U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris already has committed two pandering faux pas on the campaign trail and we’re barely into 2019. The ultra-liberal California Democrat and 2020 presidential contender looked shocked when asked about her tweet claiming that the Jussie Smollett MAGA attack (which now appears to be a hoax) was a modern-day lynching. And a family member also rebuked Harris for engaging in identity politics in connection with her new-found support of marijuana legalization.
In the very awkward clip below, Harris froze when questioned about her Smollett tweet, which even prompted criticism from Morning Joe co-host Mike Brzezinski.
According to the Trump-hating MSNBC anchor, rush-to-judgment “mob rule” by candidates and/or their social media coordinators following a Smollett-like incident is “not going to work for the Democrats” in the upcoming election.
In what could be an awkward Thanksgiving in the Harris family, the senator’s own father registered disapproval in the aftermath of a radio interview. Harris denied she was against weed legalization, joking that half of her family is from Jamaica.
In a statement to Jamaica Global Online, Prof. Donald Harris indicated that he wasn’t pleased with the flippancy.
“My dear departed grandmothers…as well as my deceased parents , must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty.”
Harris also claimed she smoked pot as a college student while listening to Snoop Dogg and Tupac.
Her timeline is apparently off because neither of those two recording artists had as yet come to prominence while Harris was at university.
Kamala Harris is presumably trying to “inoculate” herself from criticism that she is anti-pot, the latter policy position which won’t go over well in the far-left-wing base comprising Democrat primary voters.
“Harris has taken heat stateside for her new stance on legalized marijuana, which she openly opposed as California’s attorney general, when she locked up over 1,500 individuals for marijuana-related crimes,” the Washington Free Beacon explained.
