Democrats air a video package focused on framing Harris as a hard-nosed prosecutor. The emphasis is on the people she put away for violent crimes, and the increase in felony conviction rates in her tenure. That is precisely the message Harris’s opponents in the Democratic party successfully deployed in the effort to undermine her support ahead of the 2020 primary.
Tulsi Gabbard delivered the final blow, and she did so by emphasizing marijuana convictions. But make no mistake: progressive voters were primed to oppose her based on attacks on her record as a prosecutor at a time when the conventional wisdom on the activist left maintained that criminals, violent and nonviolent alike, were being overcharged and mistreated by the criminal justice system.
Ana Navarro says we need a president who can give the country a great big hug. I figure if we got through World War II without one, maybe we don’t.
The crowd at the DNC had no time for Ken Chenault’s vision of Kamala as capitalist leader. Completely flat audience reaction, more than a bit awkwardly so.
Ken Chenault is painting a (literally unbelievable) portrait of Harris as an arch-free marketeer who favors job creation, wealth generation, and economic growth. You can feel the crowd at the DNC slipping away from him.
Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker combines the appearance of a Batman villain with the bankroll of Bruce Wayne. “Take it from an actual billionaire, the only thing Donald Trump is rich in is stupidity,” Pritzker bellowed in his convention remarks. It’s easier to win a governor’s race in Illinois when you’re a Democrat. It’s even easier when you have a net worth of $3.5 billion and spend $350 million on your two races combined.
Ironically, just a few minutes earlier, Bernie Sanders had said, “at the top of that to-do list is the need to get big money out of our political process. Billionaires in both parties should not be able to buy elections – including primary elections.”
Note that the assembled Democratic delegates applauded both lines, and saw no contradiction between Pritzker boasting about being “an actual billionaire” and Sanders insisting billionaires shouldn’t be able to buy elections.
Amazing to think Pritzker was on the veep short list.
@jberger and now we welcome the AMEX boss. You can’t make this up.
Amazing. Just minutes after Bernie Sanders did his shtick decrying “billionayes,” J. B. Pritzker is up on stage using that status to take Trump down a peg: “Take it from an actual billionaire, Trump is rich in only one thing — stupidity.”
“It’s not woke that limits economic growth; it’s weird.” – J.B. Pritzker, being weird.
J.B. Pritzker repeats the blatant lie that Trump recommended folks “inject bleach,” which Democrats seem to have fully internalized. On a related note, the theme of Pritzker’s speech is “stupidity.”