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  • Donald Trump contributed $6,000 to Kamala Harris when she ran for California attorney general.
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  • Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race on Sunday and endorsed Kamala to replace him.
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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ranked most politically left compared to Senate Democrats

Our unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress.

For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 116th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Harris’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all Senate Sophomores (0th percentile); Senate Democrats (0th percentile); All Senators (1st percentile).

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kamala_harris/412678/report-card/2020

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but all Senators in the Republican and Democratic party are right wing. Bernie Sanders is an independent so not included in the "Senate Democrats" label. He is a centrist and thus left of her slightly, but there are no leftists in the Senate. Their scale is just from most to least right leaning and not from left to right for a reason.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So true, but you’d be oblivious if all you watch is cable news

[–] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Calling it "news" is disingenuous and helps no one, mind you.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In addition to what @riotsoma said below, people also don't like her due to her actions as a prosecutor before she was in the Senate. They equate her with police basically.

I disagree wholeheartedly with how she handled drugs in CA, etc., but let's be clear: prosecutors are not cops. How would a modern society function without them? Truly, this is an open question to all those "Kamala is a cop I'll never vote for her" people.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i posted that to have a summary but if that's not enough you can just look up her votes. she's mostly pretty good, and her votes include supporting budget cuts to LAPD. criminal justice is still probably her weakest point as she obviously would have bias but it's not as bad as people might assume.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Kamala_Harris

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

her votes include supporting budget cuts to LAPD

Any politician willing to suggest budget cuts to the cops is actually pretty brave.