Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program"The Dean Obeidallah Show" and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @DeanObeidallah. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN.
California Sen. Kamala Harris, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, gave a master class on Saturday in what real leadership looks like. It was a refreshing contrast to what we have seen from President Donald Trump, who thus far has refused to take responsibility for his mistakes. On Friday, Harris was campaigning in Londonderry, New Hampshire, when a person in the audience, who identified as being from India, remarked,"Somehow a racist bigot gets into the White House and then he says if you're not my color you need to go back to your own country." He added,"So I am scared for this country. I am scared for the people of color in this country." Dean ObeidallahThen came the question that sparked controversy.
Opinion CNN hates any white person that is not liberal
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Opinion Look at her record in California!
Opinion More Demo Crap
Opinion She did who
Opinion Did it include how you could get ahead by being a mattress back?
Opinion Look means nothing skills and talents makes great leadership like Trump.
Opinion LMAO
Opinion Hahahahaha. Let's ask an innocent person she tried to railroad how much tweets matter.
Opinion 😂😂😂 you’re kidding right? Her? Lol NOPE!
Opinion Kamel toe is Stu ped, come on
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Opinion Lol
Opinion Could you find a worse picture of her.
Opinion A newt could show more leadership than trump.
Opinion Give me a break! Lmao
Opinion Trump is the killer of the American people and he still wants them to vote for him, he got no respect for human life he doesn't have an intention of gun control for US plesae let get him out
Opinion CNN Socialist=Dem=Liberal hate news Kamala Harris is just another Socialist bent on government control of everything.
Opinion You guys accidentally type Kamala Harris as giving a “master class on leader” Funny!
Opinion Kamala should be the last person to give a master class on anything related to.leadership ethics or moral character. One should research facts in her past before raising her to her Grandioseness .
Opinion Leadership! She has4% in the polls , maybe it’s leadership in banning straws and hamburgers
Opinion Whether she is your candidate of choice or not I am sure no one is surprised.
Opinion What's her health care policy this week ?
Opinion Yep hit the road Carmella
Opinion Who?
Opinion Well why don’t you lead the people of California in solving the homeless problem and sanctuary cities etc...
Opinion Cocky leadership brought her down and has failed to bring her back up. Women has to go the extra mile. She walked the wrong mile.
Opinion I don't think too many people are impressed with Ms. Harris leadership. She is still behind in the polls. think she is fourth in the polls. She believes in 'Cocky' as in the debate. People were not impressed.
Opinion So what has she done to demonstrate leadership? I’ve seen Trump build skyscrapers in NYC, rebuild an ice skating rink, has had books written about him, built casinos, gone completely in debt and now today one of the richest men in America and now president. Trump triumphs!
Opinion 🤥. Says who 🤥. realDonaldTrump JudgeJeanine foxandfriends The fake news thinking to make a heros of the fake politicians, do not forget to give her the debate questions as you did with the master thieve Hillary. CNN the US people’s enemy number 1.
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Opinion Real leadership isn’t KamalaHarris it’s marwilliamson .....now you want to talk about true Hitlerism by telling us what we can and cannot eat and have total control of our lives then yes KamalaHarris is the truest Hitler type leader.
Opinion I'd say DeanObeidallah is easily impressed; or naive; or fanboying; or trying to peddle influence he doesn't have. Or, could just be that he's still grieving from 2016. The hate is strong.
Opinion She is a loser and only palatable due to the left media barrage of the Trumpster who is by far a leader
Opinion This is leadership?
Opinion Zzzz
Opinion She doesn't have 'it' tho. WHEN will media-types like Dean figure this out. Voters for most part already have.
Opinion Sources say, what did she do ? Sleep with another woman’s husband ? That’s ALL she’s ever “mastered”. That and LYING. cnn learn to code you’re a COMPLETE JOKE - sources say news 2019 zuckerisaPEDOPHILE
Opinion Nearly everything cnn post is opinion! So what is the point of having a Opinion page?
