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House Republican leaders told lawmakers to focus on criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris’ record without reference to her race and gender, following caustic remarks from some Republicans attacking her on the basis of identity.
During a closed-door meeting Tuesday morning, chair of the House GOP campaign arm Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) and others issued the warning after a series of comments by their members that focused on Harris’ race as well as claims she is a “DEI” pick, according to two people in the room.
In the 48 hours since President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race, Republican leaders have tried to train their criticism of the presumptive Democratic nominee on her handling of the border and her plan to skip Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress.
But several Republicans immediately took the criticism in a different direction. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said Monday that Harris was a “DEI vice president” and Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) over the weekend questioned if Democrats are sticking by her “because of her ethnic background.” If nominated, Harris would be the first Black and South Asian woman to be a major party nominee.
so nerds how many days until a chud politician calls Kamala the n-word live?
Are you trying to give the Dems credit for moving to the right on those issues? I hope not because by all measures it was a losing strategy.
Make no mistake Biden is a corpse but he is also a ghoul with a neoliberal admin that absolutely refuses to tackle material issues and spent 4 years gaslighting the population as the country headed into the economic abyss.
Even Biden would not be in this bad shape if the dems actualy tried to secure the liberal/progressive vote by actualy trying to get even bare basic wins on progressive issues.
I don't believe this is a hot take to say Biden would be the favorite if the Dems actualy tried to govern with the actual intent on pushing even remotely left policies and winning.
The reason the GOP can't easily attack Kamala is because remember that traditional conservatism is long dead. The Bush era GOP concerned with budget and shit? They moved away from that because nobody actualy gives a shit about the government deficit or military budget. The 2008 crisis already jokerfied millenials back then with all the government bailouts if you remember. Why care about budget when the elite gets free money whenever they want?
Too big to fail was a fairly important cultural/political point of that era.
Now Trump is a once in a lifetime figure due to his charisma but he also only exaggerated this trend. The GOP doesn't have a political platform except racism since the Bush era, its old news.
Probably true I agree. The problem is the dems don't want this to happen, hence the current climate. The dems are about to lose an election they should win because they must walk the line between deliberately gaslightling liberals and not doing it so much that the GOP actualy dies and the dems end up being blamed for everything and having to actualy govern.
A fundamental part of Dem strategy is blaming Republicans for everything and they can't do that if the GOP dies. Hence there will always be this status quo where Dems only realy lose due to their own incompetence.