Via – The Daily Mail UK

Joe Biden‘s choice of Kamala Harris as his running mate was hailed on Tuesday as a historic first for women of color, but some warn her record as a tough prosecutor could dent her appeal with two key constituencies – black voters and liberals.

Shortly after Biden announced Harris would join him on the ticket in the November presidential election, several left wing progressives in the Democrat party criticized his decision. 

‘Well, there you have it. @JoeBiden gives the middle finger to progressives, #BlackLivesMatter protesters, and black voters under the age of 50,’ Status Coup co-founder Jordan Chariton wrote in a tweet. 

Journalist, Walker Bragman, shared: ‘Crime bill author Joe Biden selects “top cop” Kamala Harris for VP as racial justice and police abolition protests continue across the country.’

And while Bernie Sanders, who had been one of Biden’s rivals for the Democratic nomination, congratulated Harris on Twitter, saying she ‘understands what it takes to stand up for working people’, several of his supporters disagreed with the decision. 

Briahna Joy Gray, who served as Sanders’ national press secretary, wrote: ‘We are in the midst of the largest protest movement in American history, the subject of which is excessive policing, and the Democratic Party chose a “top cop” and the author of the Joe Biden crime bill to save us from Trump. 

‘The contempt for the base is, wow.’

Progressive commentator, Kyle Kulinski, shared: ‘Biden going with the strategically brilliant move of picking somebody for VP who is despised by both the right and the left.’

In a joint statement, RootsAction and Progressive Democrats of America wrote that Harris ‘failed for years to hold police accountable for gross misconduct in California, then touted her commitment to police accountability in the wake of George Floyd’s murder’. 

Journalist Michael Tracey called Biden’s selection a ‘nightmarishly bad pick in every way’

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