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Opinion I can’t believe she is getting a pass for agreeing and laughing at the “retarted” comment is that
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Opinion “Master class”. 😂😂😂. CNN, you’re a joke.
Opinion She makes me want to 🤮. Trump never said one word about skin color, if you hate America get the hell out. You people are disgusting. Twisting words to meet your own agenda. TRUMP 2020
Opinion In her dreams !!
Opinion I don’t believe she has governed anything more than her household...even there she struggled.
Opinion Kamala's chameleon politics is ever present. She must clearly state where her loyalties lie . Kamala needs to appeal to all Americans not her racial heritage parentage .
Opinion Only CNN fake news would think this.
Opinion And what has she ever done again? Please.
Opinion Speaking and actions are different...realDonaldTrump is showing actions...KamalaHarris is just talking trying to get in the action...we heard all these pep talks before...Democrats have taken enough...tell Kamala section 8 is like it is because of Dem...projectsaveadopeboy
Opinion But she is a crook!
Opinion Maybe in a perfect world.
Opinion More fake news!
Opinion Just what we need A black female President?! NOT!!!!
Opinion She’s full of shit saying she didn’t hear what he said but then again dumbocrats are even dumber if they actually believe her so I wouldn’t be surprised if they do
Opinion Hahaha. She’s a joke.
Opinion Don’t trust her.
Opinion CNN just keeps me in stitches....🤣😂🤣🤣😂
Opinion This is a fluff cake candidate. Her own Party and haters ignore her!!
Opinion What mattress and bed sheets did she recommend on her “Leadership” abilities?
Opinion Did her master class include how she slept her way to the top? Just asking for a friend....
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Opinion Good 4 her
Opinion No doubt a “contrast” to the realDonaldTrump. She’s a Dem from California. I’d say her ideas are “foreign” to the working class.
Opinion She looks Moronic.
Opinion Um, no.
Opinion Kopmala ain't it y'all.
Opinion She showed real leadership with buying into republican talking points as recent as the climate town hall & recent debate
Opinion I’ve seen her in action Definitely no leadership skills
Opinion Trump is not 'governing' anybody or anything, he is playing Big Boss doing a 'you're fired!' reality show for his Base.
Opinion 🙄 and so?
Opinion nobiden
Opinion ...and by the way, easy to say after the fact. Contrast that with true statesmanship, like when then POTUS candidate, Sen. John McCain defended Pres. O’Bama from the ignorance of a woman at a McCain rally (MeghanMcCain). That’s real leadership.
Opinion Now that’s funny !!!!
Opinion Pandering is not leadership
Opinion Wow, are slurs presidential or a contrast to Trump now?
Opinion She is a priveliged phony w a phony narrative. She prosecuted poor Blacks for MJ, & “ chuckled” about her own use. She had affairs,raised her profile w gossip & lies to nearly destroy a family, & folded like a tent when challenged by TulsiGabbard . Perfect fit for CNN. POTUS
Opinion I'd rather live in Russia than have a President Kamala Harris.
Opinion Gee...an opinion piece from CNN on how bad Trump is. This is my shocked face 😯. Every 'news' piece from CNN is opinion.
Opinion Good God. What a joke.
Opinion That’s so retardant 😂😂😂
Opinion She laughed at “retarded” jokes from her constituents. I wouldn’t call that solid leadership. CNNisfakenews
Opinion Fake news cnn
Opinion Hahahaha she sucks
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Opinion Here comes some more CNN opinions: 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩
Opinion TRUMP 2020
Opinion What a joke! Had Trump said this than claimed to not “hear” the comment you’d rake him over the coals! Your bias is getting worse by the day! CNN the true enemy of the people! One question for you so-called reporters that work there: How do you look in the mirror every day?
Opinion Another example of the media covering up stupidity and calling it genius.
Opinion She is no leader..she is a fraud...declining fast!!
Opinion How do you give a masterclass about leadership when your district looks like a warzone....these people are stupid.
Opinion She is the founder of Sore Losers Under Trump.
Opinion Oh get serious CNN.
