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Tulsi Gabbard pulls ahead of KH in polls + Andrew Yang responds to Reddit story - C C - Oct 31, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard pulls ahead of Kamala Harris in national poll (excerpt): A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll shows Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard leading California Senator Kamala Harris nationwide. The revelation is noteworthy because Harris was at 15.2 percent average polling support at the height of her primary success before she gradually declined. In particular, Harris’ support took a significant dip after Gabbard called out her criminal justice record during the second Democratic presidential debate. Harris has experienced criticism for her record as California’s attorney general and San Francisco’s district attorney, and Gabbard’s attack highlighted the specifics behind such criticism, Business Insider reported.
[...] As The Inquisitr reported, Harris’ approach to clergy abuse when she was San Francisco’s district attorney has also raised eyebrows. According to Joey Piscitelli, a victim of molestation who became a spokesman for clergy sex abuse victims in the 2000s, Harris never responded to his accusations that a priest sexually abused him in a local Catholic cathedral ministry... (MORE)
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Tulsi Gabbard's rise in the polls disproves Kamala Harris's 'electability' theory (excerpt): . . . Even if we were to give Harris the benefit of the doubt, though — assuming that voters aren’t ready for a woman of color to sit in the Oval Office — how would we explain Tulsi Gabbard’s recent leap in the polls? Gabbard is now up to 5% in New Hampshire, according to a recent CNN/UNH poll, while Harris has sunk to 3%. Gabbard is also a woman of color — of Asian and Polynesia descent. It doesn't seem to have hurt her campaign. If anything, it has helped. Diversity is an asset among Democratic voters. Harris knows this, but she’s determined to play the victim.
If ethnicity and gender aren’t Harris’s problem, then what is it? Harris’s problem is that she’s an inconsistent candidate, waffling on her healthcare proposals, school busing — the key issue she used to attack Biden. And then there are her past prosecutorial scandals that other candidates, Gabbard included, have used to delegitimize Harris’s record as a former prosecutor, senator, and now presidential candidate. In fact, Harris seems to have faded slowly ever since Gabbard called her out on her prosecutorial record during the debate that took place in July... (MORE)
Andrew Yang responds to emotional Reddit story from ex-‘Alt-Right’ supporter
https://www.inquisitr.com/5719846/andrew-yang-reddit-alt-right/
EXCERPT: Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang recently responded to an emotional Reddit story from someone who claims to be a former “alt-right” supporter. Although the story is anonymous and unverified and could very well be fake, it nevertheless highlighted the possibility that the openness of the 44-year-old serial entrepreneur’s campaign — which welcomes people of all political leanings — is having some unforeseeable effects on people
[...] “I was present at the Charlottesville rally. I felt no remorse when I heard a woman had been killed. Today, I know her name was Heather Heyer,” he [the user] wrote ... The user claims that displeasure with Donald Trump pushed him to Yang, who was initially appealing for the one reason — his signature proposal of a universal basic income (UBI) of $1,000 per month for every American. [...] From here, the user claims he began following Yang on social media, watching interviews, and eventually attending rallies. He called the Democratic presidential candidate “charismatic” and said he felt that Yang cared about the issues of his campaign. After the user saw the benefit he believed Yang’s policies would create for him and his loved ones, he suggested that it triggered feelings of empathy for others... (MORE - details)