# Kamala Harris and the runup to the 2024 Presidential Election {No more on Guns}

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**Created:** [July 22, 2024, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571 "2024-07-22T00:39:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/295 "2024-08-06T19:15:45Z")

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Because I think it’s interesting, I’m transferring over the conversation begun by @RickJay and @kenobi_65 in the VP thread regarding what Harris’ “3-5 clear, easily explained, unambiguous promises that constitute an affirmative intent to do something” ought to be:

> [@Harris VP choice for 2024 is Governor Tim Walz (Minnesota)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harris-vp-choice-for-2024-is-governor-tim-walz-minnesota/1004552/1435):
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> IMO, at least two of those need to specifically be around economic issues (inflation, housing prices) and immigration/migrants.

And I’ll disagree a bit. 😁 She certainly needs an economic message, but should not frame it directly as a response to inflation which people tend to blame on the current Administration. And she absolutely should not be pushing affirmative promises on the border. Any time she spends talking about the border is a gift to Republicans.

Her top bullet point bar none should be protecting women’s bodily autonomy. Republicans have gone to some places since _Dobbs_ that make even right-leaning voters blanche – like targeting IVF and contraception – and pretty much every election since that decision has showed that protecting a woman’s rights over her own reproductive choices is a winner for Democrats.

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