Why Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris as his VP

Ever since former Vice President Joe Biden announced he would be choosing a woman as his VP candidate, speculation ran rampant about who it would be. In mid-August, just a week ahead of the Democratic National Convention, he announced it would be California Sen. Kamala Harris. Chris Cillizza explains why.

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80 comments

    1. @MAGA COUNTRY No Maga, because the “left” made him picks one of its people, and because he wants to win so much that he has to obey them.

    2. @saint jack This evil woman has a very bad mouth, she spits out anything to win (she thinks)… Remember how she bark at biden last year, now she all smile to him. What a devil…

    3. My question is how are the hell are you still a thing? I guess we have to wait for the boomer generation to die out first huh?

    4. COME TO THE TIME ALL US PEOPLE HAVE TO EXPRESS ATTITUDE TO THE COMMUNIST COMMUNIST COMMUNICATION OF THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY, OVERWALL CALLED AS THE MEDIA COMMUNICATION, YOU MUST GET COMMUNICATION WITHOUT THIS WAGES, MUST HAVE LAW TO REMOVE THEM IF WE HAVE COMMON FAKE NEWS, TIPS OR SAY THE TRUTH … !!! Wishing the United States of America and the Great Reappearance, then you have to spend all the media and put your rights to the interests of the United States and the American people … !!

  1. That woman is evil. You can safely ignore the goals she “supports” and look at her record as a DA and as a prosecutor. Hiding dna evidence and threatening parents with jail time for child truancy. Congrats on the VP Joe, you just lost a vote

    1. Nova Chini I don’t know if that’s true or not but what is your point? Is she supposed to be responsible for the mistakes of her distant ancestors? She wasn’t alive to make that decision. What if I dug into the past of your family and found out that your ancestors were really bad? Should I hold you responsible for that?

    2. Anonymous Guy also isn’t that why black lives matter is going after white people? Nothing to do with Camela Harris but she supports BLM, and BLM wants white people to apologize for what their ancestors did, getting down on their knees and other nonsense, and they weren’t responsible for their ancestors. So… if whites should be held responsible, then Harris should be too. She should be anyway for all the bullshit she built up after high school

    3. @Anonymous Guy You literally just tried to shame him for not voting for your candidate. Get out of her with this “voting is important” nonsense. You don’t believe any of that. Like literally everyone who says “people should vote and I don’t care who you vote for,” you’re simply lying. Literally every single person I’ve seen say that in 2016 quickly started shitting on everyone and anyone who voted for Trump.

    4. @Tom Sullivan Kamala will be 1000 times better than Trump. Trump is an uneducated evil junk as the world and his family knows

    1. CNN bashed Tucker Carlson for mispronouncing Kamala’s name calling him a racist and then Biden introduced her and pronounced her name just like Tucker.😂😂😂 classic

    1. Two unacceptable choices once again in America. You wonder why you are struggling in the so called greatest country? Well, you have Red Team and a Blue Team who stand for the same things….bailing out corporations (airlines, auto, bankers) instead of figuring out a measly tincy tiny stimulus package. You can’t get a stimulus also because we allow our tax dollars to go to the military. The same military that has killed over 40 million in 37 different nations in the past 60 years. Talk about Hitler being bad? Seriously. Take a look at yourself. Gross.. Salute and bow before the same military that statistically (yes the stats back it up) has nearly 20k sexual assault or rape cases each year. So it confirms again, join the military= get programmed and preconditioned to kill innocent people for the elite so they can have military coups, land grabs, steal oil and minerals and make you think it is all about freedom or our safety. Grow up dummies For much of American political history, thus, the critique of the two-party system was not that the parties were too far apart. It was that they were too similar, and that they stood for too little. The parties operated as loose, big-tent coalitions of state and local parties, which made it hard to agree on much at a national level.

