Kamala Harris, who launched her campaign for president, has long been a favorite of Hollywood donors.

Kamala Harris has launched her campaign for the White House, after President Joe Biden stepped aside Sunday under pressure from party leaders.

The vice president has Biden’s endorsement, and is unchallenged as yet for the Democratic nomination, which will be formally decided at the Aug. 19 convention in Chicago.

“I am honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination,” Harris said in a statement. “I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party—and unite our nation—to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda. We have 107 days until Election Day. Together, we will fight. And together, we will win.”

In her statement, the vice president paid tribute to Biden’s “extraordinary leadership,” saying he had achieved more in one term than many presidents do in two.

          • @jj4211@lemmy.world
            24•4 months ago

            They were always piss poor about Obama, because there wasn’t any ammunition to work with

            The biggest grievance about her has been that she was overly hard on criminals, and that would backfire on them if they echoed that sentiment to the right wing base. It can piss off leftists though, so astroturfing leftist Internet folks while trying to not say it too loud so people on the right won’t hear it seems to be the game.

            • @JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee
              13•4 months ago

              It does seem like the concern trolls have very quickly moved on from repeating that Biden is too old ad nauseum to Harris convicted too many criminals.

              I think the best thing anyone can do in this day and age is educate themselves on trolling/astroturfing tactics. Once you do they stand out and it makes their goal of dividing and astroturfing significantly more difficult. It also makes them waste their time if no one takes their bait, which is good for everyone.

              • @dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
                3•4 months ago

                Know of any go-to docs on this? I think we’d be better off with a guide or doc somewhere that just gets stickied to every politics thread.

                Admins: wanna get in on this?

                  • @dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
                    4•4 months ago

                    Okay, that paper is fantastic. Thank you.

                    For everyone else the TLDR here is: trolling works by being a huge distraction and it may be more overt or subtle than you think. I’ll leave this here for every to see as they scroll by:

                    Laid bare in this research it’s now clear to me that this isn’t the domain of savants or hyper talented people. You can absolutely train anyone to do this. But we can also train people to identify it.

          • @elbucho@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4•4 months ago

            Which is hilarious, since Biden is old as fuck, and has one of the most stressful jobs in the world. You’d think they’d already have a contingency plan in place in case he kicked the bucket while in office with all of the hate talking points for Harris.

      • @bluewing@lemm.ee
        15•4 months ago

        I wonder if the ‘Black’ part means less to the republican party than her being a pretty competent woman. I can see Harris pulling a LOT of single issue woman voters over the abortion rights issue. And that scares the republican party. It would kill the down ticket vote as well.

    • @pyre@lemmy.world
      21•4 months ago

      ooooh never thought about that. people dislike that she’s a prosecutor so i don’t know if she should use this at all but it’s still kinda awesome

      • @joenforcer@midwest.social
        23•4 months ago

        The “soft on crime” line is completely broken, though. They can’t use it against her because the response is how she built a career around holding felons like Donald Trump accountable, and nothing else. There is zero comeback.

        • @pyre@lemmy.world
          14•4 months ago

          good point. funny how the “tough on crime” people are supporting a convicted felon. of course as with all of their issues it’s just code for bigotry.

          they don’t care about crime, they want to oppress black people.

          they don’t care about the sanctity of marriage or family, they want to oppress gay people.

          they don’t care about the welfare of babies, they want to oppress women.

          and as an obvious part of that of course they never cared about women’s safety in public places or women’s sports, they just want to oppress trans people.

        • Semi-Hemi-LemmygodEnglish
          4•4 months ago

          she built a career around holding felons like Donald Trump accountable

          I hope she gets a chance to say something like that to his face in a debate

      • @jj4211@lemmy.world
        19•4 months ago

        She already has, talked about she was a prosecutor who took down sex predators and scam colleges, both of which are Trump.