Kamala Harris, the Democrat senator from California, just announced that she will be running for the Democrat presidential nomination in 2020. That leads to the inevitable comment: "So what?"
That actually is a fair question. Let's forget all the horse race type of stuff that the media will focus on. Let's ask the basic questions instead: "What does senator Harris offer as her vision for America? What policies does she propose that will help improve the lives of Americans? What is her foreign policy to make us safer?"
As of now, the answer to these three questions is unknown. Think about it for a moment. Without doing research on the subject, what do you understand to be Harris' vision for America? I guarantee that is a question that 99.9999% of Americans cannot answer and for those few who do answer, most will get it wrong.
Harris is running because she satisfies certain demographic niceties. She's half-black and half South Asian. She is a woman. That may look good to those who praise diversity, but how does it help govern the USA?
Harris is going to have to provide answers to these questions if she is to succeed. Normally, a successful presidential candidate already has given answers for years prior to announcing. Senator Harris will need to catch up on this front if she is to go anywhere.
That actually is a fair question. Let's forget all the horse race type of stuff that the media will focus on. Let's ask the basic questions instead: "What does senator Harris offer as her vision for America? What policies does she propose that will help improve the lives of Americans? What is her foreign policy to make us safer?"
As of now, the answer to these three questions is unknown. Think about it for a moment. Without doing research on the subject, what do you understand to be Harris' vision for America? I guarantee that is a question that 99.9999% of Americans cannot answer and for those few who do answer, most will get it wrong.
Harris is running because she satisfies certain demographic niceties. She's half-black and half South Asian. She is a woman. That may look good to those who praise diversity, but how does it help govern the USA?
Harris is going to have to provide answers to these questions if she is to succeed. Normally, a successful presidential candidate already has given answers for years prior to announcing. Senator Harris will need to catch up on this front if she is to go anywhere.
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