Kamala Harris, who launched her campaign for president, has long been a favorite of Hollywood donors.

Kamala Harris has launched her campaign for the White House, after President Joe Biden stepped aside Sunday under pressure from party leaders.

The vice president has Biden’s endorsement, and is unchallenged as yet for the Democratic nomination, which will be formally decided at the Aug. 19 convention in Chicago.

“I am honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination,” Harris said in a statement. “I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party—and unite our nation—to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda. We have 107 days until Election Day. Together, we will fight. And together, we will win.”

In her statement, the vice president paid tribute to Biden’s “extraordinary leadership,” saying he had achieved more in one term than many presidents do in two.

  • petrol_sniff_king
    22·
    2 months ago

    I’m sure they’ll find their footing eventually, but so far it’s been pretty piss poor. Aimless. I think it legit never occurred to them this could happen.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
      24·
      2 months ago

      They were always piss poor about Obama, because there wasn’t any ammunition to work with

      The biggest grievance about her has been that she was overly hard on criminals, and that would backfire on them if they echoed that sentiment to the right wing base. It can piss off leftists though, so astroturfing leftist Internet folks while trying to not say it too loud so people on the right won’t hear it seems to be the game.

      • JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee
        13·
        2 months ago

        It does seem like the concern trolls have very quickly moved on from repeating that Biden is too old ad nauseum to Harris convicted too many criminals.

        I think the best thing anyone can do in this day and age is educate themselves on trolling/astroturfing tactics. Once you do they stand out and it makes their goal of dividing and astroturfing significantly more difficult. It also makes them waste their time if no one takes their bait, which is good for everyone.

        • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 months ago

          Know of any go-to docs on this? I think we’d be better off with a guide or doc somewhere that just gets stickied to every politics thread.

          Admins: wanna get in on this?

            • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
              4·
              2 months ago

              Okay, that paper is fantastic. Thank you.

              For everyone else the TLDR here is: trolling works by being a huge distraction and it may be more overt or subtle than you think. I’ll leave this here for every to see as they scroll by:

              Laid bare in this research it’s now clear to me that this isn’t the domain of savants or hyper talented people. You can absolutely train anyone to do this. But we can also train people to identify it.

    • elbucho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Which is hilarious, since Biden is old as fuck, and has one of the most stressful jobs in the world. You’d think they’d already have a contingency plan in place in case he kicked the bucket while in office with all of the hate talking points for Harris.