Kamala Harris backs Zohran Mamdani in New York mayoral race

Kamala Harris finally sees which way the wind is blowing.

Watch the whole interview, its so bad. She has terrible instincts.
Her "endorsement": I support the democrat, but there are other stars too, like <insert 2 names I literally never heard of> from other mayoral races. Just pissing on the most popular candidate in the country and taking 2 random mayors down with her, instead of "Mandami is great, and I'm really hopeful about these other guys"
She complains that "titans of industry" didn't step in to stop Trump. Her goal isn't to help the american people, but to "restore the guardrails of our institutions". Isn't her dad supposed to be a Marxist? Have they never been in a room for 5 minutes?
Turns out Newsom is as petty as you would expect, while Pelosi and Obama were so ideologically westwing-brained they were more concerned about Biden "having his moment" than actually winning.
Close friend of Trump and Epstein, Bill Clinton, seemed eager to support anyone who had a better shot than post-shitting-himself-debate Biden.
Well anyone can see that the far left will eventually turn against Mamdani just as they turn against everyone else LOL.

We all see right through you Kamala.

I'm a actually not that cynical of it. In her book she was critical of who the establishment in the Biden administration treated her.

Worse case is she's endorsing him to make her self look good. But honestly I think it's great she did endorse him. It will go a long way with causal/centrist democrats and centerist independents.

I'm taking the broad position that last-minute endorsements of Mamdani are just saving face for the establishment. That window closes in mid-October or so.
- Want change in the party This is how it happens. Purity tests leave you a political outsider. Welcome each endorsement and they can be reminded later.
It's kinda how I feel about corporations supporting good things. People will point out that they're only doing it for money or whatever, but I don't care. If they all start supporting and normalizing good things, I don't care that it started for dumb reasons.
- I disagree. Does only the end goal matter? Or does intention also matter?
  I would argue that intent is actually more important in the long run. I could perform an act today that helps people, but if my intent wasn’t to help people, then the act will be singular. There will be no “drive” toward greater acts that help even more people. No continuous improvement. No learning from mistakes and growing. Why? Because if I don’t actually care about helping people, none of that background stuff is happening which actually moves you toward your goals in the long run
- Depends on the company, for the most part i'm with you, but if say Monsanto and Phillip Moris are backing things, it makes you ponder what you don't know and if it's a bad thing.
- I studied environmental sciences in school, so the metaphor I think of is that of indicator species, which provide information about the state of an ecosystem. For example, the presence of mayflies indicates good water quality, since poor water quality disrupts part of their lifecycle. Similarly, corporations supporting good things indicates that they feel it is profitable to do so. It indicates the state of public sentiment, and I don't see how that's anything but good news.
  Same with Harris (indirectly) endorsing Mamdani: Maybe she's just bending with the wind, but it's good news because of the way the wind is blowing.
Worse case is she's going to insincerely try to take on the appearance of a progressive
But she's just one of many figures being groomed to do this, so hopefully it just helps cement Mumdani as the spiritual leader of the party
- Worst case is he made a bunch of centrist concessions to get her on board, leaving him as just another establishment dem.
- Nobody believes her, just like nobody believes Hilary. The constant fence-hopping goes beyond someone learning new information and switching stances, its pure opportunism, and thus not genuine.
  And honestly, her endorsing him is more a disservice in my eyes than helping him. She's performed poorly and make others think that Mumdani is not genuine by association.

I think I'm stupid because I thought the race was already over.

The primary is over. The general election is in November.
So far, Mamdani is out in front by a wide margin, though. I don't want to count any chickens before they hatch, but it'd take a lot for anyone else to beat him.

Isn't there overwhelming polling saying he is likely to win? Harris hitches herself to whoever is likely to win. That is her entire career.

Alternately, her endorsement is another way the Democratic establishment is trying to make him lose. 😉
- How? The on the fence centrist democrats that Zorhan needs to win would be very liked to switch their support form Cumo of they knew some major establisment figures supported him.
Cynical posturing, same as hochul, but hochul's endorsement actually meams something as governor.
We should not talk about kamala or biden or anyone that forced them or hillary on us unless is to demand their ousters.

I'm sure it was based on her deep beliefs, and not a decision made by strategists for her. We are so fucked...

Why would she care. She could likely apply for political asylum in say France and leave the country and never have to work another day in her life. She's 60, she doesn't owe anyone anything. She won't run for president, and I doubt she wants to enter another 4 years of VP from 64-68 years old.
- Doesn't owe anyone anything? She kept prisoners in jail past their sentences to use them as slave labor. She literally owes reparations.
Don't look a gift horse on the mouth
- When you kick that horse in front of the gift when it is trying to drink you do.

Pretty tepid endorsement but somehow still better than many of her peers

She tried to pivot to others in the party...
- Just the worst possible instincts.
- No wonder she lost.
- Holy shit it's (cops are objects not people) doing the literal bare minimum to technically undermine the specific wording of one criticism. Holy shit.

Why is this news? She is not an elected official. She never breached 30% approval rating as vice president before her anointation.

Thanks for nothing Harris.

People who have lost to donald trump need to be permanently benched.

The DNC:✍️Women✍️and✍️POC✍️need✍️to✍️be✍️permanently✍️benched✍️
- Just because someone is a woman or minority does not mean that women or minorities will support them. Frankly it is rather insulting that you think it would.
- If they're middle of the road/both sides can work together democrats fuck em and pull them out the game
- It's a sad reality, but it's true that there are a lot of racists and sexists in the US, so nominating a person of colour or a woman as your candidate really does damage your electoral chances.
  I mean, a candidate as horrible as Donald Trump has a 100% win rate against women and 0% win rate against men.

In the most unenthusiastic way possible. But it's better than an outright rejection.

Wow look she does lean left!

Come ooon, she just tilted her head a little, no need to scare the poor woman xD
Only when she's not running for anything.
- It's my fan theory that she was only supporting Israel to get campaign donations and would have done what every politician does and abandoned her campaign promises. Iirc while VP she supported investigating Israel in order to nullify the law that says we have to supply Israel with arms.
  If you look at her past voting history, it aligns super close to Sanders.
Oh come on! This is just her yet again pandering to the left of the party to get votes. Why won’t she just grow a spine and standup for the values that she stood for. /s
- She knows how to get the lefts votes and she knows its not going to happen by simply half-endorsing mamdani. She has to say Israel is committing a genocide and endorse universal human rights or she has no chance in hell.
Yeah, but has she fixed her laugh though?
- Out here asking the real questions

Some support...

"Please, mum, may I have another serving of gruel?"

More? MORE?!

Wow that’s actually shocking.

She never was the dogshit that people made her out to be, it's not really that surprising in a way it would be for people like Pelosi or Chuck Shumer.
I mean it is the normal thing to endorse your party's person who won the primary, it is only a handful of real pieces of shit that are holding back on it. The problem is that those pieces of shit are highly placed in the Democratic party sadly enough.
Edit: Oof... I hadn't watched the actual video. Yeah, it's at least 30% dogshit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwt7hMaNaBQ
- Do you actually see that as an endorsement do you?

Will anyone be pursued to vote for him because of Harris's endorsement?

No, but it demonstrates once again that all your "lesser evil" dems will burn the party down before they allow a real alternative to fascism.
- Harris is the lesser evil politician. And she's endorsed him.

That's right. Bend the knee.