    2. #KamalaIsCaramelHillary
      #CriminalLyingKamala
      #HisNameIsJuicySmollyay

      No, Lying Kamala, this is NOT real “leadership”. This is you & Joke Biden doing the bidding of your NWO globalist overlords, carrying out their psy-op and total NWO TAKEOVER.
      #COVID
      #CrownOvidVaccinationID
      (covid (crown)
      ovid (sheep)
      vaccination
      ID
      #MarkOfTheBeast
      #Luciferase

  2. “Why Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris as his VP”

    He didn’t, he probably wasn’t in the room when the decision was made

    1. ArcangeloSports NOS I heard from a reputable source he was looking for his car with a load in his nappy at the time

    1. @john jay that is funny I bet you are one of those people that want to speak out and say you have that constitutional right but when somebody else it doesn’t agree with what you were saying you want to Stomp all over their constitutional right and tell them to shut up. Pelosi is a hack her and her cronies do not care about the people just look what her and her liberal buddies did to California let me guess you going to tell me to shut up I am not a Republican or a Democrat I don’t trust any politician because I see them for who and what they are

    2. @Rodney Bean I believe my father started telling me that before I could walk LOL. If the right people get in there maybe then we could believe what they say. Somewhat.

    3. @Steffan Burlington what is good for one is good for all without it leaning one way or the other that is true equality

  3. kamala called Joe a rapist and racist in the last 12 months. She called him a racist, to his face, in the debates. Why wouldn’t he pick her.

    1. @John Doe He probably wouldn’t fire anyone because he would immediately forget anyone insulted him

    2. Because black people were going to be mad if he didn’t pick a black woman. I don’t remember who it was, but a black man on his side of things stated to cnn and some other news organization that if he doesn’t pick an black person than he’s gonna lose all respect?

    3. And rumor has it that he didn’t pick her himself. The people on his team picked for him. Idk why but all this seems shady.

    4. @Nova Chini And those are the people who should be ignored because they’re not supporting actual policies.

  4. Didn’t Kamala prove Joe was a racist at the Democrats debates? Was she lying then … or has she now joined with the racists?

    1. @Yeah, right So the crime bill and his continuing support for the drug war isn’t racism? These things are factually being used to crack down on minority communities and he still supports these things. He absolutely is the same person 30-40 years ago. He’s just a lot less overt about it.

    1. @L Richardson actually that no good cop that kneeled on mr. Floyd was arrested and charged but the news still covers that story and people are still looting and burning cities down.

    2. @L Richardson that sounds great but it doesn’t change the fact that the news and some people in this country people do not care about what happened to that little boy. I feel for the Taylor family it is a horrible thing to be forced to go through. That boy was only five years old and he was shot in front of his two sisters so his sisters will never be the same

    3. @Rodney Bean Most people I know personally do care and did share Cannon’s story. It’s horrible that some people do not care about this story. The world could always use more empathy and sympathy.

    4. @L Richardson I I agree 110%. I can’t speak for anybody else but I feel I could feel what is good for one is good for all without it leaning one way or the other that is true equality

    1. @Silvia Sottili I was replying to Kevin Norris when he said: CNN could at least write one article about it.

    2. They’d talk about Cannon Hinnant if the white kid was black and the black man who shot him was white. Then That’s all you’d hear about

  5. Biden: “A woman of color will be President over my dead body!”
    DNC: “That’s been the plan all along, Joe.”

    1. BEST COMMENT!

      #KamalaIsCaramelHillary
      #CriminalLyingKamala
      #HisNameIsJuicySmollyay

      No, Lying Kamala, this is NOT real “leadership”. This is you & Joke Biden doing the bidding of your NWO globalist overlords, carrying out their psy-op and total NWO TAKEOVER.
      #COVID
      #CrownOvidVaccinationID
      (covid (crown)
      ovid (sheep)
      vaccination
      ID
      #MarkOfTheBeast
      #Luciferase

    2. He’s been planning on having her be heir apparent. He admitted to aiming to be a transition president

  6. Kamala “I believe them and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it,” now she’s his partner?!?!

    1. @Oscar Gonzalez It means she believes any victim coming forward in general. But atleast you fixed it.

    2. @Brent Jensen So she’s working with the someone who’s being accused of sexual assault from a victim. A victim she says she believes. So basically she’ll only believe women up to a point.

  7. Want a perfect example of a lying politician? “Oh, Kamala, can you come over here for a minute?”

  8. Kamala pre-VP pick: I believe Biden is a rapist and I am very anti-rioting and not really a BLM supporter.
    Kamala post-VP pick: BLM!! That’s why I’m your VP folks!! Biden is a great man, you have to vote for him!

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