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Opinion She laughed at someone using the phrase 'mentally retarded' then lied about it. Some leadership.
Opinion Doubt that
Opinion She sure did, she was ok with a supporter calling the President 'mentally retarded' and responding by saying 'well said'. 'Real Leadership', you called it CNNisfakenews? Can you imagine Pres Trump doing the same thing? You'd have that clip playing 24/7
Opinion 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂another CNN attempt to spin the facts
Opinion Seems she really did hear the words that she said, 'I didn't hear....' 🤔
Opinion YANGYANG
Opinion CNN’s last journalist integrity: “Someone please help me! please!”
Opinion Attention America: CNN is a Fake News Network
Opinion How? By lying about not hearing the 'mental retardation' comment when she acknowledged the comment then laughed about it?
Opinion KamalaHarris true leadership here pot head Harris. You plan to make the 🇺🇸 look like California will fail.
Opinion Real leadership? What a joke this clown is...
Opinion Leaders lead- others ban straws
Opinion lol zero chance
Opinion CNN the clown News Network the right arm of Democrats, Kamala Harris as president would be much worse than Hillary Clinton, yep CNN promotes her. Is CNN part of the swamp? Hannity at 9 p.m. tonight will have a very interesting show on Fox.
Opinion trump’s leadershit
Opinion If you consider actual totalitarianism leadership. She’s already said she’ll try undermine the constitution by executive order many times. Leave it to the Communist News Network to support the most leftist authoritarian candidate.
Opinion Ms Harris is an empty suit who hopes to giggle her way to the presidency. It may have worked when she was humping Willie, but it’s a poor strategy when running for POTUS.
Opinion We already know what that is. Getting on her knees.
Opinion Oh please.... Kamala is a joke!
Opinion Not difficult, I would have thought.
Opinion little cnn stuck in bias quick sand again.Until you're firmly control of day& night situational events that occur everyday as President, you'll never know the pressures you encounter & what decisions you make that affects millions of lives! Harris stop wasting our time!
Opinion Bias much?
Opinion What a joke--written by a partisan hack.
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Opinion Is this what Democrats calling leadership?
Opinion We all know about her leadership!
Opinion Clinton News Network
Opinion No she didn't.
Opinion 😳🤣🤣🤣🤣
Opinion She seems like she's smoking pot most the time.
Opinion Oh look. CNN trying to change the course of history again with straight up lies. Kamala Harris is a moron who will never be president of anything.
Opinion Yeah, that's a joke right?
Opinion You people wouldn’t know leadership if it bit you on the a$$.
Opinion The new darling of CNN.
Opinion Leadership in how she got her start in politics?
Opinion Did she include the typical Democrat pandering for votes?
Opinion Well there’s an objective headline🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 FakeNewsCNN DemocratMedia
Opinion Lol
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Opinion Vote red instead. Voting blue is for socialism
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Opinion Was that before or after she laughed at a guy calling Trump mental retarded then lied about it?
Opinion 😂😂
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Opinion 😂😂😂😂 “Master class”
Opinion Sure 🙄
Opinion All the dem candidates behave much more presidential it’s not just Harris. Trump is an abhorrent disgrace
Opinion Is trump a mentally retardant
Opinion 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩
Opinion Isn’t the word master a racist word? 🤣
Opinion So, CNN is endorsing Harris.
Opinion Well cnnisfakenews and the only person they hate more than themselves is President Trump, so this kind of bias bullshit is expected
Opinion She just lied about not hearing the guy in the first place. The second time lying about not hearing something.
Opinion Right, if you think leadership includes laughing at a joke using the word “retarded”
Opinion 🤡
Opinion Nice try CNN. Your middle initial is still a lie.. Ask her where her Kavanaugh witnesses are (still waiting), and why her CA records were conveniently erased.
Opinion 😂😂😂😂. Yup. If you can dance your way into Putin's heart, she'll do well. 🙄
Opinion Hey! CNN, is KamalaHarris still pretending to be black? YES!
