# How will the Republicans demonize Kamala Harris? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** kamala-harris\ **Created:** [July 23, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698 "2024-07-23T17:38:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/21 "2024-07-23T18:02:52Z")
The Republicans aren’t much into subtlety any more, so I expect the reasons given to oppose her will be openly direct and to the point: She is a Black Woman. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/22 "2024-07-23T18:03:03Z")
Here’s how a local _Democrat_ has demonized Harris, accusing her and Biden of pulling a “bait and switch.” FTR, this [letter to the editor](https://eedition.expressnews.com/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=52cf9cbd-183a-4334-927f-dc76ca61e973&share=true) makes no sense to me as the writer plans to vote for Harris anyway. > I gave what for me was a substantial amount of money out of my Social > Security check to help reelect President Joe Biden. I did not give it to the > Kamala Harris campaign. I would never have donated to her. > > Any reasonable person would have read those pleas for donations and > thought they were donating to the Biden campaign and no one else. I feel like > I’ve been a victim of the old con “bait and switch.” > > Will I vote for Harris over Trump? Absolutely. Would I ever donate to her > campaign? Absolutely not. I want my donations back. Is there an attorney > anywhere willing to take on a lawsuit over this? > > One really pissed off Democrat. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/23 "2024-07-23T18:05:40Z")
Let’s not forget the endless and childish name-calling, and downright slanderous remarks by Trump. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/24 "2024-07-23T18:06:46Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Yep, she’s a miserable childless cat lady. It’s time to see a sea of blue “MCCL” baseball hats on left-leaning American women from coast to coast. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/25 "2024-07-23T18:10:19Z")
They’ll probably use her marijuana strictness against her, even though the Rs themselves oppose marijuana. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/26 "2024-07-23T18:20:56Z")
> [@Chingon](#): > > What they are best at: say she’s “not intelligent” or outright dumb and only got her job through DEI because of her skin color and gender. - Point out that Clarence Thomas got his job for the same reasons. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/27 "2024-07-23T18:22:56Z")
So the smart thing would be to ignore her gender and race and concentrate purely on the San Francisco aspect. She’s a San Francisco radical! She turned San Francisco into a third world city don’t let her do that to America! But nothing I’ve seen from them shows them doing that. They could help themselves they’ve gone straight to racist misogyny. That angle works pretty much exclusively on people who are voting Trump whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/28 "2024-07-23T18:23:37Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > So the smart thing would be to ignore her gender and race and concentrate purely on the San Francisco aspect That would be far too woke for them. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/29 "2024-07-23T18:26:08Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > That angle works pretty much exclusively on people who are voting Trump whatever. Sadly, it clearly doesn’t just only work on Trump voters. Racism isn’t limited to Republicans, Democrats have enough of it in their base to lose national elections. But maybe this time it’ll backfire? ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/30 "2024-07-23T19:01:43Z")
“DEI” will be the buzzword of the day. Diversity, equity, and inclusion: Kamala Harris is a token selection, who has no skills of her own, and is mediocre at everything she does, is only in the position she’s in because of a desire to promote a woman who is both black and Asian. It’s weak sauce, and reeking of sexism and racism, but it’s what they’ve got. > **["She was a DEI hire": Right-wingers slammed for responding to Kamala Harris...](https://www.salon.com/2024/07/23/she-was-a-dei-hire-right-wingers-slammed-for-responding-to-kamala-harris-with-and-misogyny/)** > > Republican reaction to Harris rise shows they can't be normal about a woman of color. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/31 "2024-07-23T19:10:39Z")
The rejoinder is, “All Vice Presidents are DEI hires. It’s called “Balancing the ticket,” and it has been practiced since literally the 1800s.” Seriously. You think Sara Palin was chosen for her foreign policy wisdom? Harris was a former prosecutor and current Senator when Biden chose her. That’s who you pick to run against a felon. If you think Harris is such a lightweight, why is Trump terrified of debating her? ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/32 "2024-07-23T19:24:33Z")
I have actually seen one republican call her a “San Francisco liberal”. That’s about the only slur that might work. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/33 "2024-07-23T19:25:29Z")
The most common one I’m seeing on Twitter is just a bunch of black people saying they won’t vote for her. The next most common is women making very misogynist posts about how women can’t lead or women voters are stupid. Next up is claiming she’s not black, because she’s Jamaican/Indian. And the last I’ll mention is conspiracies about her having done something to Biden. Usually that she somehow stole it away from him while he’s completely unaware he’s not running. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/34 "2024-07-23T19:30:24Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > “DEI” will be the buzzword of the day. What I’ve seen in a lot of Facebook posts (not specifically about Harris, but about DEI in general) is that “DEI” really stands for “Didn’t Earn It.” Expect that to be repeated, as if it’s the height of hilarity, multiple times from now until Election Day. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/35 "2024-07-23T19:32:21Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > The most common one I’m seeing on Twitter is just a bunch of black people saying they won’t vote for her. > > The next most common is women making very misogynist posts about how women can’t lead or women voters are stupid. > > Next up is claiming she’s not black, because she’s Jamaican/Indian. This leads into what I was planning to post, namely that there will be a two pronged attack against her. On the one side there will be the attacks from the right working in racism, sexism and immigration. But there will also likely be a more clandestine attack to try to discourage the Democratic base from voting for her. This will consist of armies of fake social media accounts arguing that she isn’t Liberal or black enough, that as part of the Biden administration that she is responsible for what is happening in Gaza, and that her prosecution background makes her a fascist. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/36 "2024-07-23T19:42:41Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > You think Sara Palin was chosen for her foreign policy wisdom? Well, she _could_ see Russia from her back porch. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/37 "2024-07-23T19:48:08Z")
I’ve already seen how low some will go as far as implying sexual abuse in pornographicnterms. I won’t repeat it here or anywhere. I Block that user too. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/38 "2024-07-23T19:49:07Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Is ‘she’s not really black’, a thing they’re attacking her for? Yep- [https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.364M6FF](https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.364M6FF) _Immediately following President Joe Biden’s decision to end his 2024 re-election bid and endorse Kamala Harris, a wave of disinformation targeted the vice president’s race and eligibility for office. Born in the US state of California to immigrants from Jamaica and India, Harris meets the constitutional requirements for the presidency, contrary to the claims circulating online._ Also the whole “she’s not really an American” crap. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Here’s how a local _Democrat_ has demonized Harris It is easy to _say_ you are a democrat. And when I donated it was to “Biden/Harris”. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Well, she _could_ see Russia from her back porch. This is a fake quote, what she really said is that one could see Russia from Alaska- which on a good clear day- it true. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/39 "2024-07-23T19:52:03Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > This is a fake quote, what she really said is that one could see Russia from Alaska- which on a good clear day- it true. And the reason the fake quote took hold is because the real quote, while, true, is also absurd. It’s completely irrelevant that one ice-encrusted uninhabited rock is within line of sight of another ice-encrusted uninhabited rock, with one of them being nominally under Palin’s jurisdiction and the other nominally under Putin’s. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/40 "2024-07-23T19:54:21Z")
Didn’t you watch the footage from the rally in Pennsylvania? You didn’t see the “Joe and the Hoe gotta go” shirts? It’s all about how she slept her way to the top. One good thing about a Harris nomination is all of the insults and arguments against are tired and old already. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698.md?page=3)