Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ quick escalation of her political career has led her campaign to gain supporters and a lot of donations. However, accusations of her bad leadership have also resurfaced and these now prompt further questions and demands for her accountability.
According to reports, Harris has faced serious accusations of covering up radiation poisoning that allegedly affected black residents of Treasure Island, San Francisco.
Back on March 14, 2019, two former residents Felita Sample and Andre Patterson said during a press conference that Harris was complicit in concealing that radioactive waste from the construction of million-dollar residences in the California neighborhood had caused sickness and poisoning of many inhabitants, including kids and soldiers. They charged her with obstruction of justice and participating in an illegal cover-up at the radioactively polluted site.
Treasure Island was a former Navy base known for training sailors in radiological warfare. The Navy discovered over a thousand radioactive items during a cleanup operation, raising widespread safety concerns.
San Francisco politicians, including Harris, are accused of ignoring the dangers of advancing the development project. Sample spoke out against Harris, labeling her a "racketeer" and accusing her of violating the RICO Act. She said that Harris vowed to close down Treasure Island if elected to the U.S. Senate, which turned out to be unfulfilled to this date. Sample and her husband, Andre Patterson, cooperated with the "investigations" at that time and even provided Harris with detailed information about the toxic conditions on the Island through Facebook.
But they were ignored after the elections. "Once we voted her in, that was it," Sample said.
Meanwhile, Patterson, who was battling multiple cancerous tumors at the time, said that Harris initially responded to his concerns on Facebook, promising to address the issue, but, again, failed to take any action.
"It's about class. We're low income and we're black," Patterson said, lamenting that the root cause of their neglect by politicians was racism and discrimination.
The 2019 press conference was held by Tetra Tech employees who were nuclear safety and health activists who had fabricated test findings in the $1 billion eco-fraud case.
Critics are now wondering why the mainstream media did not report the "biggest eco-fraud in U.S. history." Even California elected officials Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein and Willie Brown, who aided Harris in beginning her career as the district attorney of San Francisco, participated in the cover-up.
Harris served as the California and San Francisco AG before she was elected to the U.S. Senate. (Related: Kamala Harris remains SOFT ON CRIME despite her tough-on-crime ads.)
Presidential historian spots Harris' campaign's weak spots
Allan Lichtman, an American historian who was also dubbed as the U.S. polling "Nostradamus" has identified two potential weak spots in Harris' presidential campaign.
Lichtman said in a YouTube livestream on Tuesday: "I've been saying for some time that the two foreign policy keys are shaky. I haven't made a final call on them, but they are probably the shakiest keys." He became known for his election model, referred to as the "Keys to the White House," which he has used to issue correct predictions for nine out of the last 10 presidential elections.
According to Lichtman, the 13 keys are as follows: There must be a party mandate where the incumbent party holds more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives after the midterm election than after the previous midterm elections. Another key, he said was that there is no serious contest for the incumbent party nomination and the incumbent party candidate is the sitting president.
As per his model, there should also be no significant third-party or independent campaign and that the the economy must not be in recession during the election campaign. Real per capita economic growth during the term should also equal or exceed the mean growth during the previous two terms. He also said that the incumbent administration must effect major changes in national policy. There should be no social unrest, no scandal and no foreign or military failure and the incumbent administration must achieve a major success in foreign or military affairs.
The incumbent party candidate must also be charismatic or a national hero. And the challenging party candidate is the opposite.
If six or more of these 13 true/false statements are false, the ruling party is predicted to lose the election. Should five or less be false, that party is expected to win, Lichtman said.
In his most recent livestream he referred to keys 10 and 11, or "No foreign or military failure and major foreign and military success." He told Newsweek earlier that these keys were "leaning false" for the Harris' campaign probably due to the ongoing war in Ukraine and the U.S.' stance on the Israel-Hamas war.
"I've not made a final prediction. I want to make that crystal clear because I'm often misinterpreted that way. I haven't predicted Harris to win or lose. I will make that prediction right after, likely, the Democratic Convention, but three of the four uncalled keys would have to fall [for Harris to lose]," Lichtman told the news agency.
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