Kamala Harris backs Zohran Mamdani in New York mayoral race

“I support the Democrat in the race,” Talk about a backhanded compliment.

It's about damn time.

Please don't. Just go away

Pretty tepid endorsement but somehow still better than many of her peers

She tried to pivot to others in the party...

I'm a actually not that cynical of it. In her book she was critical of who the establishment in the Biden administration treated her.

Worse case is she's endorsing him to make her self look good. But honestly I think it's great she did endorse him. It will go a long way with causal/centrist democrats and centerist independents.

It's kinda how I feel about corporations supporting good things. People will point out that they're only doing it for money or whatever, but I don't care. If they all start supporting and normalizing good things, I don't care that it started for dumb reasons.
- I studied environmental sciences in school, so the metaphor I think of is that of indicator species, which provide information about the state of an ecosystem. For example, the presence of mayflies indicates good water quality, since poor water quality disrupts part of their lifecycle. Similarly, corporations supporting good things indicates that they feel it is profitable to do so. It indicates the state of public sentiment, and I don't see how that's anything but good news.
  Same with Harris (indirectly) endorsing Mamdani: Maybe she's just bending with the wind, but it's good news because of the way the wind is blowing.
- I disagree. Does only the end goal matter? Or does intention also matter?
  I would argue that intent is actually more important in the long run. I could perform an act today that helps people, but if my intent wasn’t to help people, then the act will be singular. There will be no “drive” toward greater acts that help even more people. No continuous improvement. No learning from mistakes and growing. Why? Because if I don’t actually care about helping people, none of that background stuff is happening which actually moves you toward your goals in the long run
- Depends on the company, for the most part i'm with you, but if say Monsanto and Phillip Moris are backing things, it makes you ponder what you don't know and if it's a bad thing.
I'm taking the broad position that last-minute endorsements of Mamdani are just saving face for the establishment. That window closes in mid-October or so.
- Want change in the party This is how it happens. Purity tests leave you a political outsider. Welcome each endorsement and they can be reminded later.
Worse case is she's going to insincerely try to take on the appearance of a progressive
But she's just one of many figures being groomed to do this, so hopefully it just helps cement Mumdani as the spiritual leader of the party
- Nobody believes her, just like nobody believes Hilary. The constant fence-hopping goes beyond someone learning new information and switching stances, its pure opportunism, and thus not genuine.
  And honestly, her endorsing him is more a disservice in my eyes than helping him. She's performed poorly and make others think that Mumdani is not genuine by association.
- Worst case is he made a bunch of centrist concessions to get her on board, leaving him as just another establishment dem.
shes probably still looking for political career somewhere in the future, just not now.

In the most unenthusiastic way possible. But it's better than an outright rejection.

Wow look she does lean left!

Only when she's not running for anything.
Oh come on! This is just her yet again pandering to the left of the party to get votes. Why won’t she just grow a spine and standup for the values that she stood for. /s
- She knows how to get the lefts votes and she knows its not going to happen by simply half-endorsing mamdani. She has to say Israel is committing a genocide and endorse universal human rights or she has no chance in hell.
Yeah, but has she fixed her laugh though?
- Out here asking the real questions

I'm sure it was based on her deep beliefs, and not a decision made by strategists for her. We are so fucked...

Don't look a gift horse on the mouth
- When you kick that horse in front of the gift when it is trying to drink you do.
Why would she care. She could likely apply for political asylum in say France and leave the country and never have to work another day in her life. She's 60, she doesn't owe anyone anything. She won't run for president, and I doubt she wants to enter another 4 years of VP from 64-68 years old.
- Doesn't owe anyone anything? She kept prisoners in jail past their sentences to use them as slave labor. She literally owes reparations.

Isn't there overwhelming polling saying he is likely to win? Harris hitches herself to whoever is likely to win. That is her entire career.

Cynical posturing, same as hochul, but hochul's endorsement actually meams something as governor.
We should not talk about kamala or biden or anyone that forced them or hillary on us unless is to demand their ousters.
- i find hochul kinda of 2 faced, she was publically against him from the start, only changing once she realized she could be replaced in the next election.

Kamala Harris finally sees which way the wind is blowing.

Watch the whole interview, its so bad. She has terrible instincts.
Her "endorsement": I support the democrat, but there are other stars too, like <insert 2 names I literally never heard of> from other mayoral races. Just pissing on the most popular candidate in the country and taking 2 random mayors down with her, instead of "Mandami is great, and I'm really hopeful about these other guys"
She complains that "titans of industry" didn't step in to stop Trump. Her goal isn't to help the american people, but to "restore the guardrails of our institutions". Isn't her dad supposed to be a Marxist? Have they never been in a room for 5 minutes?
Turns out Newsom is as petty as you would expect, while Pelosi and Obama were so ideologically westwing-brained they were more concerned about Biden "having his moment" than actually winning.
Close friend of Trump and Epstein, Bill Clinton, seemed eager to support anyone who had a better shot than post-shitting-himself-debate Biden.
so did HOCHUL, after she deriding madami, so i think they are doing it to save face.

Some support...

We all see right through you Kamala.

Thanks for nothing Harris.

I love how what would have been mundane and not news worthy with any other candidates (democratic politicians endorsing a democratic candidate for mayoral office) now makes headlines with Mamdani. And by love I mean hate.

It’s going to be wild when he gets in and starts making decisions that are actually quite popular and seeing mainstream dems fall all over each other to claim that they were with him all along.

"Please, mum, may I have another serving of gruel?"

More? MORE?!

Why is this news? She is not an elected official. She never breached 30% approval rating as vice president before her anointation.

Wow that’s actually shocking.

She never was the dogshit that people made her out to be, it's not really that surprising in a way it would be for people like Pelosi or Chuck Shumer.
I mean it is the normal thing to endorse your party's person who won the primary, it is only a handful of real pieces of shit that are holding back on it. The problem is that those pieces of shit are highly placed in the Democratic party sadly enough.
Edit: Oof... I hadn't watched the actual video. Yeah, it's at least 30% dogshit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwt7hMaNaBQ
- Do you actually see that as an endorsement do you?

she has to, since most of the DNC sides with jefferies/schumer with israel and also the billionaires.

That's right. Bend the knee.

I think I'm stupid because I thought the race was already over.

The primary is over. The general election is in November.
So far, Mamdani is out in front by a wide margin, though. I don't want to count any chickens before they hatch, but it'd take a lot for anyone else to beat him.

Will anyone be pursued to vote for him because of Harris's endorsement?

No, but it demonstrates once again that all your "lesser evil" dems will burn the party down before they allow a real alternative to fascism.
- Harris is the lesser evil politician. And she's endorsed him.