Kamala Harris: Why She's a Badass and Totally Qualified for POTUS

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Which is just insane that we even had to just talk about that.

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To be honest, I know it's such an insane thing that we just had to cover.

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The fact that we had to come out and say having kids does not or does disqualify you from being a president is just an insane statement.

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But anyway Astonishing.

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Welcome back to the United she Stands podcast, the show that brings kindness and women into politics.

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I'm Ashley.

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And I'm Sarah, and we're two women from Ohio who are here to become more educated about American politics and build a community so we can all get involved and make an impact together.

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We hope we'll inspire and empower you along the way.

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Hello party people.

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Welcome back to another episode of the United she Stands podcast.

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So we now know that current Vice President Kamala Harris is officially our Democratic nominee for the President of the United States this November.

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With that news, other than being through the roof excited, we also wanted to dedicate an episode to Kamala and talk about how much of a badass she is and how qualified she is for the role of President of the United States.

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Doesn't that sound like fun?

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It does.

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And, to be clear, this episode could have been hours long.

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We really tried to just focus on the highlights and not get too far down the rabbit hole to keep this episode as short and as digestible as possible.

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Also, we just want to say here that we can't stress enough how thankful we are that President Biden stepped out of the race and endorsed Kamala.

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It took an extreme amount of courage and humility to be willing to step aside and let someone with a little more stamina step up as the potential leader of our country.

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So shout out to Biden.

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We appreciate this act of patriotism from the bottom of our heart.

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We really do so.

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Beer, what are we drinking?

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Beer.

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I have non-alcoholic beer today.

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It's Athletic Brewing Co and it's their Wits Peak, which is a Belgian style white, and it's very delicious.

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These NAs are very impressive lately, like they are good these days.

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It's crazy.

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I have heard incredible things about athletic brewing, Like they are just dominating the NA beer.

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I think that's my first athletic but yeah, I really like it oh really yeah.

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I first learned about it from Money with Katie.

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She loves athletic brewing.

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Oh really yeah.

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I am drinking a Ata Wata, which is Jackie O's new Mexican lager.

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That is a collab with the band Camp, so Ashley is very proud of me for drinking a Mexican lager and it is really hitting the spot.

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So this might not be the last you hear of me drinking one on the podcast.

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Yeah, because they're refreshing as fuck they really are.

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This is great.

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They're easy drinking beers.

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You wonder why I always grab for it.

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It's because it's an easy drinking beer.

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It's refreshing, it's easy to drink.

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There's good things about it.

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A little lime I don't have a lime, but like a little lime in the summer.

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It's crazy.

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Yeah, and this is five and a half percent, and I'm usually like, I'm usually drinking IPAs that are at least seven, so this is a nice change.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Okay, let's jump in.

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So we're going to start by saying anyone literally anyone, is better than Trump and we cannot emphasize that enough.

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If you listened to any of our previous episodes in the past couple of weeks, I think you probably know that that's how we feel and we're going to emphasize that.

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But that will be the last time you hear us say that, because we are not going to take anything away from Kamala's qualifications.

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We fully believe she is qualified and is a great option, and we'll get into all of the why here after this little ramp.

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But I mean, come on the whole, I'm not going to vote, or I might vote, for Trump because I don't think Kamala is a leader or I don't like her or whatever the argument is.

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It is honestly irrational and very short-sighted.

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We know Trump isn't a leader.

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We know he will do damaging things.

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So again, literally anyone is better than Trump being in office.

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We recorded an episode all about the threat of another Trump presidential term a few weeks ago, so if you haven't, you can go listen to that.

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Maybe that can help you convince anyone who still needs convincing.

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But for now, today we are going to focus on Kamala and all of her qualifications, and we're going to start with a little bit of her personal background.

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That is right.

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So Vice President Harris was born in Oakland, california, on October 20th 1964.

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To save you some mental math here, she's currently 59 years old.

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Joe Biden is 81 and Donald Trump is 78.

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She is literally a spring chicken compared to them.

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So anyway, she's a daughter of immigrants.

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Her father is from Jamaica and her mother is from Southern India.

