If Kamala Harris is capable of becoming President at some point in the next four years, then why is she not the Presidential nominee, rather than some shuffling, senile 77-year-old who first ran for President more than 30 years ago?
She is a bad pick, with a history of targeting nonviolent offenders and poor minorities, and of using prison labour for profit. Joe Biden is trying to play both sides of the street here. Or someone is, anyway.
Softness on crime isn’t popular with voters. The Democrats have started to learn that again, or they’d better do. Biden says he wants to increase funding for the police.
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Jeremy Corbyn said that.
DeleteWhich voters?
Corbyn was as soft on crime as the rest of his party. He opposed tougher sentences and stop and search. Which voters? The poor, who are more likely to be victims of crime then any others.
ReplyDeleteHence support for the death penalty is highest among that group though high among all.
Polled by YouGov before the last election, capital punishment turns out to still be as popular here as in the US
93% of black men killed in the US each year are killed by other black men, so softness on crime isn’t popular among that demographic either.
ReplyDeleteNo wonder the Democrats have chosen two candidates with hawkish records on it.
We shall see her popularity with black voters. She has not especially manifested it in the past.
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