Opinion LOLOL. One last CNN effort to get Ms. Horizontal off her back? Nice try CNN. LOLOL
Opinion Man CNN used to be something everyone wanted to watch.
Opinion She lied. But to cnn that’s Presidential? .
Opinion Like the way she treated Justice Kavanaugh? Or the lies she tells about her younger days?
Opinion Lol what a joke, CNN and the Democrats literally have nothing to run on. Embarrassing.
Opinion No, she didn't
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Opinion Bwahahahahaha!
Opinion There is nothing in the article and the video that supports your claim. Only statements with few facts. If that is what she and you claim to be the truth neither she nor you are any better than Trump. Maybe more polite but no different otherwise
Opinion CNN and Kamala Harris
Opinion Master class? By calling someone “mentally retarded”? Yes she is the image of tact and decorum. Holy cow the delusion is strong
Opinion CNN you still are fake news
Opinion In every tweet, proves why they are the leftist lapdogs and fake news kings.
Opinion This is news? Wtf is wrong with you CNN
Opinion Keep trying. Lol
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Opinion CNN using an “op-Ed” as news again! Nope! She heard the guy and didn’t do a thing about his derogatory remark until there was push back! She’s a liar! Harris will agree with anyone to get a vote! Willie Brown can attest to that!
Opinion Trump continues to be a national embarrassment.
Opinion 🤡🤡🤡
Opinion Lol. FakeNews
Opinion 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣...
Opinion Harris is a joke, just as much as Trump is. The only difference is she’s a par for the course politician that lies to you without blantently saying it while true just outright says it.
Opinion Sorry but that's a very low bar
Opinion Kneepads....
Opinion She thinks calling people mentally retarded is funny. Not surprised CNN calls that behavior real leadership.
Opinion Master class in real leadership. Good one 😂
Opinion Was it the tweet where she ran away from the things she said?
Opinion ✨🌏❤️💪🏼🙏🏼 DeanObeidallah
Opinion People want Trump gone forever. They are saying that he is not the leader of the free world. They are saying that he is just a clown 🤡.
Opinion The Dean of Comedy. Reliable Sources, indeed!
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Opinion Another unbiased story
Opinion So her reply to a man who uses a word (“retarded”) many find offensive is “Well said. Well said.” Then when she’s called out on it, she DENIES hearing the word. Yep, definitely presidential material.
Opinion Bullshit. narrative
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Opinion CNN and its pundits are all sick
Opinion thank you dean
Opinion Consistency is often associated with leadership. , you meant Kamala Harris consistently lies about she thinks and believes whenever she gets a negative reaction, right?
Opinion She, nor , know what real leadership is. Sit down.
Opinion By sleeping with a married man
Opinion Leadership isn’t advancing your career from under a desk or on your back.
Opinion Thank you for your honesty and not trying to deflect. We so desperately need transparency from our leaders. I feel so disrespected.
Opinion Just because you say so, CNN?
Opinion Why is the media ignoring the Essence poll when it is black women who will be the deciding voters in the primary
Opinion Booming economy, lowest unemployment, trying to secure the borders, peace w N Korea, ISIS territory defeated, strong military, enemies think twice. That's bad leadership? Maybe to the sick warped drug induced minds of the demented leftist libs.
Opinion Talk is chip, Easy to say she has a better leader ship if she was the president she be in a big chaos, and her leadership goes down the sewage pipe like California with all the homeless shifting in the street and piecing all over the place and that called leadership that garbage.
Opinion Form over substance is a recipe for mediocrity at best.
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Opinion Although she's playing her cards, she could be one of the reasonable nominees.
Opinion I did not hear him marriage wrecker Harris lyingly says. 😂😂😂😂BULLSHIT of the highest order
Opinion Elmo has more leadership than Harris. I can't erase the thought of her spreading her legs in the air
Opinion Did kamala create any jobs with her own money?
Opinion 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂marriage wrecking Harris
Opinion Lost ?
