congresswoman from hawaii called out kamel harris at a debate and significantly hurt her in the polls by highlighting her record as a criminal prosecutor now donald trump has already reacted to the fact that kamel harris was selected as joe biden's running mate here's what he said to me why number one draft pick and we'll see how she works out she did very very poorly in the. primaries as you know he was expected to do well. and she. he was. right around 2 percent. spent a lot of money he had a lot of things happening and so i was a little surprised that it took to so that's donald trump saying that he's pretty surprised in thinking that it's not a very strategic choice now what's also interesting to point out is that kamel harris has quite a record when it comes to issues like police brutality and mass incarceration and she is very much not the favorite candidate of the black lives matter movement her record as a prosecutor is all over twitter right now being highly scrutinized she could excite the black vote during the primaries she could excite anybody during the primaries the left

school segregation and she invoked her own life experience to criticize him for it this is what kamel harris said to joe biden you know there was a little girl in california who was part of the fekkai class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day and the little girl was away now kamel harris is known for playing up the idea that there is some kind of russian conspiracy against her she claims that russian bots were targeting her on the internet that russia was out to get hurt cetera probably the most controversial thing about kaamelott harris is her record as a prosecutor in california kaamelott harris locked up the parents of children who were truant from school she also jailed thousands of people for the crime of smoking marijuana and then in a recent interview joked about the fact that she smoked marijuana in her south now tulsi gabbert the democratic candidate and u.s. congresswoman from hawaii called out kamel heiress at a debate and significantly hurt her in the polls by highlighting her record as a criminal prosecutor now donald trump has already reacted t

from rival to running mate joe biden is hoping that kamel harris will be a powerful weapon in his arsenal as he selected her as vice president as he prepares to go to battle with donald trump for the white house i decided that comma harris is the best person to help me take this fight to donald trump and mike pence and then lead this nation starting in january 2021 i need someone who understands that we are in a battle for the soul of this nation and that safeway going to get through these crises we need to come together a new night for a better america come and i gets that but unity it seems is not the word on every democrats' lips. let's not forget that for the past few months the united states has been gripped by a wave of protests against police brutality sparked by the killing of george floyd . harbored. so joe biden has selected kamel harris as his vice presidential running mate and with her joy. macon and indian roots she is the 1st woman of color to be selected by a major u.s. political party as a vice presidential candidate this may sound like a smart move generating enthusiasm a

now now kamel harris has been known for playing up the idea that there is a russian threat she's been alleging that russian bots are out to get her that she's being targeted by some kind of russian campaign but probably the most controversial thing about camila harris is her record as a criminal prosecutor in the state of california she jailed the parents of children who were truant from school and was caught on tape laughing about it and she also put many people in prison for smoking marijuana but then in a recent interview she laughed about the fact that she smoked marijuana herself as a college student told. gabbert the candidate of the democratic party went after her in a debate called her out over her record as a prosecutor and apparently that moment did hurt camila harris in the polls now we've heard from donald trump he's spoken out about the fact that joe biden selected pamela harris as his running mate and donald trump has said that she was a weak candidate and that he's quite surprised that his opponent joe biden has selected kaamelott harris especially due to her controvers

kamel harris ran for president by rushing to the radical left president trump's 1st response to the selection of camila harris as biden's running mate was to tweet this attack ad voters reject an heiress they smartly spotted of funny she is. a person that's told many many stories that weren't true she is very big into raising taxes she wants to slash funds for military a level that nobody's can even believe harris's supporters say that's not true they see the california senator as a pragmatic moderate and someone who's worked hard to avoid the label of leftist medic at his daily coronavirus briefing tuesday trump said he was surprised that joe biden picked terrorists because she's accused biden of racism she was very

so joe biden has selected kamel harris as his vice presidential running mate and with her joy. macon and indian roots she is the 1st woman of color to be selected by a major u.s. political party as a vice presidential candidate this may sound like a smart move generating enthusiasm among the democrats base among african-americans however the holes are suggesting otherwise we protest build more schools less jails put money into education our prisons there's a fundamental problem with that approach i agree with that conceptually but you have not addressed the reason i have 3 padlocks on my front door. kamel harris has got a resume full of working with the police locking people up and being unnecessarily gleeful about doing so she even took the move of jailing parents of children who were truant from school as california's attorney general camila harris fought against moves to release nonviolent offenders even after the court ordered her to do so as san francisco's district attorney she secured the conviction of over 1900 people 1st moken marijuana these folks got a life long crim