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She grew up surrounded by a diverse community and a loving, extended family.

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She and her sister, maya, were inspired by their mother, Shyamala Kapelan, a breast cancer scientist and pioneer in her own right, who came to the United States from India at the age of 19 and then received her doctorate in the same year that Kamala was born.

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Both of the vice president's parents were active in the civil rights movement and instilled in her a commitment to build strong coalitions that fight for the rights and freedoms of all people.

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They brought her to civil rights marches in a stroller and taught her about heroes like Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and civil rights leader Constance Baker Motley.

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There's a famous piece of advice Kamala's mother gave her that she is committed to fulfilling In quotes here Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last.

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Damn, I love that so much.

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I remember like when she was announced or Biden endorsed her or whatever, like that quote was flying around social and I was just like I want that on a shirt.

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I know I love it so much and like, want that on a shirt.

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I know I love it so much.

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And as we go through all of her credentials here, you will see that she is the first of many things and it's just oh my gosh, it's just so incredible.

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So Kamala went on to graduate from Howard University and the University of California Hastings College of Law.

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In 2014, she married Douglas Emhoff, who is a lawyer.

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They have a large blended family that includes their children, ella and Cole, who are Kamala's stepchildren.

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They call her Mamala.

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How cute is that that is so cute actually.

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It's so adorable, such a good stepmom name.

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I mean, you know, I know, I know.

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So I feel like this is a good time to briefly talk about the whole childless cat lady thing that's been blowing up the internet.

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In a 2021 interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, then Senate candidate Vance, complained that the US was being run by Democrats, corporate oligarchs and, in quotes here, a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too.

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End quote.

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He went on to say quotes it's just a basic fact.

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You look at Kamala Harris, pete Buttigieg, aoc.

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The entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.

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And how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it?

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End quote.

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What the actual fuck?

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He's really something.

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Yeah, that is a very kind way to put it yeah, so a video of the interview recently resurfaced on social media, as did an unrelated 2021 tweet in which vance used the term in quotes weird cat ladies as an insult.

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Vance has called falling us birth rates a civilizational crisis and advocated in recent years that adults without children should pay higher taxes and have fewer voting rights, and his cat lady comments, amplified online by Vice President Harris's presidential campaign, definitely did not land well, to say the least.

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In a statement to NBC News, Kirsten Emhoff, Kamala's husband's ex-wife, called Vance's attacks faceless and added that in quotes here for over 10 years, since Cole and Ella were teenagers, Kamala has been a co-parent with Doug and I.

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She is loving, nurturing, fiercely protective and always present.

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I love our blended family and am grateful to have her in it.

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I feel like Kirsten speaking out like that is Just the ultimate mic drop I mean, that's his ex-wife Like that doesn't say anything about her character.

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I mean, I don't know.

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I could not agree more.

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The ultimate mic drop Go Kirsten, yeah.

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So can we just point out that no other president has birthed a child either, because they were all men.

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It doesn't matter whether politicians have kids or have physically given birth to any children.

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Doesn't matter whether politicians have kids or have physically given birth to any children.

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Politicians must pursue policies that will make life better for children and parents and who understand that all of us, kids or no kids, have a stake in that and, quite frankly, kamala does pursue those policies.

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We'll touch on her dedication to reproductive rights later in this episode, but she also has done a lot for maternal rights.

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In June 2022, she announced the Biden-Harris administration's blueprint for addressing the maternal health care crisis, an effort to combat maternal mortality and morbidity.

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Yeah, and I will just add I know she is, I think, the first major presidential nominee to fully go forward and be all for paid parental leave.

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Um, love it, which is huge, obviously.

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Or just you know the whole argument of she doesn't have any stakes for kids whatever, which is just insane, that we even had to just talk about that.

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To be honest, I know such an insane thing that we just had to cover.

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The fact that we had to come out and say having kids does not or does disqualify you from being a president is just an insane statement, but astonishing.

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Here's the Republican world we're living in.

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Ok, so, in regards to the Biden-Harris administration's blueprint for addressing the maternal health crisis, here's a few of the many things the administration has accomplished they created the first ever baseline federal health and safety requirements for maternal emergency and obstetric services and hospitals.

