Sen. Kamala Harris will be on Joe Biden's ticket in November.
I think Joe has made an excellent choice in Sen. Harris. She's smart and tenacious. But my primary approval of Biden's choice is for a reason that others may have saw as a detriment to her being selected as VP.
In an early Democratic debate last December, Harris went after Biden over his praise for the "civility" of segregationist senators and his opposition to busing in the 1970s.
Harris cast the 1970s debate over busing in personal terms:
“There was a little girl in California who was a part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me.”
The moment stung with Biden performing poorly during the debate. Biden told CNN after the debate: "I was prepared for them to come after me, but I wasn’t prepared for the person coming at me the way she came at me. She knew Beau. She knows me.”
Joe Biden's late son was a district attorney when Kamala Harris was also a district attorney and developed a strong friendship.
Former Sen. Chris Dodd was part of the team vetting Biden's running mate search and was reportedly skeptical of Harris because of that debate, questioning whether she would be loyal to Biden.
With all due respect to Sen. Dodd, we've seen four years of contentious and incompetent conduct because Donald Trump and his sycophantic enablers have valued loyalty to the man above loyalty to the truth.
We need people in positions of political leadership to be dedicated to their service to the American people and not to the whatever convenient political spin benefits Donald Trump in the last five minutes.
That moment on the debate stage for Sen. Kamala Harris made the case for Joe Biden to pick her as his running mate.
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