Khizr Khan, the father of a slain Muslim Army captain who gained national attention by pointedly criticizing former President Donald Trump during the Democratic National Convention in 2016, announced in an exclusive interview with NBC News that he is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign and plans to act as a campaign surrogate for her.

In 2016, Khan denounced Trump’s treatment of Muslims and other minorities while holding a pocket-sized U.S. Constitution and challenging Trump to read the document. In his interview with NBC News on Saturday, Khan said Trump has “gotten worse” and that he fears the former president will become a dictator and end democracy as Americans know it.

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    Harris Walz support a lot of the same things the Republicans do

    Trump and Walz even teamed up to give police more funding to forcibly remove oil pipeline protesters

    more war funding, more police funding, more funding to restrict our borders, no plan to improve workers’ rights, no plans for universal healthcare, no raising the minimum wage, no plans to care for our planet better

    https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FINAL-MASTER-PLATFORM.pdf

    https://www.gop.com/press-release/icymi-rnc-platform-committee-adopts-2024-republican-party-platform/

    wording is different but the meanings are clear and very much alike

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      ^ check this guy’s history and decide whether he’s got an axe to grind, and maybe a Lada to earn.

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        10 months ago

        Democrats are as allergic to factual information as the Republicans are

        anything that shatters the Democrat fantasy must be some Russian paid troll thing tied to the Republicans

        Republicans have a similar bitch with different wording but again meaning is the same

        both parties support elections based on showmanship, hot air, and fluff without any progressive goals that would benefit the people

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          You say all that and manage to miss that R doesnt just not have progressive goals, it has regressive goals. This is you right now: “hey everyone, Democats are as bad (or.maybe worse cause we dont know everything they are lying about) as the republicans. You shouldn’t participate in national politics.” Literally everyone knows Harris and waltz are liars. You’re not bringing anything helpful to the table here, and it just makes you sound… Well… Stupid. Sometimes the “w” is just “fine let’s at least try to get abortion rights in the constitution” ormaybe “yay the people that PUBLISHED their plan to destroy the constitution and prop up project 2025 didn’t get voted in!”