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They extended postpartum Medicaid coverage from two to 12 months, providing life-saving coverage to hundreds of thousands of new moms, and encouraged states to cover doula services.

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They created a new birthing-friendly hospital designation so that women can more easily find high-quality maternity care.

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And they launched the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline, which has connected nearly 38,000 individuals to free, confidential, 24-7 support.

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For those who don't know.

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Behavioral health issues, such as maternal depression, are the most common complications of pregnancy and childbirth, so this was a very important accomplishment.

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This isn't an exhaustive list of the benefits from the Blueprint for Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis or an exhaustive list of the types of policies that make life better for children and parents, but we did want to give you some proof of Kamala supporting and implementing significant policies that support families, even though she never birthed a child.

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I feel like we could talk about this for the whole episode, but we're going to stop here, as the whole childless cat lady thing is utterly ridiculous and doesn't deserve any more attention from here on out, unless it's a funny meme, true.

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So let's talk about Kamala's career before becoming VP.

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First and foremost, kamala Harris has devoted her career to fighting for the people, and that'll become very evident throughout this episode.

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In 1990, kamala joined the Oakland's Alameda County District Attorney's Office, where she specialized in prosecuting child sexual assault cases.

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She spent three decades as a prosecutor and also spent time serving as a deputy district attorney for Alameda County before she was elected in 2004 to be district attorney of San Francisco.

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By the way, she got reelected to this job for a second term, so she served as the San Francisco District Attorney from 2004 to 2011.

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In this role, she was a national leader in the movement for LGBTQ plus rights, officiating the first same-sex wedding after Proposition 8 was overturned.

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As the DA, she also established the office's Environmental Justice Unit and created a groundbreaking program to provide first-time drug offenders with the opportunity to earn a high school degree and find employment, which the US Department of Justice designated as a national model of innovation for law enforcement.

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In 2011, harris became the first Black American, first woman and first Asian American elected to be the Attorney General of California.

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She was also re-elected for this job, so she was a California Attorney General from 2011 to 2017.

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In this role, she oversaw the largest state justice department in the country.

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She took on those who were preying on the American people, winning a $20 billion settlement for Californians whose homes had been foreclosed on and a $1.1 billion settlement for students and veterans who were taken advantage of by a for-profit education company.

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She also defended the Affordable Care Act in court and enforced environmental laws.

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Kamala's next journey began in 2016, when she ran for the United States Senate to represent California.

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Are we shocked that she won?

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No, no, we're not.

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Neither were former President Barack Obama and then VP Joe Biden who endorsed her campaign.

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She was the first Black woman from California and the second in the nation's history to earn that job.

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She was also the nation's first Indian American senator.

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Like just wow, how freaking cool is that she is.

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She's pretty cool, Okay.

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So as a senator of California, she championed legislation to fight hunger, provide rent relief, improve maternal health care, expand access to capital for small businesses, revitalize America's infrastructure and combat the climate crisis.

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She questioned two Supreme Court nominees while serving on the Judiciary Committee.

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She also worked to keep the American people safe from foreign threats and crafted bipartisan legislation to assist in securing American elections while serving on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

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And don't worry, we haven't even gotten to her accomplishments from her time as our vice president.

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I strongly argue that she's extremely qualified, just from what we've already covered, but don't worry, there's more.

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On January 20th 2021, kamala Harris was sworn in as vice president, the first woman, the first Black American and the first South Asian American to be elected to this position.

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Chills, ash, did you watch her being sworn in?

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I think I know the answer.

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Yeah, I absolutely did, and I'm pretty sure I cried.

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I a thousand percent cried.

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I was like this moment, I, yeah, yeah, I really like.

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At that point in time I didn't know much about her at all, but I was still just so fucking jazzed that I saw the first woman or whatever.

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Just to see a female being put in the second highest position next to the president in America.

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I mean, it was just I remember.

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I don't think I'll ever forget actually watching that?

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Totally agree, Absolutely groundbreaking.

