Vice President Kamala Harris gave the public its first real look into her nascent presidential campaign with a stop at her organizationā€™s headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware on Monday night.

Harrisā€™ first applause line came when she discussed her background as California attorney general and as a courtroom prosecutor.

ā€œIn those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds,ā€ she said, earning cackles while she beamed, clearly enjoying the joke. ā€œPredators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trumpā€™s type.ā€

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    3 months ago

    Mcainā€™s primary win was a rebuke of Bush. McCain lost to Bush in the 2000 primary. He ran again in 08 and that time he got it because he represented a different ā€œmaverickā€ path from Bushā€™s Neoconservatism.

    McCain was also a neoconservative, but his brand was a straight shooting veteran with principles.

    But the voting base wanted more change than that. McCain was still a Republican. The people wanted the Opposite of Bush, as seen in the down ballot races giving Dems a supermajority. People were predicting the end of the Republican party in 2009.

    We all know how that turned out. But at the time it seemed transformational.

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        It was a terrible decision, but only in hindsight. She was a popular governor and a political outsider, even by Alaska standards.

        But she let the proto tea party get to her and just ran with her worst instincts.