Opinion I just yawned. I’m going to bed on that note 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Opinion You mean when she condoned using the terms “mentally retarded”? Cause she did that this week AND YOU DON’T even report on it. But hey, trump, right? SinsOfOmission just one more reason more than 50% of Americans consider the FakeNewsMedia to be the EnemyOfThePeople
Opinion President Trump loves his country.....love means never having to say you’re sorry. Trump speaks from the heart, Democrats speak from the head...all calculated stuff. Vote Trump 2020.
Opinion Your opinion on leadership means nothing coming from outrage CNN 😂😂
Opinion Need to have an automatic alarm system notifying everyone on the planet of the exact moment when a generally accepted word or phrase becomes politically incorrect.
Opinion You mean when she laughed at people with disabilities?
Opinion She’s the classic mean girl from high school archetype
Opinion Media is never able to understand or grasp Trump.
Opinion Real leadership such as incarcerating innocent people and refusing to acknowledge those mistakes. She's just as bad as many Republican prosecutors and just as authoritarian.
Opinion You truly are one sided. If you can’t call her out on this you are truest fake news.
Opinion You have to be kidding me. This is your headline. Wow.
Opinion CNN is a ratings wreck. You dolts shouldn't even be on teevee.
Opinion Too bad her campaign is on the ropes
Opinion 😂😂 that's Gold
Opinion So why is she in single digits in your polls?
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Opinion We don't need her fake bs right now
Opinion Numerology
Opinion So now Kamala is buying advertorial space to boost her dwindling chance to be the president 😂
Opinion 😂 😆 😝 fake laugh at the end of everything yep masterclass
Opinion Kamala Harris? A master class in leadership? How much did the Obamas pay you to write this?
Opinion DeanObeidallah must be a complete and utter moron to write this. But, he does write for CNN opinion.
Opinion I thought her campaign was basically dead
Opinion BIG BIRD has more leadership qualities than Trump
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Opinion More BS from the Democrats mouthpiece - the least trusted news source
Opinion Really? I want some of what your smoking because you are having hallucinations.
Opinion 'Master'.....class?
Opinion Harris shown more leadership thats rich. Should bring up how she fucked up the DA system in California. Putting innocent people away just to make money and the tainted crime lab
Opinion Leadership like laughing at someone who calls the president mentally retarded? 'Well said. Well said.'
Opinion Real leadership? From a woman who slept her way to the AG position You guys wouldn’t know leadership if you fell over it and it then bit you on the leg. CNN - propaganda channel!!!!
Opinion However good she may be, one thing seems to be certain that US is very polarised and it seems almost impossible that any woman will ever get elected to the WhiteHouse
Opinion CNN Opinion - Now that carries a lot of weight - NOT!
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Opinion When Harris was 12, she and her sister moved with their mother to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where she accepted a position doing research at Jewish General Hospital and teaching at McGill University.
Opinion Who’d she sleep with this time?
Opinion One of these people wants to be a dictator the other is the president. Harris can piss off
Opinion What can we expect out of Donald is not leadership. But a leader in telling lies all the time.
Opinion CNN you need to stop influencing the election by posting these kind of things.. We all know your candidate is Sen Harris.
Opinion Whatever
Opinion Was this when she showed the leadership of supporting calling the President retarded? That leadership?
Opinion Only minions would or could believe you horse manure.
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Opinion He is mentally ill, no doubt about that! Whatever meds he is on clearly are not working!!!!
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Opinion Funniest lie I've heard all day.
Opinion Clown News Network=
Opinion No masters class. How insane. She’s about as unpresidential as a candidate could get.
Opinion FakeNews Propaganda
Opinion Didn’t she sleep her way to AG of California 😂😂
Opinion But Harris will never be president and her closest isn’t exactly clean either. Nasty creature she is. Taking money for rotten plea deals. Lousy prosecutor. Lying. The worst of all is taking a swing at Joe Biden. Hell No to her.
Opinion But — She doesn’t recognize the toxicity of the R word? NO THANKS!!
Opinion Kamala was caught. She's only sorry that she got caught, not for what she said.
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Opinion She’s not the best candidate but she’s better than what we have now
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Opinion Her district is doing great.
