Will US Democrats support a WOC as their candidate or will they by pass Kamala Harris?

There has been a significant swing among black men under 30 towards the Republicans.

I suspect that there will be movement among black women voters as well - I think there has been some already - but not as many, just like women of other races are more likely to support progressive political parties, gender ideology, and identity politics generally.

Do we really need to reduce Harris to her sex and race? It might be nice to talk about her as if she were a real person who has all kinds of qualities.

From that perspective, I suspect they will pass. She's not especially well thought of as a political figure, even before she was given the rather fraught immigration brief. She's not all that popular even among moderate Democrats, and she has a reputation as a bully. Biden did her no favours by making it clear she was an affirmative action appointment either.

Given Biden has endorsed Harris, I think you need to check where you read.

I know every electoral system has its strengths and weaknesses, but what astounds me about the American system is that it is still set up for a country where travel was by horse drawn carriage and communication by letters travelling the same way. It’s why there is an electoral college and over two months between the election and the President taking office, to allow the state representatives to the electoral college to come together and elect the president, and for him to go to DC.

My American friend marvels that European countries call elections within weeks and the new government starts work the day after the results are known. I presume it’s a Constitutional thing again where it would be too hard to change, and everyone is too used to being on permanent election footing with a new president starting his campaign for reelection the day after his inauguration.

It would be impossible to have anyone else at this point. A lot of groups would be angry at her being passed over for a start, and there's no process to pick anyone new. Hillary Clinton had a specific disadvantage above and beyond being a woman: she'd been trashed by the news media for 25 years. It effectively came down to 75,000 votes in 3 states. It is far, far from a done deal for Trump.

The party is pretty much falling in line. Obama and Pelosi have yet to endorse, but some big figures have. They'll be searching hard for the VP slot.

This is just because I have never got over the fact that Clinton got more actual votes than Trump but didn't get to be President.

That can happen in the UK too. Conservative constituencies tended to vote more unanimously for their MP whereas Labour constituencies were closer. (Not the last election though). So the Tories would get more votes but fewer MPs.

She won the popular vote by 3 million.
Trump didnt, he won the electoral college vote.

She is his vice president. How can he say he has confidence in her as his VP and someone who can take over as president should he be incapacitated, and then suggest someone would make a better president? There was no choice for Biden on that.

Hillary Clinton, with all her accomplishments, achievements, and had lived in the White House for two terms previously couldn't get elected President over Trump (I'm aware she got more individual votes).

There is no way on earth that Americans will vote in an Asian-African-American woman over Trump. Since Kamala Harris been VP she's been invisible on the world stage, yet when Hillary was Secretary of State under Obama, she was everywhere!

I heard George Clooney's name being whispered as the Democrat candidate. I don't know anything about what his knowledge of politics is, but I'm not sure that matters!

I think that they’ll pick Harris because picking anyone else (even another WOC) will make the party look bad for not following unspoken rules like VP being the nominee after POTUS.
I know that Trump is hoping to go up against Harris and I think he’s going to win.

They need to do it that way or else the states cannot put the nominee's name on the voting ballot.

They really have fucked themselves.

Biden hasn’t been endorsed by the Democrat Congress yet, that’s next month. Trump was just endorsed by the Republican one (scary MAGA people wearing ear bandages)

It seems to be a choice of horrors in the US for women.

This is the bottom line, isn’t it? Harris is perceived as being in thrall to gender identity ideology, but is perceived to be very strongly pro-choice regarding women’s reproductive rights.

Trump is perceived as the reverse, and/or a man who will say and do anything to get re-elected, and who will shit on women anyway.

Biden endorsed Harris very quickly, so not sure where you read that.

I read that neither Biden nor Obama are backing Kamala and that the choice was down to the govener of california or michigan, as apparently they have the best chance of beating Trump

And Hilary Clinton was Hilary frickin Clinton. She was an enigma on par with Trump. Kamala isn't even close to having Hilary's presence and command.

Given that Hilary Clinton won the popular vote and the Electoral College made sure Trump got in, I don't see Harris having any chance. I'm glad Biden's not running, but the Democrats have probably thrown the election away regardless. It seems to be a choice of horrors in the US for women.

Apparently, if she runs they can use the money they've already raised because she was standing jointly with Biden. If they change candidates they can't use the money. So my bet is she'll be the chosen one. She'll need a running mate though.

I was speaking to an American friend last week, she lives in South Carolina. Although she is a Democrat her opinion is that America as a nation just isn’t ready to elect any woman as president, regardless of her ethnicity.

I agree that whether potential swing voters will support Harris herself will matter, of course.

Supporting Haley over Trump doesn't really make them swing voters between parties, though.

I mean, some might well be. But it's not quite the same thing.