Kamala Harris' surprising early exit from the presidential race reflects the complicated racial and gender dynamics of the 2020 campaign
When California Senator Kamala Harris announced she was suspending her campaign for president on Tuesday, she was quickly met with an outpouring of support and admiration. Many praised the historic nature of her candidacy; she was seeking to become the first black woman to win a major party’s presidential nomination. Others mourned the loss of her particular perspective in the Democratic primary field.
When the remaining Democrats next take the debate stage in Los Angeles this month, there’s a real chance that no people of color will be on it. While candidates like Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, entrepreneur Andrew Yang and Sen. Cory Booker still have time to qualify, the situation is not where many Democrats hoped to find themselves, particularly in comparison to, say, the Republican debate at this time in 2015, which featured a woman, a black candidate and two Cuban-Americans.
Story continuesIt has been the honor of my life to be your candidate. We will keep up the fight. pic.twitter.com/RpZhx3PENlHarris’s comments came after several wealthy candidates jumped into the 2020 race in the last few weeks.
“The implicit racism and sexism of ‘electability’ is deeply damaging to democracy,” Leah Greenberg, co-executive director of the progressive group Indivisible, put it bluntly on Twitter, after news of Harris’ departure broke.“As a Black woman, I know from personal experience that Kamala has to work three times as hard as some of the other candidates in this race to get half as far,” Aimee Allison, founder of She the People, a group that promotes women of color, said in a statement.
“Donald Trump represents a real threat to the lives of these communities. And so people want to have a candidate that they think will win,” Carter said. “If the Democratic Party is sort of tepid on some of these candidates, then the public will be as well.”
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