Harris declines to push back against Al Sharpton's suggestion she's too progressive
talked right past the claim that she was “too progressive” in her early career as a prosecutor when she sat down for a friendly interview that aired over the weekend.host Rev. Al Sharpton , he suggested that there was an “orchestrated” effort afoot to use the Democratic nominee’s background as San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general against her.
When Sharpton pointed out that Harris had been accused of being “too progressive as a district attorney,” the 60-year-old answered “I know” before adding: “There are all sorts of people who are going to throw a bunch of things out that will include misinformation with the intention to dissuade certain people from voting.”Christian students in Wisconsin speak out after Kamala Harris told them they were at the 'wrong rally'Missing hiker, 72, found near her dead husband's body in Maine woods kept alive after dog slept on her chest “There’s this narrative about what kind of support we are receiving from black men that is just not panning out in reality, in terms of when I go to, last night, Atlanta and had, I think 10,000 people,” Harris lamented. The veep is trending toward a 41 percentage-point victory over former President Donald Trump among black men between the ages of 18 and 44, just over half the margin Barack Obama ran up against Mitt Romney in 2012, according to Earlier this month, Obama, 63, decried what he considered lower levels of enthusiasm for Harris among black voters and lamented that it “seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.”“What can be frustrating sometimes,” Harris vented Sunday, “is to have journalists ask me this question as though one should assume that I would just be able to take for granted the vote of black men. “I think that’s actually an uninformed perspective, because why would black men be any different than any other demographic of voter? They expect that you earn their vote.”The vice president also declined to say whether she believes resistance to her candidacy from black men is motivated by misogyny.At one point, Sharpton, 70, pondered whether “some of the resistance of some men, black and white, is misogynist.” Harris again skipped a direct answer to that question and instead harped on polls suggesting most Americans “have no problem supporting a woman at all.”Trump's genius McDonald's stunt will fry Kamala at the ballot boxEva Mendes talks turning 50, plus the cosmetic treatments she’s tried — and regretted Inside Khloé Kardashian’s ‘cousins pumpkin party’ for Kardashian–Jenner kids: Slime-making station, candy wall and moreGetty Images The vice president also declined to say whether she believes resistance to her candidacy from black men is motivated by misogyny. 50 Cent defends being vocal about Sean 'Diddy' Combs' alleged abuse, wild parties: 'What I've been saying for 10 years'
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