Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print ADVERTISEMENT COLUMBUS — On the heels of being on the losing side of the confirmation fight over Brett Kavanaugh, U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California was in Ohio on Sunday seeking to channel that experience into victory for Democrats in this year's midterm election. “This is an inflection moment in the history of our country. ... I think it is a moment in time requiring all of us collectively to look in the mirror and ask the question, and that question is ‘Who are we?’ And part of the answer, Ohio, is we are better than this,” she said at the Ohio Democratic Party’s dinner. Sen. Kamala Harris questions Christine Blasey Ford as she testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee. ASSOCIATED PRESS Enlarge The first-term senator and former California attorney general was in the national spotlight as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the recent Kavanaugh … [Read more...] about Sen. Kamala Harris stumps for Dems in Ohio
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Kamala Harris unloads on ‘unfit’ Kavanaugh, White House in fiery Senate floor speech
By Eric Ting, SFGATE Published 1:20 pm PDT, Friday, October 5, 2018 Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) speaks during the Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trumpís nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 4, 2018. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) less Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) speaks during the Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trumpís nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, on Capitol Hill in ... more Photo: DOUG MILLS, STF / NYT Senate Judiciary Committee member Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) (C) speaks with colleagues after a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on September 28, 2018, on the nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. - Kavanaugh's contentious Supreme Court nomination will be put … [Read more...] about Kamala Harris unloads on ‘unfit’ Kavanaugh, White House in fiery Senate floor speech
Kamala Harris will return to Wisconsin to help Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin
Bill Glauber Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 10:33 AM EDT Oct 5, 2018 U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, a California Democrat who has been mentioned as a potential presidential contender in 2020, is returning to Wisconsin later this month to help Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. On Oct. 21, Harris will appear with Baldwin at an early vote rally in Madison and a canvass kickoff in Milwaukee. Harris previously campaigned with Baldwin in June. RELATED: California Sen. Kamala Harris headlines campaign rally for Tammy Baldwin Baldwin faces Republican Leah Vukmir in the Nov. 6 election. … [Read more...] about Kamala Harris will return to Wisconsin to help Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin
Kamala Harris cancels Cincinnati NAACP plans for Kavanaugh vote
Mark Curnutte Cincinnati Enquirer Published 8:16 AM EDT Oct 5, 2018 The Cincinnati NAACP posted on its Facebook page overnight that Georgetown University sociology professor and author Michael Eric Dyson will be stepping in as keynote speaker for its Freedom Fund Dinner Saturday night. U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris was scheduled to speak but said she is remaining in Washington, D.C., to vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. More: Brett Kavanaugh confirmation: When will the Senate vote and how long will it take? The local chapter's Freedom Fund Dinner will be held Saturday, beginning at 6:30 p.m., at the Duke Energy Convention Center, Downtown. Harris' office said she would be sending prepared remarks via video. Dyson spoke in Cincinnati in 2016 at the Black Agenda event at Woodward Career Technical High School in Bond Hill. … [Read more...] about Kamala Harris cancels Cincinnati NAACP plans for Kavanaugh vote
Feinstein stayed, Kamala Harris walked. Then they voted ‘no’ on Kavanaugh
California’s two Democratic senators expressed their opposition to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in very different ways during an extraordinary Judiciary Committee hearing Friday that ended in a recommendation for full Senate approval — with one big asterisk. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a veteran of 25 years in the Senate, railed about Republicans disrespecting the Senate process about vetting nominees and witnesses — in particular, Christine Blasey Ford, the Palo Alto University psychology professor who told the panel Thursday that Kavanaugh tried to rape her at a party in the early 1980s when they were both teenagers. Then, Feinstein remained in the hearing room as other senators declared their support or opposition to Kavanaugh. Sen. Kamala Harris, a senator for less than two years, walked out of the hearing room with three other Democratic senators to protest how the Republican majority was “railroading” Kavanaugh’s nomination. A short time … [Read more...] about Feinstein stayed, Kamala Harris walked. Then they voted ‘no’ on Kavanaugh