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So as vice president, she has worked to bring people together to advance opportunity, deliver for families and protect fundamental freedoms across the country.

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She has led the fight for freedom of women to make decisions about their own bodies.

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She did this by launching a nationwide Fight for Reproductive Freedom tour, highlighting the harm caused by abortion bans.

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She called on Congress to restore the protections of Roe v Wade after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022.

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She has also led the fight for the freedom to live safe from gun violence.

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In fact, she oversees the new Office of Gun Violence Prevention.

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With her leadership, the administration was able to pass the bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the most significant legislation action in nearly 30 years, among other things like expanding background checks.

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She's also passionate about, and has led the fights for, the freedom to vote and the freedom to drink clean water and breathe clean air.

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While making history at home, she is also representing the nation abroad, embarking on more than a dozen foreign trips.

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She's traveled to more than 19 countries and has met with more than 150 world leaders to strengthen critical global alliances.

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Maybe we know this from previous educational episodes of ours, but, just as a reminder, the vice president acts as the president of the Senate.

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Kamala has set a new record for the most tie-breaking votes cast by a VP in history, surpassing a record that had stood for nearly 200 years, and her votes have been consequential.

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This includes casting the decisive vote to secure passage of the landmark Inflation Reduction Act, the largest investment ever in tackling the climate crisis.

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She also presided over the unprecedented vote to confirm the first Black woman Justice, katonji Brown Jackson, to the Supreme Court, while working alongside President Biden to achieve historic representation of women and people of color among nominees at all levels of our federal government.

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So do we all think she's extremely qualified to be the president?

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Yet?

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Do we all think she's extremely qualified to be the president, yet Do we all think she's an actual badass?

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Okay good, I'm so glad we're on the same page.

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There have been a couple of arguments people have been using to criticize Kamala, though, and we don't even have to touch on her being a woman, because obviously she's getting shit for that, and we already talked about the childless woman argument, which is infuriating, but anyway, let's talk instead about how people have been calling Kamala a failed borders are, which is someone who is in charge of immigration enforcement policies.

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So first of all, let's just start by saying no one has succeeded at the border Not Trump he had four years to do it.

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Not Biden, who technically was in charge for the last four years.

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And not Congress Absolutely not Congress, who intentionally made the border the current situation it is.

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They have all had a shot to do something and no one has made the situation better down there.

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It's a super complicated problem that involves humans and human lives and no one has been able to solve it.

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So holding Kamala to a standard where you won't vote for her because of this failing is illogical, especially because the other guy on the ballot also failed at this and kind of insane.

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Based on the other choice on the ballot, he couldn't fix it either.

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Exactly so.

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Second off, harris was actually never given the portfolio for a border czar.

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The position doesn't exist.

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Biden asked Harris to lead diplomatic efforts to reduce root causes of migration like poverty, violence and corruption in Central America's Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, honduras and El Salvador, as well as engage with Mexico on the issue.

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It was similar to the job that Biden had when he was vice president Alan Beerson, who is a special representative for border affairs under Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

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He said in an interview quotes here it's hard in a short period of time to come up with a strategy that impacts the very real and complicated psychological decision-making that people in those countries go through when they're deciding to come to the United States.

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The White House, of course, defends Kamala's work on the border.

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They say she continues to lead the effort to address the root cause of migration, including by generating more than $5.2 billion in investments into the region to give people economic opportunity at home.

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The region to give people economic opportunity at home.

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These investments are creating jobs and have connected more than 4.5 million people to the internet and brought more than 2.5 million people into the formal financial system.

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Under Kamala's leadership, the Biden-Harris administration continues to implement the root causes strategy, through which the administration is on track to meet its commitment to provide $4 billion to the region over four years, and continues to work to combat corruption, reduce violence and empower women.

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And just one note here too, is dressing root cause takes time to see the benefits of that.

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So we'll just start with that.

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And second, we will start by saying that the Republicans and Democrats worked for months to create a bipartisan border deal.

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That was all you know, for all intents and purposes, looking great.

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People were on board.

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Trump came in and said we can't make that happen because I won't be able to campaign on the border.

