.zakcheneyrice writes on the historical irony of a Biden-Harris ticket during a criminal-justice reckoning
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images On Tuesday, Joe Biden announced Kamala Harris as his running mate, putting to rest lingering questions about how candidates with condemnable criminal-justice records might fare in today’s Democratic Party — at least for now. Some observers thought an electorate so attuned to the inequities of policing and prisons might reject them, especially Black voters.
These trends looked worrisome for candidates like Biden, Harris, and Amy Klobuchar. And they did surface during the primary. The Sunday before Minnesota’s Super Tuesday vote, Klobuchar’s rally stage was taken over by Black activists demanding that she drop out, which she ended up doing the next day.
Biden’s ascension and choice of vice-president suggest that, rather than being a liability for which candidates are punished, these records have merely nudged them to make moderate entreaties in exchange for more influence than ever before. And far from compensatory, these entreaties have simply aligned them with the Democratic mainstream. Biden’s criminal-justice platform includes ending the use of solitary confinement as punishment and eliminating cash bail.
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