It is the biggest issue for the Minnesota US Senator who is vying to become Joe Biden’s possible Vice President choice…
She does have work to do….
She like Kamala Harris ?
Spent time as prosecutor……
Does having that job disqualify one from being a Democratic President or Vice President?
Does apply the law even in FOR blacks cost you their political support?
And?
Could Biden’s recent comments to a hip hop radio host cause problems for Klobuchar?
Or?
Is this just the media amplifying some blacks pushing for a minority Vice President, be she experienced or not?
At this time….
Joe Biden and Amy Klobuchar ARE finding out about political IOU’s that become the chess game for politicians looking for support and votes….
Sharpton let the senator from Minnesota speak, but when she was done he instructed her to talk to Martin, pointing him out from the stage. “Y’all need to talk to the black press,” he told her as the audience looked on.
The unusual public scolding underlined a chief weakness in Klobuchar’s current drive to be Joe Biden’s running mate: her strained relations with African Americans. The tensions, rooted in part in her record as a Minneapolis-area prosecutor, hurt her presidential aspirations and have come storming back into the spotlight now that she is increasingly seen as a top candidate to join the ticket.
In response, Klobuchar is urgently courting the black community. In recent weeks she has aggressively reached out to African American groups, introduced a voting rights bill, joined an NAACP town hall, worked with black leaders and granted interviews to African American journalists.
But some say it’s too late to improve her standing after decades of friction. “In the next two weeks? I don’t know what that would look like,” said Rashad Robinson, executive director of the Color of Change, a racial justice nonprofit.
As a county prosecutor, Klobuchar was too harsh toward nonwhite defendants, particularly African Americans, critics say, and as a U.S. senator she’s done little to help the black community. In seriously considering Klobuchar, Biden’s camp is making “a dangerous and reckless choice,” said Aimee Allison, a leading activist for women of color.
Biden has strong support from African American voters, but many of his allies in the black community warn him not to take it for granted…
Note…
Joe Biden STILL needs help with Obama white voters that defected from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump….Black voters are STILL gonna vote for Biden…
image….Sean Rayford/Getty
I think Klobuchar is dropping down on the list of potential picks.
We’ll see in a few days….
Biden still needs her actually absent the black noise…
No establishment Black has knocked Biden for his comments or Klobuchar…
prosecutor
I keep repeating here that Harris has the same history of being a prosocutr …prosecutor
One can expect the same static thrown at her….
This standard would exclude ANY woman experienced enough to be a serious choice for Biden…
He simply should NOT pick a person that has NOT spent anytime on the national level of political politics and government…
Trump is the prime example of NOT doing that….
There is no such thing as squeaky clean politician….
It does NOT work that way….
Biden pandering would actually be worst….
The “prosecutor “ thing is of no importance in my view.
I understand ur view…
It IS mentioned in the post and has been mentioned about Harris….
It isn’t really a big deal with older black voters on the whole who are actually conservative leaning Democrats…
But young blacks, who mostly do NOT vote in the numbers their elders do might care…
Take the DA jobs and Warren is the only one left and I don’t think Biden wants the Mass US Senator…
Before being against bankruptcy laws?
She worked for them…
She is a controversial figure and is already a target rich environment for Republicans and Big business….
She brings old baggage to the table that the left wants…
But hurts Biden with people he would want to work WITH….
I STILL believe Klobuchar IS the BEST choice for Biden in the long run….
Granted that Harris has some detractors in the minority community. It is just the sheer power of having the voice and experience of someone like that on the ticket.
I just don’t see what she adds to the ticket and I say that as a supporter of hers.
A candidate is needed who can help with minority turnout in the three states that cost Hillary the election.
Klobuchar has no appeal there.
And despite all the talk about various states being “in play.”The simplest and, in my view, most viable path is through the usually presidential blue voting states that went For Trump.
I see the Minnesota US Senator as a plus in the states of Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota and even Pennsylvania …
A no nonsense Midwesterner that has experience nationally….
That is NOT a minority woman….
But gets respect where Harris or Warren can’t…
She also seems to get along with Biden and seems not to hold a separate agenda like Warren would….
She can also hold her own in debates….
For the 100th time?
Joe Biden WAS right a few days ago…
He DOES have the black vote, even if he’s not supposed to say that out loud….
He also has Obama as his wing man…
He NEEDS Obama’s independent , Suburban white women voters, he needs middle of the road voters….
Those voters ARE Amy Klobuchar….
There no evidence whatsoever that “suburban white women “ are “for Klobuchar “anymore that a host of others including :Warren, Harris ,Whitmer, or several others.
You want to be for Klobuchar?Be for her.
But simply making up out of whole cloth a definitive statement like that ,while a common tactic of yours, is ridiculous.
Evidence Jack?
He, he, he….
This isn’t a courtroom….
LOOK AT HER….
LOOK AT WHERE SHE COMES FROM….
LOOK AT who she reps….
All irrelevancies.
Ok I “looked” at her
She’s a Senator,like Harris and Warren.
So?
Where she’s from?Minnesota?
So?
Who she reps?Tell us “who.”
Once again this is nothing but you playing cheerleader and making it up as you go along.
We’ll see…
And YES….
I make no secret of who I think should be…
So far?
I ‘m batting 1,000 with Biden…..