Kamala Harris made clear that she thinks the talking heads who draw conclusions about the 2020 presidential race from their desks in Washington and New York are ill-informed at best
The California senator and 2020 Democratic hopeful believes the media narrative taking shape in the presidential race over who is best positioned to reclaim the Midwest for Democrats —essentially that onlycandidates, regardless of where they stand on issues — ignores big swathes of the electorate that she can excite, namely African Americans and women.
Last fall, the California senator accused critics of “identity politics” of weaponizing the term to minimize issues of race, gender and sexual orientation, part of a call from within her own Democratic Party to forcefully confront the issues, however uncomfortable that it may be. In a speech she gave to a Netroots Nation convention in August, Harris said the term "identity politics" is often used to divide and distract.
Harris' latest appraisal comes amid growing perception reflected in media that it will take a white man—perhaps former Vice President Joe Biden or Sen. Bernie Sanders—to defeat Trump in battleground states where he beat Hillary Clinton in 2016. Polling of the contest, with Biden and Sanders leading a historically diverse field of candidates, is reinforcing the early belief—and prompting Harris' calls for broadening the discussion.
"What we saw in Milwaukee, in Detroit and Philadelphia, we lost the presidency where we probably could have focused on those working-class voters of color just a little bit more" in 2016, Sellers added.
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