Subject: Re: BLM wants a virtual primary
That's what her campaign is saying....

It's not just what the campaign is saying. It's the truth. From the contemporaneous reporting back in 2021:

“I asked her, the VP, today, because she’s the most qualified person to do it, to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle, and the countries that can help, need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border,” Biden told reporters ahead of an immigration meeting in the White House State Dining Room.

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In the weeks since the President asked her to take charge of immigration from Central America, Vice President Kamala Harris and her staff have sought to make one thing clear: She does not manage the southern border.

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The list of complaints between the West Wing and the vice president’s office keeps growing, even stemming from Harris’ first assignment from Biden this spring. The situation has become a back and forth of irritations – some real, some perceived.

Harris’ team was mad Biden had assigned her to handle diplomatic relations with the Northern Triangle nations, in hopes of addressing the root causes of migration to the US, but gave her no role on the southern border itself. That become the most visible crisis in the early days of Biden’s presidency as unaccompanied minors overwhelmed federal government resources. It seemed like an all-around politically losing assignment even though Biden had seen it as a sign of respect because it was the same job Obama had given him as vice president.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/24...
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/01...
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/14...

That won't work. Her record as a prosecutor is sketchy at best and literally no one is going to believe that she'll be "tough on crime" in 2025 (although democrats all over the country are now running as Law And Order Candidates - they sounds like Reaganites on this issue).

I mean, her job was to put criminals in jail. She lost the primary in 2020, in part, because Democratic voters viewed her as part of the 'carceral problem' back then. It's been a staple of GOP politics to paint all Democrats as squishy on Law and Order for decades now....but that doesn't always stick, and it sticks less on candidates that have some background in law enforcement. So I wouldn't be too confident that Harris' job as a prosecutor won't help her deflect some of that - especially if she takes some internal criticism from groups like BLM that are unhappy with her past life.