senator kamel harris to be joe biden's running mate in the 2020 presidential race in an e-mail to his supporters biden declared quote i need someone who understands that we are in a battle for the soul of this nation and that if we're going to get through these crises we need to come together and unite for a better america kamel gets that naturally this choice came with the expected amount of cheering support jeering criticism and crisis hardened indifference that we've come to expect from major political announcements here in 2020 of the year where basically everything has come undone so as we head into a week of virtual political conventions in a race for the white house that after 2 long years is finally finally actually going to officially starts let's take a look at the impact criticism and historical significance of the biden harris ticket to the big dance and joining our ticket to talk about this to do our activists and professor of american history at george washington university brittany lewis am political analyst dr ava's jones the weaver who's also a ph d. very good all rig

president and he's got the character and the experience to make us a better country and in my frien kamel harris he's chosen an ideal partner who is more than prepared for the job someone who knows what it's like to overcome barriers and who's made a career fighting to help others live out their own american dream along with the experience needed to get things done joe and comma have concrete policies that will turn their vision of a better fairer stronger country into reality they will get this pandemic under control like joe did when he helped me manage h one n one and prevent an ebola outbreak from reaching our shores they'll expand health care to more americans like joe and i did 10 years ago when he helped craft the affordable care act and nailed down the votes to make it the law the rescue the economy like joe help me do after the great recession i asked him to manage the recovery act which jump started the longest stretch of job growth in history and he sees this moment now not as a chance to get back to where we were. but to make long overdue changes so that our economy actually makes li

kamel harris has done a lot in recent months to try and clean up her image she's gone to police brutality . the protest to shake hands and take photos she's published an autobiography that presents herself and her career as a prosecutor as if she was fighting against racism on behalf of the downtrodden but some people just aren't buying it i watch a poll numbers go. down to almost nothing donald trump has indicated that he is not too worried about camelot here as she is now polling very well around the country however many are jubilant about the fact that a woman of color as finally joined a major presidential ticket in the united states but many of the people expected to vote for campbell heiress in november have got pretty big questions it will mark them are 2 new york. facebook is being accused of illegally harvesting the facial recognition data of uses of its social media platform instagram a class action against the tech giant could cost the company up to half a trillion dollars once facebook captures instagram users protected by metrics it uses them to both or its facial recognition

you can see that in some ways reflected perhaps in biden's pick of a vice presidential candidate kamel harris actually had to turn back to you know as now to speak a little bit about that because aside from the historic nature of their campaign and the fact that she will be the 1st black woman on a major presidential taken and also the 1st asian woman why do you think there has been so much focus on her as a candidate when you generally don't see this kind of attention on vice presidential picks. right can you talk joe biden a long time before he announced her name i mean he said very early on that he's going to pick a woman. we didn't know until some days ago so there's a lot of burden on her shoulders she has just mentioned really to carry the freakin . of the minorities we must not forget the vote of the latino next there are more and more. able to whoa this is a. fast growing group. but. she also has to kind of get the bridge between the conservatives and the moderate. democrats and she also has to reach out to the progressive in the younger voters because i think they do matter william b

kamel harris has got a resume full of working with the police locking people up and being unnecessarily gleeful about doing so she even took the move of jailing parents of children who were truant from school as california's attorney general camila harris fought against moves to release nonviolent offenders even after the court ordered her to do so as san francisco's district attorney she secured the conviction of over 1900 people 1st smoking marijuana these folks got a life long criminal records and often jail time i went over she then joked about the fact that she's a pot smoker herself have you all smoked i have ok again i had to and i have my name and i didn't handle. it it was a long time ago. at a time when police are not necessarily the most loved among rank and file democrats a certain catch phrases spreading across social media. kamel harris has done a lot in recent months to try and clean up her image she's gone to police brutality protests to shake hands and take photos she's a published an autobiography that presents herself and her career as a prosecutor as if she was fight