Kamala Harris campaign raises $268m in her first week of run for US president
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What the Kamala Harris ‘coconut tree’ meme foreshadows about our political future
Politics tamfitronics When President Joe Biden announced his departure from the 2024 presidential race and his endorsement of Kamala Harris last week, it didn’t take long for videos of the vice president to start trending on social media.A video of Harris dancing with a group of children resurfaced from years ago. The TikTok, posted by The Daily Mail, reached over 28 million views and was captioned on screen, “Kamala Harris on her way to White House:????Perhaps the most viral Harris video has been the “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree” moment, which originated from Harris’ May 2023 speech about advancing opportunities for Hispanic Americans. The coconut and tree emoji now symbolize Harris’ campaign, expressing a certain goofiness, but also an excitement about Harris as the clear front-runner for the Democratic presidential...
Kamala Harris narrows gap with Donald Trump in polls from her first week
Politics tamfitronics The Wall Street Journal poll found similar shifts, accounting for a surge in Democratic enthusiasm. (Photo: Bloomberg)By Gregory KorteThe polling is in, and Kamala Harris has narrowed the gap with Donald Trump.Taken together, seven national polls taken since Harris launched her presidential bid Sunday after Joe Biden’s exit from the race have cut the Democrats’ deficit about in half. Some closely watched polls — including a Wall Street Journal poll on Friday — have her in a statistical tie with the former president.A New York Times/Siena poll on Thursday found that Harris had closed the gap by 6 or 7 percentage points, depending on whether third parties are included.Harris’ gain comes largely from parts of the Democratic coalition that had soured on Biden. While the 81-year-old president was winning just 59 per cent...
Kamala Harris’ heritage draws attention to Hinduism’s complex history in Caribbean
Top Stories Tamfitronics (RNS) — A standard feature in any biography of Kamala Harris is the fact her parents — one a Hindu from India, the other a Baptist from Jamaica — met at the University of California, Berkeley, where they were both students in the 1960s.In this sense the vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee embodies a heritage shared by millions across the Caribbean basin and the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, many of whom are now talking about the sudden possibility that the next U.S. president could be of Indian and Jamaican heritage, and a person who claims to “know the lyrics to nearly every Bob Marley song” to this day.Indians first came in numbers to the Caribbean in the early 19th century, when the British Empire brought them west as indentured servants, mostly to the...