In 2004, black gang member David Hill shot and killed San Francisco police officer Isaac Espinoza. Harris, who was the district attorney of San Francisco at the time, did not pursue the death penalty.
In 2012, while serving as attorney general, Harris issued a bulletin to law enforcement in California regarding an Immigration and Customs Enforcement program called Secure Communities that enables ICE to detain and deport criminal illegal aliens. In the bulletin, Harris told law enforcement that they were not required to fulfill individual ICE immigration detainers but could instead “make their own decisions” about detainer requests.
Despite her past embrace of policies progressive prosecutors have been known to advocate for, Harris has pegged herself as a tough on crime criminal prosecutor on the campaign trail.
Within days of launching her campaign, Harris used her record as a prosecutor in an effort to contrast herself with former President Donald Trump.
“I took on perpetrators of all kinds: predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain,” she said at a campaign event in Wisconsin in July. “So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type.”
During her debate with Trump on Sept. 10, Harris said she was “the only person” on stage to have “prosecuted transnational criminal organizations for the trafficking of guns, drugs, and human beings.”
Harris, who wrote the book “Smart on Crime” in 2009, has previously received criticism for her support of “soft on crime” policies, such as her pledge to “never charge the death penalty” during her 2004 inauguration speech to the office of San Francisco’s district attorney.
During her 2020 campaign for president, Harris issued a memo in which she detailed her support for ending mass incarceration.
Harris advocated for “significant federal investments in policies that would end mass incarceration and especially into evidence-based, non-carceral social supports and programs at the state and local level to improve public safety and reduce violence,” she said.
In the same 2020 campaign memo, Harris called for the end of cash bail.
“Our bail system is unjust and broken,” Harris said, adding, “450,000 Americans sit in jail today awaiting trial because they cannot afford to pay bail. Excessive cash bail disproportionately harms people from low-income communities and communities of color,” she wrote.
Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment, but the campaign’s previous statements indicate Harris still backs ending cash bail.
“On the issue of cash bail, she believes that we need a system where public safety, not wealth, determines who should stay behind bars following an arrest,” James Singer, a spokesperson for the Harris campaign, told Fox News Digital in August. “Anyone who is a danger to society should be detained regardless of how wealthy they are.”
