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Kamala Harris’ ascension to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket has energized local Democrats and spurred many to do what they can to get voters in crucial battleground states to turn out and vote for the Bay Area native.
It is precisely because San Francisco and California are so overwhelmingly blue that local political leaders are calling on the area’s Democrats to reach out or even travel to not-so-blue states. “One of my goals as chair of the San Francisco Democratic party has been to make sure that we use our numbers for good, and that means getting out of San Francisco to help where we can,” Tung said.
An example of that early enthusiasm and quick mobilizing by local Democrats took place Monday at City Hall. Less than 24 hours after Biden stepped aside and Harris announced she would run to succeed him, party members from across San Francisco’s shades of blue quickly organized a rally at The City’s Civic Center.
“She’s going to inspire a whole new generation of voters to turn out,” Ace Smith, a longtime political advisor of Harris who’s based in San Francisco, told The Examiner. “She’s going to do exactly what Donald Trump did in 2016 in reverse, which is, you’re going to see the voter pool grow in incredibly significant ways in all these places.”Harris has extensive experience in San Francisco and California politics.
A return to Trump could mean a return to a combative posture between The City and the federal government. While Trump was president, the two sides clashed over The City’s protections for immigrants. And San Francisco was among the jurisdictions that challenged the travel ban Trump imposed on seven majority-Muslim countries.
Harris has “continued to be a presence for people” in San Francisco, even after she moved on, Tung said. Harris wasted little time highlighting abortion as a key issue, promising Tuesday in Milwaukee, during her first rally, that as president she would sign into law a Congressional bill “to restore reproductive freedom” once it hits her desk., leaving the decision to restrict the procedure up to the states while linking such laws to the 14th Amendment’s equal-protection clause.
Other abortion-rights groups, including Reproductive Freedom for All, have also thrown their support behind Harris. The filibuster rule in the U.S. Senate imposes a 60-vote threshold to advance legislation to a vote in the chamber, and the Democratic caucus currently contains 51 members. Earlier this month, only
“So many people were going to sit this election out — Democrats — whether from Ohio or Texas or Michigan or Virginia,” she said.
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