{"id":57250,"date":"2019-01-07T01:20:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T01:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57250"},"modified":"2019-01-07T01:20:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T01:20:10","slug":"will-it-be-a-black-woman-who-turfs-trump-out-of-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57250","title":{"rendered":"Will it be a black woman who turfs Trump out of the White House?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will it be a black woman who turfs Trump out of the White House?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2019-01-06<\/p>\n

Richard Wolfe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nHarris<\/a> in California<\/a>, 2018. \u2018The key primary test for all candidates will be who can best take the fight to Trump<\/a> while still talking to voters beyond the reach of his tweets.\u2019 Photograph: Mark Ralston\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Democrat Kamala Harris<\/a> embodies the driving force behind the party\u2019s electoral surge. She may be their best bet for 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

Life, as Donald Trump<\/a> has known it for the last two years, has just changed forever. Quagmired in a government shutdown of his own making<\/a>, Trump\u2019s ability to manipulate his world is already severely constrained in this very new year. The more he struggles against his new surroundings, the more he sinks.<\/p>\n

Last week the president could only watch his beloved cable news channels as a bystander to the biggest tectonic shifts, as the Democrats took control of the House of Representatives<\/a> and Senator Elizabeth Warren<\/a> became the first candidate to officially emerge to run against him next year<\/a>. And it won\u2019t be long before the House launches several investigations into corruption and incompetence, while the Mueller investigation<\/a> continues to tighten several nooses around all things Trumpian…<\/p>\n

…But one likely candidate particularly intrigues. Kamala Harris<\/a> embodies the driving force pushing Democrats to record turnouts in non-presidential contests over the last two years: women of colour. The California<\/a> senator has served just two years in Congress \u2013 like the last freshman senator to win the Democratic nomination, in 2008. But unlike Barack Obama<\/a>, Harris has a very significant record of public service in her pre-Senate<\/a> career, serving as her state\u2019s attorney general for six years and as San Francisco\u2019s<\/a> district attorney for seven years.<\/p>\n

While all the Democratic candidates can appeal beyond their own demographics, personal perspectives can and do influence political character. There\u2019s no mystery about why Trump performs so well with older white men. And there should be no surprise that Harris \u2013 the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants \u2013 has already won the overwhelming support and respect of influential women of colour who will help shape the Democratic primaries…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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