Opinion KamalaHarris giving a ‘master class’ on leadership is akin to giving one on journalism, Obama on competence, the Clintons on integrity, Dems on democracy, Antifa on fascism, Planned Parenthood on parenthood, PeteButtigieg on science or religion, ewarren on honesty.
Opinion “Master class”
Opinion “Master Class” 🙄 The CNN Propaganda machine is at it again.
Opinion How come her poll numbers suck , along with CNN'S
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Opinion Is this a paid advertisement? If not, it should be reported as an “in kind” campaign contribution.
Opinion Kamala, leadership?
Opinion She looks a little confused 🤪🤪
Opinion Harris is a very nasty person
Opinion That's why California looks like dump
Opinion When are you going to employ journalist instead of Democratic mouth pieces
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Opinion CNN doesn’t even try to look fair and balanced - ever.
Opinion It would have been better if she had done it then and there!!
Opinion There is nothing Presidential when using a tweet.
Opinion More biased news from CNN.
Opinion LOL CNN is fake news 100%
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Opinion She literally made fun of mentally ill people... wow cnn how low is the bar now ?
Opinion I’m sure Yal have an intern alerting the entire building whenever trump tweets something
Opinion Why is every reporter on CNN so stupid ?
Opinion Huh?
Opinion Willie Brown says- Well said!
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Opinion She wont win the nom
Opinion Only one? She doesn’t sound consistent.
Opinion Great I knew she has it on her. The irony is that Biden has one piece of the puzzle and Harris has the other They are very well suited for each other
Opinion Oh please every time she gets in trouble she either did hear or understand the question there was nothing masterful about it. This happened on Friday and until she was called on it she didn’t say a damn word. She laughed at the time
Opinion Your failing network is not even trying to hide the bias anymore. Maybe you can learn from Fox News as to what real journalism looks like.
Opinion She laughed too. Ask her to explain what she was laughing at if not the MR “joke.” She failed this test of leadership.
Opinion Said as 2 journalists stand criminal trial in California, charged by Harris after exposing the baby part selling operation of her Planned Parenthood benefactors. She hunts and prosecutes journalists who expose her friends. The name for that style of governance? Fascism.
Opinion You mean the candidate who brags about smoking weed but she also encarcirted people for smoking weed?
Opinion Not interested in CNN Opinion, just real news please. And how about some good news, not just bad news?
Opinion = FakeNews
Opinion Cc realDonaldTrump
Opinion Personally, as a dem, I am still reading and listening before I make up my mind, but Sen Harris just keeps jumping up there. Smart, gutsy, caring, and would give 45 a real run for his money. (if he really has any - who knows)
Opinion If this is real news, I like it! 😂
Opinion Real leadership is locking up minorities for marijuana while using it herself?
Opinion Stop trying to make Kamala happen. She's never going to happen.
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Opinion Who picked this picture for my girl? Really do better.
Opinion This is pathetic. Harris obviously herd, laughed at, and agreed with the slur. If this was about a group whose oppression you care about, you would get it.
Opinion Good she can go make coffee while the menfolk conduct business. 😆😜😂🤣
Opinion I’m guessing she didn’t back it up with a tour of her state to show her true lack of leadership results 😂😂😂😂
Opinion Lying is great leadership compared to what trump does. What?
Opinion She made an excuse and said she didn’t hear the guy when she clearly did. “an apple is an apple” you journalismed all over the place
Opinion The only master class she can give is on her back with her ankles by her ears.
Opinion Here it is, —if you want items for FREE, —**vote for ME. —If U wish U weren’t a citizen —**vote for ME — if U think government has all the answers —**vote for ME
Opinion Are you serious? She completely screwed up and acts like she didn't hear it. This is your example of leadership? You are really trying hard and perpetuate hatred.
Opinion Cnn is garbage.
Opinion If Democrats understood what real leadership looked like Biden wouldn't be polling as high as he is and Harris wouldn't even be in the race. And the left considers themselves to be smarter than everyone else. 😂🤣
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