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In reply to the discussion: To win, Democrats should chuck their leadership [View all]betsuni
(28,802 posts)"Harris had 80 billionaires contributing to her campaign. And I think that resulted in her running a much more conservative campaign than she should've run. ... She lost it because of influence from billionaires who told her not to speak up for working families."
"What you're talking about is identity politics. We are so proud that for the first time we have a judge ... who is Black, Latino, Asian, you name it. We have a woman this. We have a gay that. Look, all of us want to see ... our society have good representation in Congress. ... Donald Trump has surrounding him a whole lot of women. There are right-wing women governors all over this country, right. The issue is that Democrats have retreated from class issues, from economic issues, from the desire to take on big money to 'Oh, isn't it wonderful that we have a woman here. We have a gay person here and we have a Black person here and a Latino person over there.'"