Vice President Kamala Harris gave the public its first real look into her nascent presidential campaign with a stop at her organizationā€™s headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware on Monday night.

Harrisā€™ first applause line came when she discussed her background as California attorney general and as a courtroom prosecutor.

ā€œIn those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds,ā€ she said, earning cackles while she beamed, clearly enjoying the joke. ā€œPredators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trumpā€™s type.ā€

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    Yeah. This is getting me slightly excited again. Iā€™m an independent voter and have never voted Democrat but I may just well do that this time. Couldnā€™t stomach Biden but she seems to actually know what the hell she is talking about. Please go after Congressional term limits, tax the crap out of the rich, and reform lobbying with solid game plans. Talk is cheap.

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      I have a lot of concern about how progressive she will actually be - her pre-VP track record doesnā€™t seem great to me, but sheā€™s not Trump and I really hope I can feel OK about voting for her second term. She gets my vote this time because Trump, but if sheā€™s going to sprint right back to 2016-era corporatist Democrat behavior then all weā€™ve done is delay the inevitable rightward creep and continue to enable rampant corporate greed.

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        Her voting record in the Senate is actually super progressive. I donā€™t think thereā€™s much to worry about there.

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          I donā€™t think thereā€™s much to worry about there.

          Despite that Iā€™ve spent most of my Lemmy time today defending my criticisms of Harris or Dems in general, I truly want you to be right, and I hope thatā€™s what weā€™ll see when she starts influencing policy as President. (Assuming she wins, and I have a good feeling she will unless something truly batshit happens between now and then.)