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Hillary Supporters SMEAR Sanders Supporters Skeptical Of Kamala Harris As "Racist, Sexist" -- LIES!!
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3:07Now PlayingHillary Supporters SMEAR Sanders Supporters Skeptical Of Kamala Harris As "Racist, Sexist" -- LIES!!
Democratic Party Rift: Sanders’ Supporters Do Not Like ‘Rising Star’ Harris. Progressive Democrats have not embraced rising star Sen. Kamala Harris (D, Calif.), highlighting a rift within the Democratic Party that evidently did not end with the 2016 Democratic presidential primary.
Speculation has recently surrounded Harris regarding a potential 2020 presidential run. Democratic donors are starting to coalesce around her as their preferred candidate, according to a report from Mic.
Certain groups that supported Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) for president against eventual Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton are not jumping on board, however. Yashar Ali, a political commentator who worked for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, tweeted Wednesday that it was "astounding how quickly the Bernie Sanders crew has mobilized against Kamala Harris." Harris' so-called "Bernieland" problem stems from alleged ties to Wall Street and insufficient commitment to populist economics, according to Mic.
Nomiki Konst, a Sanders supporter who serves on the Democratic National Committee's Unity Commission, told potential Harris supporters that they should "follow the money."
"The Democrats will not win until they address income inequality, no matter how they dress up their next candidate," Konst said. "If that candidate is in bed with Wall Street, you may as well lay a tombstone out for the Democratic Party now. Voters are smart; they can follow the money." In a recent New York Times profile of Harris, RoseAnn DeMoro, a high profile Sanders supporter and executive director of National Nurses United, dismissed Harris' prospects as a progressive 2020 contender.
"She's one of the people the Democratic party is putting up," DeMoro told the Times. "In terms of where the progressives live, I don't think there's any ‘there' there."
Supporters of Harris argue that the criticism from the "Sanders crew" is misguided. Essence contributor Michael Arceneaux responded directly to DeMoro's criticism of Harris.
"When it comes to where progressives live, uh, which ones are she referring to? The white ones?" Arceneaux wrote. "OK, but they don't make the party. See the results of the last primary."
Arceneaux was alluding to a long-standing critique that the progressive Sanders-wing has failed to gain support from minority voters. Marcus Johnson, a black writer for HuffPost, reiterated this sentiment on Twitter. Johnson responded to a tweet from Mic that expressed Harris' problem with the "Bernie-wing" of the Democratic Party. "She's a black woman and last year that demographic voted against Sanders at the highest rates. That ‘wing' has big props [with] black voters," Johnson wrote.
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