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In reply to the discussion: The real issue is not Biden's age -- it's VP Kamala Harris. [View all]ancianita
(36,511 posts)sucks all the oxygen out of any room or platform.
If anyone wanted to know who she'd be as president, a few facts will appear buried by negative headlines about her.
-- When Biden underwent a colonoscopy in November 2021, Harris served as acting president, becoming the first woman (and first South Asian American) to officially wield presidential authority.
-- She had spent the better part of her career as a smart on crime prosecutor who won her first electiondistrict attorney of San Francisco, in 2003by positioning herself as a pragmatic reformer. As Californias attorney general, she targeted transnational gangs and cartels and won billions in extra relief from big banks at the center of the foreclosure crisis.
-- She had been California's junior senator for just over two years when she launched a bid for the presidency, in 2019, buoyed by the brief but bright flashes of stardom shed earned from her tough, courtroom-style questioning of Trump-administration officials, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions (Im not able to be rushed this fast; it makes me nervous, Sessions complained to her at one point), and of the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Anyone can Google her prosecutorial record or read her Wikipedia entry.