Before Joe Biden and Kamala Harris sat on the same presidential card, they fought to win the Democratic primary, and in some cases, matters were heated.
It’s hardly unusual to see former primary rivals together when the presumptive nominee is elected, but their conflicts in the past are striking in light of the running mate’s announcement this week.
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Let’s roll the tape:
1. HARRIS CRITICIZES THE PRESENTATION OF PRAYER TO BUSHING IN FIRST DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY DEBATE
In what became her most memorable moment of debate, Harris challenged Biden’s opposition to federal mandate buses when he was in the Senate, telling him she benefited from the program to integrate schools. The face-off produced Harris ‘remark about That Little Girl Was Me’ which attracted widespread media attention.
2. HARRIS BLASTS PRAY FOR HYDE AMENDMENT FLIP-FLOP
Harris called Biden’s past support for the Hyde Amendment “unacceptable” in a Democratic primary debate, citing her role as a former prosecutor who has tried cases of rape and child molestation. Biden defended his plate, saying he supports a right to vote for women. Harris pressured him, asking why it took him so long to change his position on the Hyde Amendment.
During Biden’s tenure in the Senate, he had expressed support for the amendment, which bans the use of federal funds to subsidize abortions, except in cases of rape and incest or when a woman’s life is threatened.
3. HARRIS AND PRAYER CLASSES TO HEALTH CARE PLANS ON DEBATE CITY
Before Harris started a full-fledged ‘Medicare-for-all’, she advocated for it in the early primary debates, emphasizing Biden who always said that health care for one-payer would cost too much. The two talked about this problem.
“The plan, no matter how you cut it, will cost $ 3 trillion if it is, in fact, committed, number one. Ten years from now, after two terms of the senator being president, after her time. Second will the middle requires -class to go, not down. Third, it will eliminate employer insurance. And fourth, what happens in the meantime? “Biden said. Harris replied that the cost of doing nothing was too high.
4. HARRIS TELLS HER TEENAGERS OF PRAYERS ABOUT SEXUAL HAIR ASSESSMENT CLAIMS
“I believe them, and I respect that they can tell their story and have the courage to do so,” the California senator said in April 2019. Reports from Biden were then accused by a number of women of unusual touching and kissing, including others by a politician in Nevada who said he came behind her at a stop of the 2014 campaign and kissed her on the back of her head.
5. HARRIS SET OFFER SHOULDN’T USE ‘LYNCHING’ WHEN REFER TO CLINTON IMPEACHMENT
After President Trump described his impeachment process as a “lynching,” video appeared of Joe Biden using the same language to refer to then-President Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998. Harris was impressed and said it was right for Biden to apologize
