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#VPOTUS: What is a 1994 San Francisco Democrat in 2024? Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution.

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🗓️ 3 August 2024

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#VPOTUS: What is a 1994 San Francisco Democrat in 2024? Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution.
https://www.hoover.org/research/enter-kamala-and-scrutiny-her-california-years

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0:00.0

This is CBS I on the World.

0:04.0

This is CBS I on the World.

0:07.0

Here's John Bachelor.

0:10.0

This is CBS I in the World. I'm John Bachelor delighted to welcome Bill Wayland

0:15.8

the Hoover Institution my longtime colleague. After that July, August has a big hill to climb to get more important but it's likely because

0:25.2

we've got a presidential race that's unpredictable and the cliche word now is

0:30.0

uncharted bill a very good evening to you the new candidate for the Democratic

0:34.4

party is a very well-known Democrat from Northern California.

0:38.9

Pamela Harris, your new column in California Dreaming, points out to the fact that

0:45.4

Camilla Harris represents routine straightforward regular

0:49.5

predictable California Democratic politics. What does that mean, Bill? Where is she in the

0:54.5

world of a U.S. politics if she's if she's she's such a good California

0:59.4

politician? Good evening to you. Good evening to you. Good evening, John. It's the same answer the question.

1:04.0

If you were a Republican from Texas, you would be to the right of the nation writ large,

1:08.0

and so as a California Democrat, she is to the left of the nation writ large.

1:12.0

And part of the challenge for her in the 90 plus days left

1:14.7

and the selection is to convince those lury voters

1:17.2

that she's not really that far left.

1:18.8

It's, you know, Kamala goes back 20 years now

1:21.9

in California politics John.

1:23.2

She first emerged on the scene as the district attorney in San Francisco City

1:27.1

slash County from 2003 until 2011.

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