Headline Roundup June 12, 2019

Harris Looks to Stand Out From the 2020 Pack

Presidential Elections,Kamala Harris,Impeachment,DACA,Elections

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Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), one of the first few politicians to announce their 2020 run, unveils new plans to stand out from the twenty two other candidates, this week. Headlining the policy issues are immigration and Donald Trump; Harris says that she would give her attorney general full discretion to press criminal charges against Donald Trump- while also giving DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients a path to citizenship. Harris currently sits around 10% in both national and Iowa polls, but has shown a slightly downwards trend since Biden entered the race.

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After promising start, Kamala Harris looks for ways to break through

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After promising start, Kamala Harris looks for ways to break through

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Kamala Harris has always been a trailblazer. As the daughter of immigrant parents – her mother came from India and her father from Jamaica – she was the first woman elected (twice) as California’s attorney general, and the second African American woman elected to the United States Senate, which she entered two years ago. From the moment she got there, the chattering classes began speculating about White House ambitions.

Those lofty expectations seemed justified when she launched her presidential campaign in Oakland, California, in January, drawing an enormous crowd of...

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Kamala Harris unveils immigration plan to expand deferred action, use executive action to provide pathway to citizenship

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Kamala Harris unveils immigration plan to expand deferred action, use executive action to provide pathway to citizenship

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(CNN)Sen. Kamala Harris on Wednesday announced a plan to expand the use of deferred action immigration programs as president and use executive actions to remove the threat of deportation of millions of undocumented people in the United States.

The plan, which the California Democrat is rolling out ahead of a trip to Nevada on Friday, would work within the current confines of immigration law and assumes Congress would be unable to pass immigration reform, something the body has failed to do for years. Her plan, should she be elected in...

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Kamala Harris: If elected, my DOJ would have 'no choice' but to prosecute Trump

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Kamala Harris: If elected, my DOJ would have 'no choice' but to prosecute Trump

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2020 candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., has issued a stunning warning to President Trump that seems to echo controversial recent comments from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, saying her Justice Department would likely charge him with obstruction of justice if she wins the White House.

Harris, in a newly released interview, said she believes the only reason former Special Counsel Robert Mueller did not recommend prosecuting Trump was because of the Justice Department’s policy against indicting a sitting president. Once out of office, Trump would be subject to charges -- and...

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