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And it is on record from Republicans saying that they pulled out of that border deal because Trump told them to.

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So this whole border situation Congress should be legislating solutions to solve.

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They will not do their job, so Donald Trump can campaign on this exact issue, but anyway, Biden and Harris then did sign executive orders to try to do something and we have seen border crossing numbers come down.

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So all that to say once again, Donald Trump sucks.

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I don't know what else to say.

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Is that a good summary?

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That's our conclusion, for like everything nowadays, yeah it really is Okay.

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So, anyway, we say all this to just say that maybe she's not knocking the border issue out of the park, but also she could only do so much.

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But there has been some effort on her part made and there has been progress on her part made.

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So, but back to our first point.

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It's just a really complex issue and truly no one has excelled at this issue no one on the current ballot.

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So there it is, although I would argue Kamala and Biden have made decent improvements.

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Mm, hmm, yeah, and the fact that Trump is asking Republicans to not vote on something that would be helpful so he could campaign on it is just utter insanity.

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It's just the worst.

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I mean, if you really want what is best for America, like you, don't pull shit, like that it's awful, I agree.

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So the other argument we've often heard is that Kamala is a cop.

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The Kamala is a cop attack and viral meme became a mantra on the progressive left during the 2020 presidential primaries, when she had a short stint running for president.

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Referring to her as a cop is a reference to her time as the district attorney of San Francisco.

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Activists argued that being a DA was an inherently pro-police, pro-prisons job, a change Harris hasn't always shied away from in her political career.

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People accuse her of prosecutorial overreach and insufficiently opposing or even actively advancing the carceral state, which means the nature of a prison.

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They claim she was merely masquerading as a reformer and someone.

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As far as to call this half-Black politician anti-Black.

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Kamala's team has said, the memes and, most importantly, their origin of them at best are a manipulation of facts and at worst lies and designed to dissuade voters and stoke hate and skepticism based on race.

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Ultimately, her record shows how much more complicated and nuanced Harris's legal career was and how carefully she navigated a flawed and racist legal system, pushing for some reforms while looking to avoid landmines, while looking to avoid landmines.

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And I would just say this is such a funny argument to me because, like she's not, you know, left enough, but then the right attacks her for being like super left.

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Yeah, and it's just so interesting, right, like how different groups view her.

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But anyway, can you blame her?

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She was a district attorney, it was her job.

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Right, right, to end this Kamala hype episode, we'd love to quote her famous I know Donald Trump's type speech.

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She starts by talking about the many roles she held before coming vice president.

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She says in quotes here in those roles I took on perpetrators of all kinds, predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain.

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So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump's type and in this campaign I will proudly put my record against his.

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She is literally the exact opposite of Donald Trump.

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That should be extremely appealing as people are trying to decide who to vote for this November, and that, coupled with her age, I mean, come on, everyone was just saying anyone but these two old white guys.

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So here you go.

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Here she is.

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We fully support Kamala Harris and know she is more than capable of being our president and she would truly kick ass to this job, and we've already seen her implement policies we are for and really appreciate.

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Absolutely so.

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Please register to vote.

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Check your registration.

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We know it's August, but make your voting plan now Voting via absentee ballot.

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Go ahead and request a ballot today.

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Not sure you'll be around on election day.

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Put a block on your calendar for sometime during the weeks before the election to go to the polls early.

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Reach out to your friends and family and make them do the same.

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Kamala Harris currently sits at the cusp of breaking one of the highest glass ceilings in American life.

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Let's help her fucking shatter it.

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Let's fucking go.

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Thanks for listening.

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I was going to say requirements, but that wasn't the right word In my head.

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I'm like she's got this in my head.

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I'm like she's got this, she's got that, she's got this, I got this I got it.

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I got it okay, the overall blueprint for the biden, harris.

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Um, let me start that over let me that over.

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She said so, in regards to the biden, harris administration's blueprint, blueprint Harris administration's blueprint Blueprint, blueprint, blueprint, blueprint.

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With her leadership.

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What Remind me of the Nemo and a mama.

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You know what I'm talking about.

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And then an enemy, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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That word is so hard.