Supporters of former Vice President Joe Biden are accusing Sen. Kamala Harris of overreaching with her attacks on him over racial issues during last week's Democratic presidential debate and are saying she did not need to play "low ball."
"She played low ball, which was out of character," Lee White, a Biden supporter attending the Jesse Jackson Rainbow PUSH Coalition, told Politico. "She should not have gone that route. She's much too intelligent, she's been able to be successful thus far, why do you have to do that."
The Biden campaign still brought in $1 million in two fundraisers in San Francisco after the debate.
During the debate, Harris said Biden's efforts to work with segregationists were "hurtful" and recounted her experiences of being bused in the Berkeley school district, using the phrase "that girl was me."
One of Biden's supporters, however, said her comments were "too cute by half," as her campaign tweeted out immediately a photograph of the California senator as a young girl and started selling t-shirts with the image.
Other Biden supporters said her attacks on Biden's civil rights record were misleading, as he has been a lifelong advocate, and some called it "old news."
However, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, whose patronage of Harris helped kick off her political career — and who admitted in a San Francisco Chronicle opinion piece to dating her 20 years ago — told Politico Biden only has himself to blame for his performance.
"They better hope she would accept [a VP nomination]," he said. "Otherwise, he's a guaranteed loser. At this point, she may be the only life raft he has, because, as of this moment, he's on the Titanic."
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